7th ESHS Conference Prague 2016

Prague, Czech Republic, 22–24 September, 2016
CONTENTS
PLENARY EVENTS ............................................................................................................... 8
Plenary Lecture ................................................................................................................... 9
Koyré Prize Award............................................................................................................. 10
Young Scholars ................................................................................................................. 11
SYMPOSIA ........................................................................................................................ 13
Symposium 13: Prosopography and the History of Science in a Networked Computational
Environment: Theoretical, Methodological, and Technical Considerations ................................... 14
Symposium 17: Enduring Ideas, New Alliances: Social and Epistemic Factors in
the Renaissance of General Relativity ..................................................................................... 22
Symposium 19: On the move: the circulation of radioactive materials in the cross road
of health physics and biomedicine .......................................................................................... 27
Symposium 24: Science funding and gendered scientific personae in interwar Europe ............. 30
Symposium 29: Skulls and roses: natural history collections and their meaning in 18–19th
centuries .............................................................................................................................. 34
Symposium 37: The Principle of Energy Conservation: history, philosophy, education,
digital humanities ................................................................................................................. 41
Symposium 38: The Power of the Knowledge of Geometry in the West and the East ............... 45
Symposium 40: Revisiting the Marie Curie effect: “Invisibly powerful” women in science –
Challenges of Empowerment for Women in Science: A Transnational Perspective ....................... 50
Symposium 41: Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power ................................... 58
Symposium 46: Disciplining Knowledge: The Emergence of Learned Journals and The
Consolidation of Scholarly and Scientific Disciplines in the German lands ................................... 66
Symposium 67: Algebra, Humanism and Cultural Policies ...................................................... 69
Symposium 69: Forgotten Pages in the History of Genetics ................................................... 74
Symposium 70: Pugwash and the communism question: Perceptions and Realities.................. 77
Symposium 72: The Big Brother Role Model? Soviet and American impulses for Central and
Eastern European academic systems, 1945–1989 .................................................................... 81
Symposium 78: Anti-authoritarianism in natural philosophy: radicalism and folk intuitions ........ 89
Symposium 82: Pariah sciences. Episteme, Power and Legitimization of Knowledge, from
Animal Electricity to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions ................................................................. 93
Symposium 88: European Physicists and Chinese Physics in the 20th Century ....................... 100
Symposium 94: The power of tropical biology: Creating epistemic spaces in the long
twentieth century ............................................................................................................... 103
Symposium 105: Odd scientific objects in post-Great Depression Europe .............................. 106
Symposium 110: Scientists and the powerful from the Middle Age to the Classical period ...... 109
Symposium 115: The power of norms: standardisation and normalisation through
International Scientific Organisations .................................................................................... 112
Symposium 116: From Lysenkoism to Evolutionary Biology ................................................. 117
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