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Iordan Vassilev Avramov
04.04.1963
Bulgarian
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Study of the Societies and
Knowledge
4, Serdica Street
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
+359 2 988 38 87
iavramov@yahoo.com
Education
Area of scientific research:
History of Science; Science Studies;
Special interest in studies of early modern
scientific communication; the intellectual
correspondence networks of the 17th
century; early modern learned journals;
early modern scientific book reading.
Degrees
and academic ranks:
Ph.D. degree
1990-1994 Doctoral student in Science
Studies at the Centre for Science Studies
and History of Science, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. Title of the
PhD thesis: The Popularization of Science. This
was a study of 20th-century popularization
of science describing its chief actors and
models. Date of defense: January 1995.
MA degree
1984-1989
Student of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy, University of
Sofia "St. Klement Ohridski", Sofia,
Bulgaria. Title of MA thesis: The Emergent
Materialism of Joseph Margolis. Defended June
1989.
Awards,
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scholarly or other distinctions:
Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow at
Birkbeck College, University of London
(October, 1996 - September, 1997);
Marin Drinov Award for the best young
scholar of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences in Social Sciences and Humanities,
1997;
Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the
School of Advanced Study, University of
London (based both at the Warburg
Institute and the Institute of Historical
Research), (September, 2001 – June, 2002);
Dan David Prize Scholarship for studies of
the past, 2002 (nominated by the Warburg
Institute and awarded by the Dan David
Foundation).
Visiting Fellowship at Centre for Research
in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH), University of Cambridge,
(January – September, 2003);
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at their
Bellagio Study and Conference Center,
Bellagio, Italy, (May - June 2007),
among many others.
Practical experience
Scientific positions:
Since July 2010 I have been a Researcher at
the Institute for the Study of the Societies
and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences;
Since 1994 until June 2010 I was a
Researcher at the Centre for Science
Studies and History of Science, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences.
Editorship:
Member of Conselho Consultivo de
Anuário de Centro de Estudos de História
do Atlântico, Funchal, Madeira
Academic activities
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Participation in schools
and conferences:
I have been invited speaker to the
following events:
University History, University Collections and
University
Practices,
Third
National
Norwegian Conference of History of
Science,
(Trondheim,
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology,
October 2010);
Has the Emergence of Learned Journals in the
17th Century Brought New Styles of Thinking?,
Symposium in the framework of the 3rd
International Conference of the European
Society for the History of Science (Vienna,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, September
2008);
Interplay between Journals, (Vienna, University
of Vienna, September 2008);
Les journaux savants, formes de la communication
et agents de la construction des savoirs (XVIIe –
XVIIIe siècles), (Paris, Ecole normale
supérieure, February 2008);
Observation in Early Modern Letters (London,
Warburg Institute, June, 2007);
Institutional Contexts of Natural Philosophy
(Ghent, University of Ghent, April, 2006);
As Ilhas e a História da Ciência e das Técnicas.
Século XVI-XIX, (Funchal, Centro de
Estudos de História do Atlântico
September, 2005;
Scientific Periodicals in Modern Europe,
(Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek,
June, 2005),
among others.
Publications list:
Iordan Avramov, Michael Hunter and
Hideyuki Yoshimoto, Boyle’s Books: the
Evidence of his Citations, No. 4 in the
Occasional Papers of the Robert Boyle
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Project, (The Robert Boyle Project at
Birkbeck College, London 2010), ISBN
978-0-9551608-3-7; xxvi + 35 pp.; 6
illustrations.
Avramov, I., ‘Men of Science as Objects of
Observation in the Correspondence of
Henry Oldenburg, 1641-1677’, in Dirk van
Miert (ed), Observations in Early Modern
Letters (1500-1675), Warburg Institute
Colloquia, (London 2011), forthcoming;
Avramov, I., ‘Aspects of Robert Boyle’s
Book Experience: The Evidence of his
Correspondence’, in V. Bouzov (ed.),
Networks and Institutions of Knowledge in Early
Modern Europe, (Publishing House
“Abagar”, Turnovo 2010), 159-204;
Avramov, I., ‘Changing Epistolary Styles?
The Immediate Impact of the Early
Philosophical Transactions on the Scientific
Correspondence of the Royal Society of
London (1665-1677)’, in Styles of Thinking in
the History of Science, The Proceedings of the
3rd International Conference of the
European Society for the History of
Science, CD-Rom Edition, (Austrian
Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009), 752756.
