Workshop: Ether and Modernity
ETHER AND MODERNITY.
THE RECALCITRANCE OF AN AGONISING OBJECT IN PHYSICS AND IN CULTURE.
San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain)
30 – 31st March, 2017
CFP:
Physicists, Historians of Science and Philosophers are invited to
attend and submit short presentations to the workshop "Ether and
Modernity", on the presence of the ether in twentieth-century science
and culture.
This is the third of a series of
meetings (Oxford 2014, San Francisco 2015, San Sebastian 2017) to
discuss the way an epistemic object like the ether was rejected,
modified or maintained in the firs half of the twentieth century, and
the later attempts to resuscitate it in contemporary physics.
The
workshop has a twofold practical purpose: the finalisation of a joint
publication with the contributions of the invited speakers; and the
dissemination of the results and the incorporation of new ideas into the
project by other historians of science, physicists and philosophers.
Please send expressions of interest to jaume.navarro@ehu.es by November 15th 2016.
Invited Speakers:
Imogen Clarke (Independent Scholar)
Connemara Doran (Harvard University)
Linda D. Henderson (University of Texas)
Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Physics)
Jaume Navarro (Ikerbasque and University of the Basque Country)
Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University)
Richard Staley (University of Cambridge)
Scott A. Walter (University of Nantes)
Michael Whitworth (University of Oxford)
Aaron Wright (Stanford University)