Conference schedule

Please note that all times refer to Central European Summer Time (CEST)

T = Thematic Session / S = Symposium

Pdf versions of the full list of Symposia and Thematic Sessions

Monday 31 August

9.00 - 12.00 - ESHS Council Meeting

12.00 - 13.00 - Centaurus Mentoring Program (led by Koen Vermeir)

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14.00 - 15.00 - Conference Welcome and Program Presentation

15.00 - 15.20 - Neuenschwander Prize Lecture

Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens)

The Sisyphean fate of historians of science

Chair: Erwin Neuenschwander

15.20 - 15.40 - Plenary Lecture ESHS President

Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens)

History of Science and its Interlocutors in the Humanities

Chair: Ana Simões

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16.00 - 16.30 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 1

Clara Florensa (University Autonoma of Barcelona)

Agnotology, epistemologies of ignorance, and invisibilisation studies in the history of science

Chair: Ezio Vaccari

16.30 - 17.00 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 2

Paolo Savoia (University of Bologna)

Checking the Surface: Vernacular Science, Everyday Knowledge, and Observation in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Toni Malet

17.00 - 17.30 - Early Career Scholar Lecture 3

Sietske Fransen (Biblioteca Hertziana)

Media Changes and Early Modern Visual Cultures of Science

chair: Elena Canadelli

17.30 - 18.30 - Early Career Network Working Group (led by Matthieu Husson)

Tuesday 1 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual rooms opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: T4 - Museums and Collections

Room 2: S40 - Picturing health under tropical medicine lens

Room 3: S39 - High speed films, animated gears, blinking cells, flat spheres: sensory and epistemic cultures of science and technology

Room 4: S23 - Universities and Their Cities. Visual Traces of Universities and Scholars in University Cities across Eras - 1

Room 5: S9 - The changing relation between visual representations and theoretical frameworks: tables, diagrams, plots, and drawings in the history of physics and astronomy - 1. Early modern astronomy

Room 6: S75 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century – 1

Room 7: S26 - Spaces of Visual Epistemology

Room 8: S15 - Marginalising or expanding personal experiences of nature? On the (loss of) authority of field research in 20th century geophysical sciences

Room 9: S71 - How to create a new scientific school? On some international contacts and collaboration of mathematicians and logicians in the first half of 20th century

Room 10: S56 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 1

Room 11: S20 - Visualizing and Modelling Sensory Actions (VMSA) for Inquiring Science & Technology into History - 1

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: S1- Mobile Materials: Mutable Meanings and Knowledge Modulation - 1

Room 2: S41 - Soviet-French links in genetics

Room 3: S8 - Quantification of Taste – Food and Drink as Matters of Science

Room 4: S13 - Teaching science with light projection: regimes of vision in the classroom, 1880-1940 - 1

Room 5: S10 - The changing relation between visual representations and theoretical frameworks: tables, diagrams, plots, and drawings in the history of physics and astronomy - 2. Twentieth century physics and astrophysics

Room 6: S76 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 2

Room 7: S7 - An University style: appearance and image of Russian universities and their inhabitants of different epochs

Room 8: S25 - Historicizing climate futures: representational politics and public imaginaries

Room 9: T3 - Mathematics, Education and Arts

Room 10: S57 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 2

Room 11: S16 - Contextualizing mechanism in twentieth century biology: visual and material cultures of description, narrative, and cooperation

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13.45 - 15.45

Room 1: S2 - Mobile Materials: Mutable Meanings and Knowledge Modulation – 2

Room 2: S3 - Learning by Doing and Doing to Learn: Skills, Texts and the Materiality of Surgical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - 1

Room 3: T12 - Medicine and Society

Room 4: T22 - Cosmology

Room 5: S54 - Popular Representation / Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories - 1

Room 6: S46 - Material culture in the positioning of national science in Ibero-America: natural history museums, scientific cabinets and educational institutions - 1

Room 7: S79 - Secretaries of Knowledge: Scribal Helpers and Social Visibility in the Worlds of Scholarship, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries

