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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
BONUS: Sunday, 2 October 2011
9.00-11.00, Walk with Soňa Štrbáňová in the footsteps of Prague science in the Old Town
11.00-12.30, Coffee or lunch in Café Louvre, the favourite place of Einstein
12.30-14.30, Walk with Petr Svobodný around the Prague medical campus |
