em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash
SCEICNE IN THE METROPOLIS:
SPACES AND CONSTELLATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE 1848-1918
Conference 15 - 17 November 2017
Theatersaal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Programm
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
16:00: Greeting: Hermann Hunger, Speaker, Working Group in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
16:30: Mitchell G. Ash (Vienna): Introductory Remarks
17:00: Dorothee Brantz (Berlin), Keynote:
Urban Natural History – Writing about Science in the Metropolis
18:00: Discussion
18:30: Reception in the Foyer of the Theatersaal
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Session 1: Overviews and Approaches
9:30 Miriam Levin (Cleveland)
Science and the Metropolis: Museums, Expositions and the Emerging Urban Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century
10:15 Oliver Hochadel (Barcelona)
"Histoire croisée“ meets urban history of science. Some historiographical reflections
11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Vienna and Elsewhere - Case Studies 1
11:30 Ulrike Spring (Oslo)
Is There an Open Sea at the North Pole? Arctic Debates in Vienna and Hamburg in the 1870s
12:15 Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona)
Barcelona. An Urban History of Science and Modernity (1888-1929)
13:00 Lunch Break
Session 3: Vienna and Elsewhere – Case Studies 2
15:00 Katalin Straner (Budapest/Manchester)
Science as a Metropolitan Event: Mapping Scientific Networks and Expertise in Budapest, 1840-1896
15:45 Petra Svatek (Wien)
Netzwerke in den geographischen Wissenschaften - Die Metropolen Wien und Berlin im Vergleich
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Brooke Penaloza Patzak
Capital Collections, Thick Spaces: A Comparative Case Study of Structural Viscosity in fin de siècle Ethnographic Museum Networks, Vienna and Berlin
Friday, 17 November 2017
Session 4: Focus on Vienna – Case Studies 1
9:30 Sandor Békési (Wien)
Die Anfänge der gründerzeitlichen "Stadtmaschine": Technologietransfer und infrastruktureller Ausbau in Wien bis 1873
10:15 Jan Surman (Vienna/Moscow)
Do Professors walk? Academic commuting and urban development in the Habsburg Metropolis 1848-1918
11:00 Coffee Break
11:3 Marianne Klemun (Vienna)
Metropolitan Geology: Turning Vienna into Stones in the Nineteenth Century
12:15 Lunch Break
Session 5: Focus on Vienna – Case Studies 2
14:00 Johannes Mattes (Vienna): Speleological Circles of Exchange: Spaces in between and go-between in the Metropolis Vienna ca. 1900
14:45 Christian Stifter (Wien): Wissenschaftsorientierte Volksbildung: Heterotopische Lernorte wissenschaftlichen Wissens in der Reichsmetropole Wien 1887–1918
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Klaus Taschwer (Wien)
Populäre Wissenschaft in Wien um 1900 am Beispiel der „Volkstümlichen Universitätsvorlesungen“