Room 8: S19 - Sensory and Material Economies in early Fossil Capitalism

Room 9: S84 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 1

Room 10: S58 - Visual, Material and Political Cultures of Zoological Gardens - 3

Room 11: S28 - The nature of scientific discovery in the chemical sciences - 1

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16.00 - 18.00

Room 1: S32 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 1

Room 2: S6 - Neither “Lowly,” nor “Soft”: How Taste Produces Knowledge, Makes Expertise, and Forms Identities

Room 3: S30 - Vegetal inferences: A sociology of plant science

Room 4: S67 - Media of Science

Room 5: S55 - Popular Representation / Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories - 2

Room 6: S87 - Cultures of expeditionary science: Exploring the role of scientific expeditions in scientific knowledge production, (geo)political struggles and popular imaginaries in the 20th and 21st centuries

Room 7: S35 - Visual Culture of Amateurs in Science (1850–1950)

Room 8: S37 - Paper, Metal, Glass: Material Reproduction in Pre-Modern Science

Room 9: S85 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 2

Room 10: S29 The nature of scientific discovery in the chemical sciences - 2

Room 11: Documentary "The Decision. Edoardo Amaldi and science without borders", followed by a round table with Ugo Amaldi (CERN, TERA Foundation), John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Luciano Maiani (Emeritus Professor Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Adele La Rana (University of California Riverside, USA).

Wednesday 2 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual rooms opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: S77 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 3

Room 2: S52 - Sight, Touch and the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Medicine

Room 3: T10 - Supernatural and Criminology

Room 4: S62 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 1. Scientific Images and International Rivalry

Room 5: T17 - Cartography

Room 6: S36 - New transnational perspectives on 20th-century organismic biology

Room 7: T11 - Modern Biomedicine

Room 8: T18 - Earth Sciences and Geography

Room 9: T29 - Measurements

Room 10: S43 - A Visual Story of the Invisible. Toxicants Revealed

Room 11: T14 - Chemistry

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: S47 - Material culture in the positioning of national science in Ibero-America: natural history museums, scientific cabinets and educational institutions - 2

Room 2: S81 - Rare diseases and visual practices: from medical collections to self-representation

Room 3: S61 - I Spy With My Little Eye: Visualizing Science in Early Modern Europe

Room 4: S63 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 2. Visualizing Environmental Crisis

Room 5: T20 - Nuclear Energy and Particles Physics

Room 6: T16 - Environmental studies

Room 7: S42 - Views from the periphery: visual, material, and sensory cultures of science in early modern Scotland

Room 8: S72 - How can the description of visual and material practices contribute to a better understanding of scientific cultures? - 1 Mathematical cultures

Room 9: S82 - Envisioning Mathematics - 1. Conjectural Imagery

Room 10: S17 - Acting with Images and Objects: The Political Epistemology of Mobile Atomic Exhibitions - 1

Room 11: S53 - Gardens-Laboratories in Early Modern Botany, Chemistry, and Physiology

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13.45 - 15.10

Room 1: S49 - Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science as a crossroad between histories of displays and displays of histories - 1 Exhibitions and Teaching

Room 2: T13 - Medicine and Technology

Room 3: S14 - Teaching science with light projection: regimes of vision in the classroom, 1880-1940 - 2

Room 4: S64 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 3. The symbolic power of scientific images in international spaces

Room 5: T2 - Galilean Studies

Room 6: S11 - Calculating Tool, Diagram and Algorithm in the Ancient Eastern and Western Mathematics - 1

Room 7: S33 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 2

Room 8: S59 - Scientific landscape: the global and the local

Room 9: S78 - Internationalism, Nationalism and Localism. Images and Places of Mathematics in Europe from Napoleon to the Wars of the Twentieth Century - 4

Room 10: S18 - Acting with Images and Objects: The Political Epistemology of Mobile Atomic Exhibitions - 2

Room 11: T6 - Zoology and Entomology

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15.25 - 16.45

Room 1: S50 - Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science as a crossroad between histories of displays and displays of histories -2. Future Exhibitions

