Program
Friday, September 13, 2019
Topic: Methodological Approaches in the History of Science and Technology
Chair: Kostas Skordoulis
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 4
Theodore Arabatzis | Explaining Science Historically
Sigrid Leyssen | Moving Perception. On Material Culture and Media in the History of Perception Research
Lilla Vekerdy | History of Science Research Resources in the Smithsonian Libraries
Henk Kubbinga | Atoms and molecules in history from a global point of view
Noon Session | 11:30-13:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 4
Hajime Inaba | The tool of sum-over-states: Research and pedagogy in statistical mechanics, 1902–1944
Kostas Skordoulis | Science And Hegemony In Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks”
Zeng Huafeng, Huang Boyao, Yang Aihua, Zhao Jingjing and Cheng Baihua | Rational Thought on Disruptive Technology
Topic: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the History of Science and Technology
Chair: Alexandra Sfoini
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 6
Constantin Canavas | Travelling rhinoceroses: Peregrinations across cultures, politics, science, art, and commerce
Tatyana Filippova | The role of the scientific community of Russia in the creation of the object of World Natural Heritage of UNESCO “Virgin Forests of Komi”
Alexandra L. Rizhinashvili | The roots of ecology in Russia during the 20th Century
Evening Session | 18:00-20:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 6
Effie Lambropoulou | The presence of pseudoscientific ideas in the Greek press of the 19th century
Evangelia Chordaki and Antigoni Lazopoulou | Women’s engagement in science: The case of Greek Feminist Movements for abortion and contraception in the 1970s
Alexandra Sfoini | Sciences, langues et traductions pendant les Lumières néohelléniques
Maria Terdimou | Euclid in Greek modern poetry
Topic: Medicine and Biology
Chair: Andreas Vourtsis
Noon Session | 11:30-13:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 3
Ian Davis | Headache Palliatives from Dioscorides and Evaluation of their Possible Efficacy
Alicia Grant | 18th-century variolation (smallpox inoculation) and western changes to its eastern origin
Hamid Hachelafi | La perception socio-historique dans les sciences de la santé. Epilepsie, comme modèle d’étude
Dominique Steinmetz | La Peste : regard sur la troisième pandémie
Chair: Sylva Charalambous
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 3
Maria Zarifi | Transcultural features of modernity in 19th century Greek medical science and public health
Andreas Vourtsis and Eleni-Ersi Bakou | The creation of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Interwar Greece: Zaharoff, Venizelos and the French connection
Ana Barahona | Entangled histories: karyotyping and populations genetics in Cold War Mexico. Salvador Armendares and Rubén Lisker characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s
Evening Session | 18:00-20:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 3
Liu Bing | The History of the Establishment of New Zhuang Medicine and the Construction of its Core Theory of “Three Ways and Two Roads”
Chen-Jong Lan | “Cholera” in Chinese and Western medicine reference
Jingjing Su | Polyclinics in 1950s China: Medicine and Politics
Topic: Mathematics and Astronomy
Chair: Ioannis Kalogerakos
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 5
Jean Michel Delire | Euclid’s Elements, from Alexandria to China, via India – especially India
Foued Nafti | The Algebra of al-Karağī (10th-11th c.): circulation and novelty
Mahmoud Al-Hamza | О математике в арабо-исламской цивилизации
Alexei Volkov | The didactic dimension of pre-modern Chinese and Vietnamese mathematical treatises
Noon Session | 11:30-13:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 5
Ioannis Kalogerakos | The Unity of Being in Aristotle’s Physical Universe
Xenophon Moussas | Antikythera Mechanism: was it a clock? Similar instruments
Elias Gourtsoyannis | Hipparchos vs Ptolemaeos and the Antikythera Mechanism: Pin-Slot Device Parameter directly linked to the eccentricity of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 5
Nadia Ambrosetti | Le fighure degl’Indi or The Spread of the Algorismi
Wieslaw Wójcik | Jan Śleszyński’s study of the foundations of mathematics
Stanislaw Domoradzki, Mykhaylo Zarichnyy and Malgorzata Stawiska | Diverse faces of mathematical Lwów between two world wars
Topic: Lives and Works of Scientists
Chair: Sandy Sakorrafou
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 2
