Is science local, global or universal? Are these qualities contradictory or can they be combined? What differentiates a local, national, global or universal history? Do they have different objects, approaches, sources or techniques? Are histories of science distinct to other local or global histories? This seminar series presents a situated reflection on the problem of scales in history of science that focuses on its theoretical and practical definition, and its methodological, professional and civic challenges.
Place: Institut interuniversitari López Piñero - València, Spain
Streaming: http://reunion.uv.es/hcc2
Period: 11 Dec. 2019 to 5 Febr 2020
Full program: http://links.uv.es/dhcd/scale_string
1. Wednesday 11th December 2019, 16:00 (CET)
Spatial Concepts in the Historiography of Science: When to Claim that Science is Local?
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (Oulun Yliopisto/University of Oulo)
2. Wednesday 15th January 2020, 16:00 (CET)
Historicizing the Universal: Writing the History of International Science after Sarton
Geert Somsen (Maastricht University)
3. Thursday 30th January 2020, 16:00 (CET)
Is There a Politics of Scale?
Glenda Sluga (The University of Sidney / European University Institute)
4.Wednesday 5th February 2020, 18:00 (CET)
Roundtable: Local Science, Global History?
With the participation of Carmel Ferragud (IILP, Universitat de València), José Pardo Tomás (Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC), Jorge Sáiz Serrano (IES Tirant lo Blanch, Torrent – Departament de Didàctica de les Ciències Experimentals i Socials, Universitat de València) and Josep Lluís Barona (IILP, Universitat de València)
A JOINT VENTURE OF THE Institut interuniversitari López Piñero (www.uv.es/ihmc) AND THE Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (https://blogs.iec.cat/schct/). COORDINATED BY Josep Simon (josep.simon@uv.es)
All seminars take place in the conference room of the Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero (Palau Cerveró, Pl. Cisneros 4, 46003 València, 2nd floor)
All the seminars can be viewed live by online streaming at: http://reunion.uv.es/hcc2
Talks are in English. The language of the roundtable is Catalan and Spanish.