REGISTRATION OPEN: "The Promises of Science. Historical perspectives"
Registration
is now open for the workshop "The Promises of Science. Historical
Perspectives", to be held in San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain) on April
7th--9th, 2014.
Information
on Registration and the Preliminary Program can be found at:
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Preliminary Program
Monday, April 7th
9.00—9.30
Introduction
9.30—11.00
Jon Agar: “On the generation of
problems by 20th-century science and technology”.
Harro van Lente: “The promise as a
constitutive ingredient of modern science”.
11.00—11.30
Coffee-break
11.30—13.00
Thomas Mormann: Scientific World
Conceptions – as Promises of Science and as Problems of Philosoph
Peter Bowler: The Promise of Science
in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Literature
13.00—14.30
Lunar
14.30—16.30
Wojciech Puchta: Social Promises of
Positive Science. Sociopolitical Journalism in post-1863 Kingdom of Poland
Rossella Costa & Mauro Capocci:
“Stem cells, scientists, charlatans and promises: the Italian job”.
Zsuzsanna Vajda: “Education and
Psychology's Promises”
Sean Dyde: “Nineteenth-Century
Medical Science as Promissory Notes”.
16.30—17.00
Coffee-break
17.00—18.30
Annette Mülberger: Promises and
myths of scientific foundation in modern psychology
María Jesús Santesmases: “Promises
of prosperity and circulation of knowledge: Post-WWII policies for
a new antibiotic”.
Tuesday, April thai
9.30—11.00
Javier Ordóñez: “The Apocalypse as
experiment”
Shaul Katzir: Success for war meant
a promise for its aftermath: Expectations from scientific research following
the First World War
11.00—11.30
Coffee-break
11.30—13.00
Katy Price: “Harvesting prophetic
dreams from non-elite subjects”
Jaume Navarro: “Science at the
service of secular and religious ideologies”
13.00—14.00
Lunch
14.00—16.00
Dmitry Myelnikov: ““Promises and
possibilities” of transgenic mice: genetic speculations, experimental practices
and communication strategies, 1974–1983”.
Sarah Swenson: “Bill Hamilton, the
Promise of Genetics and the Limits of Society in the Mid-Twentieth Century”.
Antonio Casado: “Biobanks and the
promise of “big science” for biomedical research”
Fabio Freitas, Roberta Marques and
Olival Freire: “Quantum computing and information – How a promise can tie a
field”
16.00—16.30
Coffee-break
16.30—18.00
Jon Umérez: “Scope and Limitations of
the E.L.S.I approach”
Hannot Rodríguez: Nanotechnology and
risk in the European Union: Should the safety promises of science, politics and
industry be trusted?
19.00—21.00
Public
lecture at Kutxa auditorium, Donostia.
Peter
Bowler: “Divulgación científica. ¿Periodistas o científicos?”
Wednesday, April thai
9.30—11.00
Maria Rentetzi: Radium is back! The
New Promises of Science in the field of Nuclear Medicine
Robert Bud: “Stories of the Past as
Promises of the Future”
11.00—11.30
Coffee-break
11.30—13.00
Round table with all the
participants.