The 4 th Norwegian Conference of History of Science November University of Oslo

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1 The 4 th Norwegian Conference of History of Science November 2011

2 Contents Contents... 2 Organizers... 3 Theme... 4 Programme... 5 Venues Map Participants

3 Organizers The 4th Norwegian Conference of History of Science will take place at the from November The previous Norwegian conferences on the history of science were organized in Oslo in 2008, in Tromsø in 2009 and in Trondheim in The first conference was supported by the National Research Council (Forskningsrådet). Conference Organizer: Vidar Enebakk / vidar.enebakk@iakh.uio.no / Forum for University History Faculty of Humanities, Conference Coordinator: Magnus Lysberg / lysberg@gmail.com/ Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture Faculty of Social Sciences, Programme Committee: Kristin Asdal / kristin.asdal@tik.uio.no Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture Faculty of Social Sciences, Brita Brenna / b.s.brenna@ikos.uio.no Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages Faculty of Humanities, Vidar Enebakk / vidar.enebakk@iakh.uio.no Forum for University History Faculty of Humanities, Christoph Gradman / christoph.gradmann@medisin.uio.no Institute of Health and Society Faculty of Medicine, 3

4 Theme Geographies and the History of Science In this year's conference we want to develop a common theme around the geographies of scientific knowledge and skills. The last decades have seen a great interest in questions about where science is done, how scientific ideas and practices travel, and in what sense different sciences help redefine geographies. For small countries and small scientific communities the notion of being "peripheral" once seemed like a good tool for explaining the development, or lack of development, of science. Today we can no longer do with this simple geographical notion as a cause, but need to approach it as a phenomenon to be investigated. We would like to discuss and address questions about how scientific knowledge is made local or peripheral, what sites are made into centers and which localities rendered peripheral. Which scientific endeavors are more localized and which are more at home in networks. We are also eager to engage with questions about how theories, methods and instruments travel, who make them travel and in what sense, and how they are accommodated and appropriated in new settings. Finally, we should problematize power relations and constrains to circulation, including questions of ownership, authority and exclusion. Our hunch is that different disciplines have different geographies and different modes of travel, and our hope is that contributions to this conference together can paint a more vivid map of the geographies of sciences in (and elsewhere) through our collaborative efforts. The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. 4

5 Programme SUNDAY 20/11 Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology and Medicine 18:00 Registration / Drinks reception and standing buffet. 18:45 Formal opening : Vidar Enebakk. 19:00 Welcome address: Hans Weinberger. 19:15 Plenary Lecture: Lissa L. Roberts (Twente), Geographies of Chemistry in the Late Eighteenth Century. 19:45 Museum Exhibition: Henrik Treimo introducing Mind Gap. MONDAY 21/11 Library, Blindern Campus, Georg Sverdrups hus Registration and Coffee Plenary Lecture: Otto Sibum (Uppsala and Berlin), Knowledge and Science. The Historical Geography of a Scientific Fact. SESSION a) NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Anne Helness (Oslo), Early modern travel writing. Thomas Østerhaug (Oslo), The curious way to observe weight in Water : Francisd Bacon, Thomas Harriot and specific gravity. Anders Rydberg (Uppsala), Christian Wolff and the ambivalence of experience. Ernst H. Bjerke (Oslo), A Wanderer Above the Mist: B.M. Keilhau and the Romantic movement. 5

6 b) ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Peder Anker (New York), The sustainable society: A history of science as a vacation. Jenny Beckman (Uppsala), Making lists, making borders: Threatened species and Nordic relations. Robert Kirk (Manchester) and Tone Druglitrø (Oslo), Communicating with care: Scientific standards and moral values in the transnational development of laboratory animal science, c Roland Wittje (Regensburg), Geographies of sound: Acoustics in the interwar period Lunch. SESSION a) LIFE SCIENCES Anne Kveim Lie (Oslo), Naming and mapping diseases in the 18 th century. Francis Lee (Linköping) and Jenny Beckman (Uppsala), Mapping life, representing science. Edgeir Benum (Oslo), Geography and the DNA-story b) HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY Anders Lundgren (Uppsala), Smell and taste in the history of chemistry: Textbooks and laboratories in the end of the 19th century. Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Anette Lykknes (Trondheim), Ida and Walter Noddack through better and worse: An Arbeitsgemeinschaft in chemistry. Katarina Larsen (Stockholm) and Maja Fjaestad (Stockholm), Science laboratories and geographies of technology. A study of measurement techniques and international citation of Nobel laureates Short break / Coffee. 6

7 SESSION a) HISTORY OF MEDICINE (Part I) Dagmar Zadrazilova (Cambridge), The geography of early medical studies: Travelling knowledges, images and practices between Italy and England. Hilde Norrgren (Oslo), Life and healing in medicine and gold making. Stephan Curtis (Canada), The dissemination of continental European medicine into nineteenth-century. Mónica García (Columbia), Between the local and the universal: medical geography and bacteriology in nineteenth-century Colombia b) POLAR HISTORY Einar Arne Drivenes (Tromsø), Inventing polar nations. Politics and science in the Arctic. Kari Aga Myklebost (Tromsø), Norwegian-Russian cross border scientific networks in arctic research. Terje Brundtland (Tromsø), About men and instruments: The Norwegian Auroral Expedition to the Arctic, Aant Elzinga (Gothenburg), Roald Amundsen: Explorer, reflective practioner and facilitator of science CONFERENCE DINNER Fram Museum, Bygdøy. Organized transport. 7

