PD Dr. Axel Jansen
Thursday, September 11, 2014
1.00 pm - Introduction
“Science as a Profession, the Nation-State, and Globalization: New Approaches and Issues“, Andreas Franzmann, Axel Jansen, Peter Münte
1.30 pm - Panel 1: Science and the Nation-State: Historic Configurations
“State - Nation - University. The “German University Model” as a National Political Legitimation Strategy in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since the 19th Century”, Dieter Langewiesche (Tübingen)
2.30 pm - "Transformations in the Relationship between Nation State and Science: The Theoretical Perspective of Functional Differentiation" (preliminary title), Rudolf Stichweh (Bonn)
3.30 pm - "The Competition of Scientific Nations and the Myth of the Kulturnation“, Peter Münte (Bielefeld)
4.30 Coffee break
5 pm - “Science in an Emerging Nation-State: Alexander Dallas Bache and American Science, 1810-1865”, Axel Jansen (Tübingen/Cambridge, UK)
6 pm - “Science, State Power, and the Cold War: Towards a Global History”, Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Friday, September 12, 2014
9 am - Panel 2: Europe and the US: Transformations since 1950
“Humanities in the Nation State. Symbolising Academic Autonomy in Statist and Neoliberal Constellations”, Vincent Gengnagel und Julian Hamann (Bamberg)
10 am - “The Institutionalization of the European Research Area: The ‘Second phase’ of the EU Research Policy and its Consequences”, Arne Pilniok (Hamburg)
11 am - Coffee break
11.30 am - Panel 3: Emerging Science Nations since 1970
“State, Science, and Earthquakes in Communist China”, Fa-ti Fan (State University of New York, Binghamton)
12.30 pm - Lunch break
2.00 pm - “The State-Technoscience Duo in India: A Brief History of a Politico-Epistemological Contract”, Shiju Sam Varughese (Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar)
3.00 pm - “Argumentative Scale-Switching and Imagined Communities – Exemplified by Genetic Epidemiology in China Medical City [中国医药城]”, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (University of Sussex)
4.00 pm - Coffee break
4.30 pm - Panel 4: Disciplines in National Contexts
"Moral and Political Economies of Contemporary Bioscience", Kerry Holden (Queen Mary University of London)
5.30 pm - "Transformed by the Subject of Investigation: Islamic Studies after Decolonization”, Andreas Franzmann (Tübingen)
Saturday, September 13, 2014
9 am - Panel 5: Dynamics and Problems in a Globalized Science System
“Internationalisation of National Science, Technology and Innovation Policies: De- or Re-enactment of the Nation State?” Nina Witjes and Lisa Sigl (Vienna)
10 am - “Universalisierte Dritte. Zur Typik und Genese eines ‘verwissenschaftlichten’ Beobachtertypus”, Tobias Werron (Bielefeld)
11 am - Coffee break
11.30 am - Mitchell Ash (Vienna; to be confirmed)
12.30 pm - Concluding discussion
1 pm - Departure