Preliminary Programme
The 4th Norwegian Conference of History of Science
Sunday, November 20th to Tuesday, November 22nd 2011
University of Oslo
Conference Organizer:
Vidar Enebakk
Conference coordinator:
Magnus Lysberg
Programme Committee:
Kristin Asdal
Brita Brenna
Vidar Enebakk
Christoph Gradman
SUNDAY 20TH NOVEMBER
Norwegian Museum for Science, Technology and Medicine.
18.00
Registration and Reception
19.00
Conference Opening: Vidar Enebakk
19.15
Key Note Lecture 1: Lissa Roberts (Twente)
20.00
Museum Exhibition: “Mind the Gap”
MONDAY 21ST NOVEMBER
University of Oslo, Blindern Campus, Georg Sverdrups Hus.
09.30
Registration and Coffee
10.00–10.45 Key Note Lecture 2: Otto Sibum (Uppsala)
SESSION 1
11.00–13.00 1a) EARLY MODERN SCIENCE
Anne Helness (Oslo) Early modern travel writing
Thomas Østerhaug (Oslo), ”The curious way to observe weight in Water”:
Francisd Bacon, Thomas Harriot and specific gravity
Anders Rydberg (Uppsala), Christian Wolff and the ambvivalence of
experience
Alexander C. Iosad (Reading), 1738-1740: A decade of popular science in
Russia
11.00–13.00 1b) ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Peder Anker (New York), The sustainable society: A history of science as a
vacation
Jenny Beckman (Uppsala), Making lists, making borders: Threatened speices
and Nordic relations.
Robert Kirk (Manchester) and Tone Druglitrø (Oslo), Communicating with
care: Scientific standards and moral values in the transnational development
of laboratory animal science, c. 1956-1988
Roland Wittje (Regensburg), Geographies of sound: Accoustics in the interwar
period
13.00–14.00 Lunch
SESSION 2
14.00–15.30 2a) LIFE SCIENCES
Anne Kveim Lie (Oslo), Naming and mapping diseases in the 18th century.
Francis Lee (Linköping) and Jenny Beckman (Uppsala), Mapping life,
representing science.
Edgeir Benum (Oslo), Geography and the DNA-story.
14.00–15.30 2b) HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Anders Lundgren (Uppsala), Smell and taste in the history ofchemistry:
Textbooks and laboratories in the end of the 19th century.
Anette Lykknes (Trondheim), Ida and Walter Noddack through better and
worse: An Arbeitsgemeinschaft in chemistry.
Katarina Larsen (Stockholm) and Maja Fjaestad (Stockholm), Science
laboratries and geographies of technology. A study of measurement
techniques and international citation of Nobel laureates.
15.30
Short break / Coffee
SESSION 3
16.00-18.00
3a) OCEANOGRAPHY AND METEOROLOGY
Gunnar Ellingsen (Bergen), The place – and depth – of new scientific methods.
Measuring ocean current before 1960.
Staffan Bergwik (Uppsala), Home and away, mimicry and travelling: Hans
Petterson and the transferring of oceanography.
Peder Roberts (Strasbourg), An opportunity, but also a curse? Hans Petterson
and the geopolitics of oceanography, 1945-1960.
Janet Martin-Nielsen (Aarhus), At war with nature: Scientific knowledge,
military strategy and Arctic geography.
16.00-18.00
3b) POLAR HISTORY
Einar Arne Drivenes (Tromsø), Inventing polar nations. Politics and science in
the Arctic.
Kari Aga Myklebost (Tromsø), Norwegian-Russian cross border scientific
networks in arctic research.
Terje Brundtland (Tromsø), About men and instruments: The Norwegian
Auroral Expedition to the Arctic, 1902-3.
Aant Elzinga (Gothenburg), Roald Amundsen: Explorer, reflective practioner
and facilitator of science.
19.00-23.00
CONFERENCE DINNER
Fram Museum
Bygdøy
TUESDAY 22. NOVEMBER
The National Library
09.30
Coffee
10.00-10.45
Key Note Lecture 3: Anne Hardy (London)
SESSION 4
11.00-13.00
4a) HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Svein Alte Skålevåg (Bergen), “Prostitutionology”.
Kerstin Bornholdt (Oslo), The geographies of female medical knowledge
production: Medical Women’s International Association.
Magnus Vollset (Bergen), Circulating leprosy.
Øyvind Thomassen (Trondheim), Goodbye to biology.
11.00-13.00
4b) HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Dagmar Zadrazilova (Cambridge), The geography of early medical studies:
Travelling knowledges, images and practices between Italy and England
Teodora Daniela Sechel (Budapest), Medical Topographies on the Eastern
Fringes of the Habsburg Monarchy
Stephan Curtis (Canada), The dissemination of continental European medicine
into nineteenth-century Sweden
Mónica García (Columbia), Between the local and the universal: medical
geography and bacteriology in nineteenth-century Colombia.
13.00-14.00
Lunch
SESSION 5
14.00-16.00
5) PLENARY SYMPOSIUM: Large scale programmes in the history of science:
Some Swedish considerations
Sven Widmalm (Uppsala), Lessons from the VTI-project (1996-2006), an early
example of big bistory of science in Sweden.
Christer Norlund (Umeå), The fuel of the future? A research programme on
the science, technology and selling of biofuels in Sweden.
Johan Kärnfelt (Gothenburg), Science and modernization in Sweden: An
institutional approach to historicizing the knowledge society.
Thomas Kaiserfeld (Lund), Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as collaboration
across boundaries.
16.00-16.30
Short break / Coffee
SESSION 6
6a) MOUNTAINS AND AESTETHICS
Ernst H. Bjerke (Oslo), A Wanderer Above the Mist: B.M. Keilhau and the
Romantic movement.
Torild Gjesvik (Oslo), A Norwegian Sublime?
Marie-Theres Fojuth (Berlin), Mapping the Mountains: Railway Politics and
Geographical Knowledge in the Norwegian Parliament 1875-1898.
Jon R. Kyllingstad (Oslo), Geophysics and biology in a fishing nation.
16.30-18.30
6b) MATHEMATICS AND MAGNETISM
Vidar Enebakk (Oslo), Christopher Hansteen and the Mapping of Terrestrial
Magnetism.
Andreas Christiansen (Stord/Haugesund), A controversy about geometry
textbooks in Norway 1835-6.
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (Kristiansand), 75 years after Oslo 1936: The first
International Congress of Mathematicians in Scandinavia.
18.30-19.30
Reception at the Observatory