Preliminary Programme

Showing: History of Science & Technology (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
C-3 TEC02 Patents and Inventors, 1800-1939
Seminario C, Nivel 0
Network: History of Science & Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizer: Alessandro Nuvolari Discussants: -
David Andersson, Fredrik Tell : Breaking the Dichotomy: Independent, Capitalist and Firm Patenting in Sweden, 1819-1914
Maurizio Lupo : Technological Innovation in a Peripheral Area Part Three: Further Considerations about Inventors, Inventions and Patents in the Ital-ian Mezzogiorno during the First Half of XIXth Century
Patricio Saiz : Patents as Corporate Tools: Babcock & Wilcox's Business Strategies in Spain before World War II
Jochen Streb, Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer : The Berlin Stock Exchange in Imperial Germany – a Market for New Technology?
Michelangelo Vasta, Laura Magazzini : The Value of Patents in Italy, 1861-1913



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
H-4 RUR14 Connecting Spaces: Transport, Technical Change, and Social Impacts, 1850-1920
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: History of Science & Technology , Rural Chair: Eduardo Beira
Organizer: Ellan Spero Discussant: Ellan Spero
Marta Felis Rota : A GIS Analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Densities in England and Wales, 1851-2000
Nancy Koppelman : Hierarchies of Energy on the Streets of New York: Movement by Machine as Social Capital, 1868-1903
Peter Meyer, Intan Hamdan-Livramento & Julio Raffo : Aeronautical Patents and Aviation History from 1880-1916
Bruno Navarro, Hugo Silveira Pereira : Building Railways in the Portugese Colonies of Africa and India: the Mormugao and Ambaca Railways
Robert Schwartz : Railways, Environmental Change, and Public Health in Great Britain, 1850 to 1914


I-4 CUL05 Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Networks: Culture , History of Science & Technology Chair: Michael John
Organizer: Sandra Pfistermüller Discussants: -
Ana Duarte Rodrigues : The Legacy of Hispano-Moorish Water Technology in Portugal during the Early Modern Period
Harald Kleinberger : Transformation of Depicted Knowledge. Technical Literature and Drawings of Machines in Practice in the 18th Century
Peter Paul Marckhgott : Early Modern Mining Technology: a Transatlantic Space of Knowledge
Sandra Pfistermüller : Producing Geographical Knowledge in Time of Metamorphosis: an Analysis of Zedler's Universal-Lexicon using the Methodology and Questions of the History of Knowledge



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
M-5 HEA05a History of Nuclear Energy and Society I: Nuclear Power, International Organizations and Anti-nuclear Movements in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Networks: Health and Environment , History of Science & Technology Chair: Albert Presas I Puig
Organizer: Jan-Henrik Meyer Discussant: M. del Mar Rubio-Varras
Christian Forstner : Transnational Reactions: How International Organizations Perceived National Anti-Nuclear Protests and Responded to Them
Arne Kaijser : Explaining the Rise and Fall of Anti-nuclear Movements: the Case of Sweden
Jan-Henrik Meyer : Challenging the Ultimate Resource. Reviewing Social Movement Approaches to the Nuclear Energy Conflict in a Historical Perspective


Y-5 TEC01 Opening the Future. The Inauguration Ceremonies of Large-scale Technological Projects
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: History of Science & Technology Chair: Frank Schipper
Organizers: Benjamin Brendel, Lyubomir Pozharliev Discussant: Eduardo Beira
Nikola Bakovic : Ritualizing the Technology. Yugoslav “Train of Brotherhood and Unity” – between Spatialization of History and Ideologization of Space
Benjamin Brendel : Dams in Spotlight: Inauguration Ceremonies and the Presentation of Power
Valentina Fava : From Large Technological Projects to “Deals of the Century”: Italian Businesses and their Global Events in the 1960s
Lyubomir Pozharliev : Roads to the Future and the Past – the Inauguration Ceremonies of Highways in PR of Bulgaria and SFR of Yugoslavia



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
M-6 HEA05b History of Nuclear Power and Society II: How to Research Societal Perceptions of and Engagement with Nuclear Energy in a Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
Aula 10, Nivel 1
Networks: Health and Environment , History of Science & Technology Chair: Jan-Henrik Meyer
Organizer: Jan-Henrik Meyer Discussant: Arne Kaijser
Karl-Erik Michelsen : Democratic vs. Non-democratic Technology: Social Perception and Engagement with Nuclear Energy in Democratic and Non-democratic Regimes during the Early Phase of the Cold War (1955-1970)
Albert Presas I Puig : Methodological Reflections on the Historical Experience with Nuclear Energy
M. del Mar Rubio-Varras, Joseba della Torre : History of Nuclear Energy and Society: the Role of Economic History Clarifying the Context within which Certain Decisions were made
John Whitton, Ana Prades, Matthew Cotton, Wilfried Konrad, Josep Espluga & Ioan Parry : The Theoretical, Methodological and Epistemological Challenges of the Multi – Disciplinary History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt) Research Project



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
I-8 RUR02 Energy in the Countryside, 1860-1960: Domesticating Energy on the Canadian Rural Homestead, and in the Cottages, Farms and Country Houses of Rural England
Aula 6, Nivel 0
Networks: History of Science & Technology , Rural Chair: Mona Gleason
Organizer: Ruth Sandwell Discussants: -
Abigail Harrison Moore : Specifying Energy Use in a Rural Setting: a Case Study of Phillip Webb at Standen
Michael Kay, Graeme Gooday : Electrifying the English Country House: Modern Energy and Communications in a Rural Setting
Ruth Sandwell : “‘An Almost Perfect Illuminant:’ Kerosene Lighting in Rural Canada, 1859-1940.”
Karen Sayer : Energy Transitions in the Farms and Cottages of Rural England, 1920-1960



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
Y-10 TEC03 Rewriting the History of Innovation
Seminario Ha Sciencia, Nivel 2
Network: History of Science & Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussants: Alessandro Nuvolari, Frank Schipper
Pedro Ruiz-Castell : Telescopes for Research and Sociability: Amateur Astronomy in Franco’s Spain
Keith Sugden : The Timing and Impact of the Mechanization of Cotton Manufacture upon Male and Female Employment, 1780-1830
Carlos Tabernero, Mònica Alcalá-Lorente : Natural Heritage as a Media Modernizing Commodity: Wildlife Television and the Image of Spain during the 1970s Transition to Democracy


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