Wang Gong and Yang Jian | Joseph Needham and nutrition research in China during WWII
Jan Vandersmissen | Entanglements of history of science and Egyptology: Frans Jonckheere and the upcoming study of ancient Egyptian medicine in Belgium (1930-1956)
Maija Kallinen | Traveling for Knowledge: Pehr Kalm and the Linnean enterprise of collecting
Erwin Neuenschwander | Three case studies of mathematicians in the Third Reich: Bessel-Hagen, Hausdorff, and van der Waerden
Evening Session | 18:00-20:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 2
Luiz Carlos Soares | Trading the Newtonian Science in Eighteenth-Century England – The Trajectory of Benjamin Martin as Itinerant Lecturer and Scientific Instrument Maker
Aihua Yang | On Tseng Kuofan’s Practices of Science and Technology
Frank James | Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographical Image
Pablo Lorenzano | The Crystallization of the First Research Programme in Genetics: Bateson’s “Mendelism”
Topic: Physics
Chair: Kostas Tampakis
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: Marasleio Room 4
X. Moussas, K. Athanasaki, G. Marakis, S. Mandalaki and E. Kountouri | Ancient Greek Optical instruments, Lenses, Mirrors and Complex Systems
Vasiliki Christine Christopoulou | Lord Rayleigh versus Werner von Siemens on the determination of the Ohm
Grigoris Panoutsopoulos and Theodore Arabatzis | Revisiting the Crisis in High Energy Physics
Evening Session | 18:00-20:00
Venue: Marasleio Room 4
Photis Dais | The impact of Gibbs’ and Duhem’s approaches to thermodynamics on the development of chemical thermodynamics
Roberto Lalli |Crafting Europe from CERN to Dubna: The diplomatic function of physics in the foundation and early activities of the European Physical Society, 1965-1973
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Topic: Local Aspects of the History of Science and Technology
Chair: Dimitris Kilakos
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: NHRF Seminar Room
Zhiqiang Wang | Historiography on History of Meteorological Science in China and the Enlightenment of Civilization
Zhenghong Chen | Study and Enlightenment on Genealogy of Chinese Atmospheric Science for the History of Science in the 20th Century
Fan Xiaojuan | Social Assessment Analysis of Urban Construction Engineering in Erdos
Hang Zhang | A Study on the Translation and Communication of American Journal Popular Science Monthly in the Republic of China (1912-1949)
Noon Session | 11:30-13:30
Venue: NHRF Seminar Room
Fuling Nie and Guo Sheng | Knowledge Communication and Integration of “電” and “Electricity” in Chinese and Western Culture
Elena Sinelnikova | Social and Numerical Composition of Petrograd-Leningrad Scientific Societies in the 1920s: the Government Regulation and Control
Dimitris Kilakos | The institutionalization of philosophy as a science in the Soviet Union
Nadezhda Slepkova | The Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg and the development of the taxonomy: 300 years of changes
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: NHRF Seminar Room
Nicolas Nio | The teaching of electromagnetic theories in engineering schools in France in the late nineteenth century.
Milada Sekyrkova | Nations for themselves or knowledge across the monarchy? Universities of the Habsburg Monarchy before the WWI
Carlos Filgueiras | Chemistry and Colonial Brazil
Aline de Oliveira Coelho | From artifact to quantum: the evolution of the International System of Units and the communication of its revision in Brazil
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Topic: Science and Religion
Chair: Sandy Sakorrafou
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: NHRF Auditorium
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen | Religion in Diagrammatic Traditions – Cosmologies in Color in Metabolic Maps
Meropi Morfouli and Dimitris Petakos | The beginning of the end: Natural philosophy & Metaphysics in early 18th century
Mirela Altic | Jesuit mapmaking in Americas as Transcultural Encounters or Why did the Jesuits Become so Successful Cartographers?
Kostas Tampakis | Science, Theology, and Nationalism in Greece (1830-1930)
Topic: Science and Exploration
Chair: Efthymios Nicolaidis
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: NHRF Seminar Room
Carlos Hugo Sierra | Ez Ikusi, Ez Ikasi (“Do Not See, Do Not Learn”). The Scientific Adventure Of Antoine D’abbadie
Alexandra Brovina | Russian science in the Arctic: the study of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the late XIX – early XX centuries
Michael J. Neufeld | Exploring Pluto and Europa: The U.S. Planetary Sciences and Politics, 1989-2019