Room 2: S21 - Visualizing and Modelling Sensory Actions (VMSA) for Inquiring Science & Technology into History - 2

Room 3: S24 - Universities and Their Cities. Visual Traces of Universities and Scholars in University Cities across Eras - 2

Room 4: S65 - Diplomacy and Images in Science - 4. Images and the science of empire

Room 5: T21 - Scientific Instruments

Room 6: S12 - Calculating Tool, Diagram and Algorithm in the Ancient Eastern and Western Mathematics - 2

Room 7: S34 - Hybrid ontologies: the circulation of visual cultures, gender, and expert communities - 3

Room 8: S27 - Layers of history: From the coast to the mantle in Mediterranean science

Room 9: S86 - Visual and Material Cultures in the Mathematics of the Ancient World - 3

Room 10: S4 - Learning by Doing and Doing to Learn: Skills, Texts and the Materiality of Surgical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe - 2

Room 11: S70 - Material Transformations: Chemical Knowledge and the Production of European Porcelain, c. 1708-1820

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17.00 - 18.30

Round Table The Digital Life of Objects and Images: Challenges and Perspectives for the History of Science, chaired by Elena Canadelli (University of Padua), with Jessica Bradford (Science Museum, London), Paolo Galluzzi (Museo Galileo, Florence), Massimo Mazzotti (University of California, Berkeley), Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge), Laura Ronzon (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan), Dagmar Schäfer (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

Thursday 3 September

Symposia & Thematic Sessions

(access to Microsoft Teams virtual rooms opens 15 minutes before starting time)

9.00 - 11.00

Room 1: S60 - Visualizing Races. Practices, tools and objects in the depiction of human diversity since the late 19th Century

Room 2: T24 - Agriculture and Genetics

Room 3: S45 - Re-Mediating Science: The material projection of knowledge from 2D to 3D

Room 4: T7 - Sciences and New Worlds

Room 5: S69 - From Places to Milieus of Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Savant Practices

Room 6: T27 - Geometry and Algebra

Room 7: S31 - Visualizing the history of knowledge: Methods and epistemic implications of digital humanities' visual techniques

Room 8: S91 - From technical practice to the visual representation of the features of the Earth: travels, tools, fieldwork - 1

Room 9: T30 - Psychology and Epistemology

Room 10: T15 - Scientific Communication

Room 11: S74 - Greco-Roman Science in Dialogue with Culture Representations, Materials, Sensations and Feasts

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11.15 - 13.15

Room 1: T26 - Archaeology and Material Culture

Room 2: S94 - Libraries and Archives in the History of Sciences

Room 3: T25 - Scientific Travels

Room 4: T5 - Scientific Institutions

Room 5: T23 - Astronomy and Astrophysics

Room 6: T28 - Mathematics

Room 7: S80 - The international scientific conference: a visual, material and sensory history

Room 8: S92 - From technical practice to the visual representation of the features of the Earth: travels, tools, fieldwork - 2

Room 9: T19 - Scientific Education

Room 10: S89 - Is historical epistemology a political epistemology? The case of knowledge from below

Room 11: S66 - Arabo-Islamic Science & the Manipulation of Nature

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13.45 - 15.45

Room 1: S44 - Aesthetic representations of scientific knowledge

Room 2: T9 - Renaissance and Early Modern Medicine

Room 3: S48 - A Scientific Encounter: Artists responding to and engaging with research collections and museum objects

Room 4: S90 - Sensory experience in early-modern scientific writing

Room 5: S68 - The practice of geometry in medieval Alfonsine astronomy

Room 6: S83 - Envisioning Mathematics - 2. Artistic Imagery

Room 7: T1 - Sciences and Visual Arts

Room 8: S22 - Color Charts as Trading Zones between Science and Art 1500-1800

Room 9: S93 - Medialities of natural knowledge in 18th century Europe: herbaria, notes, illustrations

Room 10: S73 - How can the description of visual and material practices contribute to a better understanding of scientific cultures? - 2. Scientific cultures

Room 11: T8 - Medical Displacements

16.00 - 19.00

ESHS General Assembly and Closing of the Conference