The Council of the IAHS has decided to publish in the publications of the Academy selected papers presented at the Conference. To achieve this goal, the papers will be reviewed by referees.
At this stage, participants can submit their paper without following specific guidelines. The authors which papers will be accepted by the refereeing process for publication will be asked later to modify accordingly their contributions.
For those interested to submit their paper for publication please send the paper to both of the following e-mail addresses: [email protected] and [email protected]
Due to numerous early registrations, the programme version with the early registered speakers will be online on June 26, 2023. The final version with all registred speakers will be online on August 10.
2nd Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science Athens, Greece, 12-15 September 2023
Scientific practices and human values – A historical approach.
Poster of the 2nd Conference of the International Academy of History of Science
George Sarton, one of the founders of the International Academy, proclaimed that the history of science was the basis of a “new humanism” because science generates its own values. Auschwitz and Hiroshima proved him wrong.
The ethical and social responsibility of the scientist in his or her research practice and applications is a burning issue today. But this problem is an old one. It is linked to all religions and all the great philosophies. In history, there have been many cases since the beginning: experimentation on humans, the contribution to war inventions (Nobel), the contribution of scientists to the atomic bomb and their revolt, questions of race and gender, the control of life in its origins and its end, submission to the military-industrial complex, artificial intelligence etc… A historical, transdisciplinary and transcultural approach sheds new light by situating the fundamental questions in the long term.
The Second Athenian Days of the History of Science are co-organised by the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the International Academy of the History of Science with the support of the University of Athens. The Foundation is completing an extensive programme on “Science and Religion” entitled “Science and Orthodoxy around the World”.
The International Academy brings together 350 specialists from all over the world from all religious, philosophical and political backgrounds. The congress is not restricted to members of the Academy who will hold their general assembly there, but is open to all scholars, including doctoral students.
The languages of the congress are the two working languages of the Academy: French and English.
1st Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science
Athens, Greece, 12-15 September 2019
Science in Different Cultures and Civilizations Towards a transcultural history of knowledge
The International Academy of the History of Science was founded in 1928 with the aim to prepare the first International Congress of History of Science in 1929 in Paris. At this Congress, its statutes were adopted defining it as an academic society gathering the most prominent specialists of the field and aiming at organizing and promoting history of science worldwide. Subsequently, the Academy has organized all international congresses of history of science until the fifth, held in 1947 in Lausanne, where, in a post-war context, the International Union of the History of Science was founded as an association of national committees which took over the task to organize the international congresses.
In order to revive the tradition of connecting specialists in a spirit of conviviality, the Academy launches a new series of international conferences to be held every four years, beginning from September 2019. We call all our members, as well as every historian of science, and particularly young scholars, to participate in this conference by presenting a paper and/or organizing a symposium. All relevant information and the calendar are published on the website of the first Conference of the AIHS-IAHS.
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