CfP: The 28 th Baltic Conference on the History of Science
“On the Border of the Russian Empire: German University of Tartu and its first Rector Georg Friedrich Parrot”
May 18-20, 2017
Tartu
Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science cordially invites you to the 28th Baltic Conference on the History of Science (BCHS), which will take place from May 18 to 20, 2017 in Tartu, Estonia.
The conference is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of
Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767-1852). Parrot was the initiator of the
reopening of the University of Tartu in 1802 and the first Rector. He is
known as an organizer, educator and scientist who
was among the very first to introduce the ideas of the Enlightenment
into the Baltic region.
The Baltic conferences on the
history of science share a long tradition, which stretches back to the
year 1958 when the first conference took place in Riga. The following
conferences were held in Estonia, Lithuania and
Latvia. In 2014, the 26th BCHS took place in Helsinki, Finland.
The 28th BCHS focuses at ideas of the Enlightenment and on various sciences in late 18th and early 19th century on the western border of the Russian Empire. However, papers on more recent
developments will be welcome as well.
The 28th BCHS covers a variety of topics, which divide into working sections:
a)
Enlightenment ideas in education in Europe;
b)
philosophical ideas concerning the Enlightenment;
c)
science and practice – utilitarianism and the Enlightenment;
d)
science communication and science policy.
Detailed information about the
conference programme, registration, abstracts, accommodation and other
matters will be published on the website of the Baltic Association for
the History and Philosophy of Science
www.bahps.org in due course.
Please send abstracts of 500 words maximum to
tarmo.kiik@gmail.com by Feb. 28, 2017.