Conference Flyer:
http://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/perspectives/perspectives_flyer.pdf
Program:
Friday, 30 October
14:00-14:30 Arrival/Registration
14:30-15:00 Welcome and Introduction (Kärin Nickelsen, Robert Meunier)
PANEL 1: CELLS
15:00-16:30
Florence Vienne (TU Braunschweig) und Ohad Parnes (MPIWG Berlin)
Theodor Schwann’s Unpublished Writings: New Perspectives on “Materialism” and “Vitalism” in Nineteenth-Century Biology
Matthis Krischel (RWTH Aachen)
The Endosymbiotic Theory of Cell Evolution: Protagonists, Publications and Citation Patterns
16:30-17:00 Coffee
17:00-18:30
Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland, Neuseeland)
1975 and the Origins of Epigenetics
Alison Kraft (Univ. of Nottingham, UK) und Beatrix Rubin (Universität und ETH Zürich, Schweiz)
Changing Cells: Cellular Differentiation and the Discourses of Plasticity and Utility
18:30-19:00 Break
19:00-20:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Jenny Reardon (Univ. of California at Sta. Cruz, USA)
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome
Saturday, 31 October
PANEL 2: PLANTS
09:30-11:00
María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC Madrid, Spanien)
Plants as Transits: Non-places and the Contemporary Biological Laboratory
Emily K. Brock (MPIWG Berlin)
Field Physiology: The Livingston Atmometer and the Tools of Desert Ecology
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00
David P.D. Munns (City University of New York, USA)
The Phytotronist and the Phenotype: Plant Physiology, Big Science, and a Cold War Biology of the Whole Plant
Caterina Schürch (LMU München)
How Mechanisms Explain Interfield Cooperation
13:00-14:30 Lunch
PANEL 3:MICROORGANISMS (PLUS PANGENESIS)
14:30-16:00
Mathias Grote (HU Berlin)
“Make the system work.” What Microbiology Tells us About Classification and the Historiography of Science
Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo, Norwegen)
Natural History by the Bedside: Hospital Hygiene, Antibiotics and Infectious Disease 1950-1990
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:15
Raphael Scholl (University of Cambridge, UK)
Best Explanation or True Cause? The Case of Darwin's Pangenesis Theory
17:15-17:30 Break
17:30-19:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION:
Perspectives for the History of the Life Sciences in Germany, Europe and beyond
19:30 Conference Dinner
Sunday, 1 November
PANEL 4: REALM OF RESEARCH
09:00-10:30
Lara Keuck (MPIWG Berlin)
On Biomedical Uses of Historical (Re-)sources: The Reassessment of Founder Cases of Alzheimer’s Disease since the Mid-1990s
Cornelius Borck, Dominik Mahr, Staffan Müller-Wille, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Univ. Lübeck)
Interfacing Inflammation and Information in the Intestines:
Dynamics of Disease Concepts as Socioepistemic Challenges
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30
Alexander v. Schwerin (MPIWG Berlin)
The Life Sciences Within the Max Planck Society: A Special Case?
Bruno Strasser (Université de Genève, Schweiz)
Who are the Citizen Scientists? Amateurs, Professionals, and Public Participation in the Life Sciences
End of Conference