ESHS Neuenschwander Prize and Early Career Lectures
With the 2020 ESHS Bologna meeting now fast approaching, it is time for important announcements regarding the life of our society which will be followed up by some exciting events at the (online) ESHS meeting...
2020 Gustav Neuenschwander Prize
It is with great pleasure to announce that the historian Kostas Gavroglu has been awarded the 2020 Gustav Neuenschwander Prize. In awarding the prize, the ESHS Scientific Council called attention to Gavroglu's outstanding personal and scientific trajectory and especially his committment to the discipline as community builder. In particular, the Council acknowledged:
- His contribution to the history of science encompassing the study of science in the Greek-speaking world during the Enlightenment, science in the European Periphery, the history of universities, and the investigation of key transition in physical sciences, including the foundations of quantum chemistry and low temperature physics;
- His role in building a community of historians of science in Greece and in fostering the teaching of history of science at various educational levels;
- His active involvement in fostering international collaborations among historians of science in several countries, especially across Europe;
- His extensive networking activities in other parts of the world uniting various communities of historians, central and peripheral, consolidated and emerging, young and senior.
2020 Early Career Lectures
The 2020 Bologna Early Career Lectures will be delivered by three exceptionally promising scholars that a special committee appointed by the ESHS Scientific Council selected. The committee selected them in view of the promise of their historiographical approaches, and as expression of the vitality, diversity and creativity of the younger generation of historians of science. The lecturers (and lectures) are:
Clara Florensa (University Autonoma of Barcelona), Agnotology, epistemologies of ignorance, and invisibilisation studies in the history of science
Paolo Savoia (University of Bologna), Checking the Surface: Vernacular Science, Everyday Knowledge, and Observation in Early Modern Europe
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Sietske Fransen (Biblioteca Hertziana), Media Changes and Early Modern Visual Cultures of Science
Full details on the Neuenschwander Prize winner and the Early Career Lectures can be found in our website. More details about their online presentations will follow on the programme of the 2020 ESHS Bologna meeting.