Avramov, I., ‘Henry Oldenburg and the
Early Years of Philosophical Transactions,
1665 – 1677’, in V. Bouzov (ed.), Europe at
the Early Modern Period: Universities, Science,
Humanism, (Publishing House “Abagar”,
Turnovo 2009), 175-188;
Avramov, I., ‘The Seventeenth-Century
Scientific Letter and its Significance for the
Historical Studies of Early Modern
Science’, in Simeonova K. et al. (eds), Forty
Years of Science Studies in Bulgaria, (CSSHS
and “Avangard Prim” Press, Sofia 2008),
248-267, (in Bulgarian);
Avramov, I., ‘The Public and the Private in
the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg
(1641-1677)’, in V. Bouzov (ed.), European
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Institutions of Knowledge in the Early Modern
Period, (Publishing House “ODRI”, Vratza
2008), 104-124;
Avramov, I., ‘The Many Roles of Henry
Oldenburg and the Royal Society of
London (1641-1677)’, in V. Bouzov (ed.),
European Institutions of Knowledge in the Early
Modern Period, (Publishing House “ODRI”,
Vratza 2008), 81-103;
Avramov, I., ‘Island Science at the Early
Royal Society of London and the
Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg,
1660-1677’, in Vieira, Alberto (ed.), As Ilhas
e a Ciência História da Ciência e das Técnicas, I
Seminário Internacional, Secretaria
Regional do Turismo e Cultura, Centro de
Estudos de História do Atlântico (Funchal,
2005), 139-147;
Avramov, I., ‘Henry Oldenburg as Reader
at the Early Royal Society of London‘, in
Dankova R., Georgiev L., and Dankov E.
(eds.), Book Publishing and Philosophical
Culture, Vol. I, (University of St. St. Cyril
and Methodius Press: Veliko Tarnovo,
2005), 300-317, (in Bulgarian);
Avramov, I., 'The Birth of Philosophical
Transactions: Henry Oldenburg and the
Market for "Philosophical
Communication"', in Andrée Despy-Meyer
(ed.), Institutions and Societies for Teaching,
Research and Popularisation, Proceedings of
the XXth International Congress of History
of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997), vol.
XIX, in De Diversis Artibus, Collections of
Studies from the International Academy of
the History of Science, (Turnhout,
Belgium: Brepols, 2002), vol. 62 (N.S. 25),
265-270;
Avramov, I., 'Letter Writing and the
Management of Scientific Controversy:
The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg
(1661 - 1677)', in Toon Van Houdt, Jan
Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, Constant
Matheeussen (eds), 'Self-Presentation and
Social Identification: The Rhetoric and
Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early
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Modern Times', Supplementa Humanistica
Lovaniensia, vol. 18, (Leuven: Leuven
University Press, 2002), 337-363;
Avramov, I., '"Merchants of Light": The
Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg with
his Fellow "Intelligencers" (1656 - 1677)',
Wolfenbűtteler Barock-Nachrichten, vol. 27, Nr.
1, 2000, 3-18;
Avramov, I., 'An Apprenticeship in
Scientific Communication: The Early
Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg
(1656 - 1663)', Notes and Records of the Royal
Society, vol. 53, Nr. 2, 1999, 187-201;
Avramov, I., 'The Intellectual Dialogue in
Early Modern Science: a Hard Road to a
Fragile Tolerance? The Case of Henry
Oldenburg's Correspondence', in 'Society
in Transition', Proceedings of the Council of
Europe Conference held in V. Tarnovo,
Bulgaria, May, 1998, V. Tarnovo, 1999,
235-244,
among others.
Reviews writing:
Avramov, I., ‘Boiling Boyle Down to Two
Essences: Intellectual and Divine’, review
of M. Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science”,
(Yale University Press, New Haven and
London, 2009), pp. xii + 366,
DIVINATIO. Studia Culturologica Series,
Volume 32, Autumn-Winter 2010, 185-190;
Avramov, I., ‘First Secretary of the Royal
Society: Private Life and Public Career’
review of M. B. Hall, Henry Oldenburg:
Shaping the Royal Society, (Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2002), pp. xii + 369,
Endeavour, vol. 27, No. 1, March 2003, 1011;
Avramov, I., ‘Review: The Correspondence of
Robert Boyle, eds. Michael Hunter, Antonio
Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe, 6
vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto,
2001)’, On the Boyle, a newsletter of work in
progress on Robert Boyle (1627-91), Peter
Anstey and Michael Hunter eds., No. 5:
March 2002, 6-9.
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Participation in national/international
scientific research projects:
Early Modern Scientific Communication; The
Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, Individual,
long-term project on Henry Oldenburg (c.
1619-1677), the first secretary of the Royal
Society of London. Various funding from
the Royal Society, British Academy, Dan
David Foundation, etc. over the years.
1997- ; continuing;
The Scientific Book Culture in the Gregory Collins Correspondence (1668-1675).
Individual, short-term project with funding
from the British Academy and the Mellon
Foundation (May-June, 2004). Completed.
The Intellectual Correspondence of John Dury
(1596-1680); the Evidence of the Duriana in
Staatsarchiv Zurich and Other Sources.
Individual, short-term project funded by
the Swiss National Science Foundation
(May-July, 2006). Completed.
The Book Experience of Robert Boyle; The
Evidence of his Works, Correspondence, WorkDairies, and Manuscripts. Collective, midterm, international project funded by the
British Academy, the Royal Society of
London and the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences. 2004-2009. Completed.
Also several projects of various lengths
with funding exclusively from the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences dealing
mostly with early modern scientific
communication. All of them completed.
Among others…
Languages
Fluent English and Russian; fair French.
Computer skills
Windows XP, MS Office, Mozilla.
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