8 TUESDAY 22/11 The National Library, Solli plass Coffee Plenary Lecture: Anne Hardy (London), Crossing Continents: Scientific exchange, microbial migration and salmonella communities, c SESSION a) HISTORY OF MEDICINE (Part II) Svein Alte Skålevåg (Bergen), Prostitutionology. Kerstin Bornholdt (Oslo), The geographies of female medical knowledge production: Medical Women s International Association. Magnus Vollset (Bergen), Circulating leprosy. Øyvind Thomassen (Trondheim), Goodbye to biology b) OCEANOGRAPHY AND METEOROLOGY Gunnar Ellingsen (Bergen), The place and depth of new scientific methods. Measuring ocean current before Staffan Bergwik (Uppsala), Home and away, mimicry and travelling: Hans Petterson and the transferring of oceanography. Peder Roberts (Strasbourg), An opportunity, but also a curse? Hans Petterson and the geopolitics of oceanography, Janet Martin-Nielsen (Aarhus), At war with nature: Scientific knowledge, military strategy and Arctic geography Lunch 8

9 SESSION ) PLENARY SYMPOSIUM: Large scale programmes in history of science: Some Swedish considerations a. Sven Widmalm (Uppsala), Lessons from the VTI-project ( ), an early example of big history of science in. b. Christer Norlund (Umeå), The fuel of the future? A research programme on the science, technology and selling of biofuels in. c. Johan Kärnfelt (Gothenburg), Science and modernization in : An institutional approach to historicizing the knowledge society. d. Thomas Kaiserfeld (Lund), Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as collaboration across boundaries Short break / Coffee SESSION a) NORWEGIAN NATURE Torild Gjesvik (Oslo), A Norwegian Sublime? Marie-Theres Fojuth (Berlin), Mapping the Mountains: Railway Politics and Geographical Knowledge in the Norwegian Parliament Jon R. Kyllingstad (Oslo), Geophysics and biology in a fishing nation. 6b) MATHEMATICS AND MAGNETISM Andreas Christiansen (Stord/Haugesund), A controversy about geometry textbooks in Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (Kristiansand), 75 years after Oslo 1936: The first International Congress of Mathematicians in Scandinavia. Vidar Enebakk (Oslo), Christopher Hansteen and the Mapping of Terrestrial Magnetism. 9

10 Venues 1) Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology and Medicine, Kjelsås The opening of the conference on Sunday 20 th November will take place at the Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology and Medicine (Norsk Teknisk Museum) which is located at Kjelsås just north of the city centre. It can easily be reached by train from Oslo S. (Oslo Central Station). The train departing at 17:47 will arrive at Kjelsås 18:00 in due time for registration, reception and the formal opening. There is a returning train from Kjelsås to Oslo at 20:42. Check out the timetables for the railway services here: nsb.no/timetables. 2) The Library, Blindern The first full day of the conference, on Monday 21 st November, will take place at the Library at the Blindern Campus in Georg Sverdrups Building. The campus can easily be reached from the city center by the westbound Metro (T-bane) No. 3, 4 or 5. Check out the timetables for the Metro services here: trafikanten.no. 3) The Fram Museum, Bygdøy The conference dinner on Monday 21 st November is at the Fram Museum at the Bygdøy peninsula west of the center. Transport will be organized together directly from the National Library. Polar environment: Bring warm clothes! 4) The National Library, Solli The final day of the conference, Tuesday 22 nd November, will take place at the National Library at Solli in central Oslo. 10

11 Map ) The Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology and Medicine, Kjelsås. 2) The Library, Blindern. 3) The Fram Museum, Bygdøy. 4) The National Library, Solli. 11

12 Participants Anker, Peder New York University USA Asdal, Kristin Beckman, Jenny Uppsala University Benum, Edgeir Bergwik, Staffan Uppsala University Bjerke, Ernst Hugo Blazevic, Dunja University of Bergen Bornholdt, Kerstin University College Telemark Brenna, Brita Brundtland, Terje University of Tromsø 12 Børresen, Anne Kristine Norwegian University of Science and Technology Christiansen, Andreas Stord/Haugesund University College Collett, John Peter Curtis, Stephan Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada Drivenes, Einar-Arne University of Tromsø Druglitrø, Tone Ellingsen, Gunnar University of Bergen Elzinga, Aant University of Gothenburg Enebakk, Vidar Fjæstad, Maja The Royal Institute of Technology

13 Fojuth, Marie-Theres Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Friedman, Robert Marc Garcia, Monica Universidad del Rosario Colombia Gjesvik, Torild Gradmann, Christoph Grandin, Karl Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hardy, Anne London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine United Kingdom Helness, Anne Norge Kaiserfeld, Thomas Lund University Kirk, Robert University of Manchester United Kindom Kristiansen, Thorleif Aass Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne Kärnfelt, Johan University of Gothenburg Larsen, Katarina The Royal Institute of Technology Lie, Anne Kveim Lundgren, Anders Uppsala University Lykknes, Annette Norwegian University of Science and Technology Martin-Nielsen, Janet Aarhus University Danmark Myklebost, Kari Aga University of Tromsø Nordlund, Christer Umeå University Norrgrén, Hilde Nygaard, Pål Oslo and Akershus University College 13

14 Reinertsen, Hilde Roberts, Lissa University of Twente Netherlands Roberts, Peder University of Strasbourg France Rydberg, Andreas Uppsala University Røtnes, Eivind Magnus Sibum, H. Otto Uppsala University Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard University of Agder Skålevåg, Svein Atle University of Bergen Thomassen, Øyvind Norwegian University of Science and Technology Vollset, Magnus University of Bergen Widmalm, Sven Uppsala University Wittje, Roland University of Regensburg Germany Zadrazilova, Dagmar University of Cambridge United Kingdom Østerhaug, Thomas 14