De Frankenstein a Einstein: ciència i societat contemporànies
El professor Mark Walker, John Bigelow Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York
impartirà com a professor visitant del Màster en Història de la ciència. Ciència, història i societat (UAB-UB) quatre sessions dins el mòdul
40508 De Frankenstein a Einstein: ciència i societat contemporànies:
Tuesday 16 March, 16.30-19.30h
Darwin and Darwinism
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species; Social Darwinism and Eugenics; "Racial Hygiene" in NS Germany; Ethology and Sociobiology
Wednesday 17 March, 16.30-19.30h
Modern Physics: Relativity and Quantum Theory
Einstein, as a Scientist and Public Figure; "Aryan Physics," the Purge and Rehabilitation of German Physics under Hitler; The "Denazification" of German Physics
Friday 19 March, 16.30-19.30h
Nuclear Physics and Energy
From Radioactivity to Nuclear Fission; Wartime Work on the Atomic Bomb; The Nuclear Arms Race and Civil Defense; The Space Race and Nuclear Logic
Monday 22 March, 16.30-19.30h
"Ideologically-Correct" Science
Science, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution; Science in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany; Science during McCarthyism in the USA and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; Conclusion: From Frankenstein to Einstein and Back Again
impartirà com a professor visitant del Màster en Història de la ciència. Ciència, història i societat (UAB-UB) quatre sessions dins el mòdul
40508 De Frankenstein a Einstein: ciència i societat contemporànies:
Tuesday 16 March, 16.30-19.30h
Darwin and Darwinism
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species; Social Darwinism and Eugenics; "Racial Hygiene" in NS Germany; Ethology and Sociobiology
Wednesday 17 March, 16.30-19.30h
Modern Physics: Relativity and Quantum Theory
Einstein, as a Scientist and Public Figure; "Aryan Physics," the Purge and Rehabilitation of German Physics under Hitler; The "Denazification" of German Physics
Friday 19 March, 16.30-19.30h
Nuclear Physics and Energy
From Radioactivity to Nuclear Fission; Wartime Work on the Atomic Bomb; The Nuclear Arms Race and Civil Defense; The Space Race and Nuclear Logic
Monday 22 March, 16.30-19.30h
"Ideologically-Correct" Science
Science, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution; Science in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany; Science during McCarthyism in the USA and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; Conclusion: From Frankenstein to Einstein and Back Again
Aula C5b/031 o alternativament Seminari del CEHIC (Facultat de Ciències de la UAB)
Sessions obertes a les persones interessades, lectures recomanades disponibles a cehic@uab.cat
Amb el suport del Ministeri de Ciència i Innovació, Menció de Qualitat 2007-00240.
Centre d'Història de la Ciència / Departament de Filosofia
Facultat de Ciències - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain http://www.uab.cat/cehic