Aktuality

Conference "Universities in Central Europe" - Programme

Pondělí, 11 Červenec 2011 18:48

Programme of the Conference „Universities in Central Europe -
Crossroads of Scholars from All Over the World“

Thursday, 29 September 2011 /Karolinum, Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1/

14.00-20.00 Registration

15.00-17.00 Annual Meeting of the Officers and Scientific Board of European Society for the History of Science (Karolinum, room above Aula, 2nd floor)

18.00-20.00 Welcome Drink – Karolinum; Welcome Speeches

Friday, 30 September 2011 /Karolinum, Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1/

8.00-18.00 Registration

9.00 Introduction

9.30-10.00 Keynote Lecture - Petr SVOBODNÝ (Charles University in Prague)

10.00-10.30 Keynote Lecture - Dieter HOFFMANN – Jürgen RENN (MPI History of Science, Berlin), Einstein and Prague

10.30- 10.50 Coffee Break

Part 1: Albert Einstein I - Biographical Context

10.50–11.10 Alena ŠOLCOVÁ (Czech Technical University in Prague), Einstein in Prague

11.10-11.30 Emilie TĚŠÍNSKÁ (Academy of Sciences of the CR, Prague), Representation of the field of theoretical physics at Prague Universities: A. Einstein in Prague, his predecessors, successors and contemporaries

11.30-11.50 Andreas KLEINERT (Martin Luther University Halle), Anton Lampa (1868-1938) - the man who brought Einstein to Prague

11.50 – 12.10 Barbara WOLFF (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel), Eduard Einstein

12.10-12.30 Ze´ev ROSENKRANZ (Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena, USA), Albert Einstein: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast?

12.30-12.50 Thomas NAUMANN (DESY Zeuthen, Germany), Der Alte würfelt nicht – Einstein’s Dialogue with God

Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Part 2: Albert Einstein II - Scientific Context

14.00-14.20 Arne SCHIRRMACHER (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), From Prague to Nauheim: Philipp Lenards Acquaintance with Relativity and his 1920 Dispute with Einstein

14.20-14.40 Jeroen VAN DONGEN (University Utrecht, the Netherlands), Identifications and Misidentifications: Einstein's Special Professorship in Leiden and the Revolutions of Weimar Germany

14.40-15.00 Michal KOKOWSKI (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland), The Divergent Histories of Bose-Einstein Statistics

15.00-15.20 Hubert GOENNER (University Göttingen, Germany), Communication and Interaction among Research Groups in Classical Unified Field Theory, 1930-1969

Discussion

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-18.00 Plenary Session – Mobility of Scholars I

16.00-16.20 Erwin NEUENSCHWANDER (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Zurich as a Springboard for Young Leading Physicists and Mathematicians in the19th and 20th century: The Case of Albert Einstein and Hermann Weyl

16.20–16.40 Christof AICHNER – Tanja KRALER (University of Innsbruck, Austria), The Reforms of the Austrian Education System 1848–1860

16.40-17.00 Éva VÁMOS (Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport Budapest, Hungary), Forced Migration of Professors from 1851 to the 1860s, its Drawback and Results

17.00-17.20 Jan SURMAN (University of Vienna, Austria), “Sentenced to Chernivtsi, Pardoned to Graz, Promoted to Vienna”? The Mobility of University Lecturers within Habsburg-Monarchy 1848-1918

Discussion

19.00 - 22.00 Conference Dinner and Social Event

(Academy of Sciences of the CR, Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Praha 6)

Soňa ŠTRBÁŇOVÁ – Antonín KOSTLÁN (Academy of Sciences of the CR) , Exile as a Forced Migration – the Case of Scholars in the 20th Century

Discussion

Saturday, 1 October 2011 /Karolinum, Ovocný trh 5, Prague 1/

9.00-12.00 Registration

9.30-10.00 Keynote Lecture - Mitchell G. ASH

10.00-11.30 Plenary Session – Mobility of Scholars II

10.00-10.20 Efthymios NICOLAIDIS (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece), The Creation of a European Science Curriculum: The Case of Greek Scholars in Central Europe Universities, 18th – 19th Century

10.20-10.40 Attila Szilárd TAR (Krúdy Gyula Gimnázium Györ, Hungary), The Visiting Habits of Hungarian Students at German Universities in the 18th Century

10.40-11.00 Andor MÉSZÁROS (Faculty of Humanities, Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary), Students from Hungary at the Prague Universities from the Age of the Enlightenment until 1918

11.00-11.20 Emília VAZ GOMES - Augusto FITAS (Centro de Estudos de História da Ciencia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Portugese Science Scholars Visiting Europe at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Discussion

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.30 Plenary Session – Visiting Professors

12.00-12.20 Maria Teresa BORGATO (University of Ferrara, Italy), The Jesuit Caspar Ságner and his Influence in Natural Philosophy Teaching in Italy

12.20-12.40 László MOLNÁR (Archives uf Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary), Two Cases, Two Eras: Jan Nepomuk Czermak and Borisz V. Petrovszkij

12.40-13.00 Felicitas SEEBACHER (Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria), „Sons of Scientia Chirurgica“. Theodor Billroth's Influence over his Assistant Physicians and its Implications in Europe

13.00-13.20 Jiří ŠOUŠA (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), Czech Agricultural Science and the Transfer of Professional Ideas. (Professor Vladislav Brdlík between Žirovnice – Wroclaw – Prague – Akron /USA/)

Discussion

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-17.00 Plenary Session – Mobility of Scholars III

15.00-15.20 Fabio BEVILACQUA (University of Pavia, Italy), Pavia Perspectives on Scientific Prague

15.20-15.40 Katalin SIMON (Budapest City Archives, Hungary), The Faculty of Medicine in Pest and the Habsburg Empire in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

15.40-16.00 Audrone JANUŽYTÉ (Mykolas Romerius University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Between National and International Interests: the New University of Lithuania during the Interwar Period

16.00-16.20 Jiří HNILICA (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), "Missionaries of Science and Spirit". The Topic of Visiting Professors Illustrated by the Example of Czechoslovak-French Cultural Relations in the Years 1918-1948.

Discussion

17.00 Closing Comments