The Evolution of Knowledge - A Scientific Meeting in Honor of Jürgen Renn

Speaker List

• Massimiliano Badino
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    Chair: Massimiliano Badino

• Vincenzo Barone
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    Book presentation “Einstein on Einstein”

• Fabio Bevilacqua
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    "Reflections in tranquillity” on the “Evolution of Knowledge”: Random remarks on “easy and not so easy” achievements and goals

• Elena Bougleux
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    Chair: Elena Bougleux

• Jens Braarvig (University of Oslo)
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    Alphabets, dictionaries and grammars

• Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
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    Re-orienting studies of knowledge dissemination in and from Islamicate societies

• Wei Chen
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    The “Iron-eating bird” on the Silk Roads: the cross-cultural study of circulation of ostrich diet myths

• Leo Corry (Full Professor, Faculty of Humanities, History & Philosophy of Science Inst., Tel Aviv University)
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    Two views of excellence in research, two views of zionist nation-building: pure mathematics at the Hebrew University, applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

• Maria Paula Diogo
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    Crises and the Anthropocene

• Rivka Feldhay (Associate Professor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University.)
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    Theatre of science. Solving mathematical problems in early modern jesuit colleges

• Kostas Gavroglu (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
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    What did Urban VIII and Galileo discuss during the “six long meetings” in 1624?

• Mark Geller
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    Chair: Benjamin Steininger

• Giulia Giannini (Professore associato, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università degli Studi di Milano La Statale)
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    Tracing the roots of the European scientific enterprise: The Accademia del Cimento in Florence.

• Gerd Grasshoff
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    Chair:Gerd Grasshoff

• Hanoch Gutfreund
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    Book presentation “Einstein on Einstein”

• Svend Hansen
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    Discussion

• Jens Høyrup (Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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    The tangled roots of the mathematics of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution

• Myles Jackson ( Professor of the History of Science at the Institute for Advanced Study)
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    Engineering musical aesthetics: science, technology, and the trautonium"

• Jürgen Jost
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    Discussion

• Ursula Klein (Senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
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    Earth System science in political context

• Roberto Lalli
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    Combining physics and politics during the Cold War: The role of international scientific networks and institutions

• Manfred Laubichler
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    Speaker: Ricarda Winkelmann/Manfred Laubichler

• Wolfgang Lefèvre (Emeritus Scholar, Max Planck Istitute for The History of Science)
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    Science and the industrial revolution

• Steve Levinson (Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
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    On cognitive artefacts

• Peter McLaughlin
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    Means and ends in the history of science

• Pepe Montesinos
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    Speaker: José Montesinos

• Gabriel Motzkin
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    Chair: Gabriel Motzkin

• Pietro Daniel Omodeo
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    Discussion

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    Geopraxis

• Nuccio Ordine
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    Evening Lecture - Ten words on school and university - Nuccio Ordine

• Jürgen Renn
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    Book presentation “Einstein on Einstein”

• Christoph Rosol
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    First half

• Stefano Ruffo
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    Evening Lecture - Ten words on school and university - Nuccio Ordine

• Bernd Scherer
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    Closing Remarks

• Robert Schulmann
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    Discussion

• Ana Simoes
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    Crises and the Anthropocene

• Sauer Tilman (Professor of History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
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    Mathematics as a tool: Galilei and Huygens on the hanging chain

• Matteo Valleriani
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    Discussion

• Matteo Valleriani
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    How many climate zones? The spread of cosmographic knowledge in the early modern period

• Pierluigi Vercesi
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    Evening Lecture - Ten words on school and university - Nuccio Ordine

• David Wolpert (professor at the Santa Fe Institute)
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    Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution

• Liu Yu (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)
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    Inheritance and innovation: casting technology and craft production of bronzes in Shang dynasty (16th BC-11th BC), China