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An overview of the program is below. For more details download the pdf here: (Last updated 31 August 2023)

https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/ecc-program-i8.pdf

Thursday, August 31

1 pm Walk from the Hotel to the Niels Bohr Archive

 

1.30-2 pm Registration

2-2.20 pm - Welcome 

2.20-3.50 pm - Session 1: Science Education. Diplomacy by Other Means

Commentator: Simone Turchetti

Chair: Joanna Behrman 

Christina Roberts: Spacemobile Goes Abroad. NASA’s Cold War Science Education Diplomacy, 1962-1969

Duim Huh: Ambivalent Connection between Scientific Thinking and Civic Responsibility. The Appropriations of Deweyan Science Education in Japan, 1920s–1950s

Loukas Freris: Small Devices and Design Advices. The Introduction of Radiation Protection Rules in Postwar Greece

3.50-4.10 pm Break

4.10-5.40 pm - Session 2: Gender, Race, Class, and the Physical Sciences

Commentator: Karin Tybjerg

Chair: Joanna Behrman 

Elizabeth Coquillette: Beyond the Stars. Examining Personal, Generational, and Social Impacts on the Careers of the Harvard Women Astronomical Computers (1875-1950)

Michelle Frank: Tangling with Entanglement History. Early Quantum Contributions of Chien-Shiung Wu

Nithyanand Rao: Invisible Labor and the “Ghost Particle”

6.15 pm Keynote (Lyne Starling Trimble History of Science Public Lecture)

Simone Turchetti: "Decolonize the IGY! Tales about Past Episodes of Scientific Collaboration and the Importance of Challenging them in the Future."

Turchetti is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine of the University of Manchester

Chair: Rebecca Charbonneau

The lecture will also be live-streamed via Zoom Webinar.

Afterwards: Informal Dinner

Friday, September 1

9-10.30 am - Session 3: Motivation and Interpretation

Commentator: Richard Staley

Chair: Rebecca Charbonneau 

Annelie Drakman: The Phun of Physics. The Emergence of Subjective Enjoyment as a Means of Motivating Scientific Pursuits after World War II

Miguel Ohnesorge: Recovering a Lost Arc in the History Statistical Inference. Geodetic Statistics from Laplace to Peirce

Lewis Bremner: Interpreting the World. Physics, Astronomy, and Translation in Tokugawa Japan

10.30-11am Break

11-12.30 pm - Session 4: International Exchange

Commentator: Christian Joas

Chair: Climério Silva Neto 

Masahiro Inohana: Ryokichi Sagane's Actions and Ideas on Introduction of Foreign Nuclear Reactors to Japan

Hiroto Kono: Shōji Nishikawa’s Research and Education in Crystallography

Jinyan Liu: Chinese Scientists in Dubna (1956-1965)

12.30-2 pm Lunch

2-3.30 pm - Archive guided tour

30 minutes, Auditorium A: An introduction into the collections of the Niels Bohr Archive

60 minutes: Historical tours at the Niels Bohr Institute (including Niels Bohr’s historic office)

3.30-4 pm Break

4-5.30 pm - Session 5: Physics in Weimar Culture

Commentator: Christoph Lehner

Chair: Magnus Bøe

Elena Schaa: A Romantic Genius? Science and Religion in Werner Heisenberg’s Popular Communication

Thijs Latten: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger’s Work

Sofia Guilhem Basilio: Intellectual Environment and the Development of Quantum Theory. An Analysis of Erwin Schrödinger’s Work

6-7 pm - IUPAP early career prize AWARD

Award by the president of the Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUCHPP) Jaume Navarro 

Jean-Philippe Martinez: Complexity in the history of science.

Saturday, September 2

9-10.30 am - Session 6: Instruments and Methods

Commentator: Jaume Navarro

Chair: Climério Silva Neto

Enes Tepe: Cross-cultural Analysis of Timekeeping Instruments. Two examples of Mizzī & Sutton

Jack Klempay: Matters of Record. Film, Paper, and the “Bureaucratic Media” of Radiation Protection at Nuclear Test Sites

E.L. Meszaros: Algorithmic Relationships in Babylonian Astronomical Procedure Texts

10.30-11 am - Break

11-12.30 am - Session 7: Ways of Seeing

Commentator: Hanne Andersen

Chair: Julia Bloemer    

Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan: How Astronomers Learned to See Gravitational Lenses, 1960-1990

Michelle Mercier: How to see and how to communicate what has been seen? The Case of Thomas Young’s Double-slit Experiment (1807)

Amelia Urry: Feeling into Ice, Seeing through Time. Radar Sounding and the Archaeology of Data

12.30-2 pm Lunch

2-3.30 pm Session 8: Politics of Physics After World War II

Commentator: Kristine Harper

Chair: Julia Bloemer    

Barbara Hof and Gerardo Ienna: Physicists “on Trial”. The Accusations of European Radicals in the Context of the US Military Operation in Vietnam

Michiel Bron: Radioactive Knowledge. The Role of Oil Geologists and Geophysicists in the Development of the Nuclear Industry

Madison Renner: Crafting a History for Climate Science. How the Keeling Curve became a Discovery

3.30-3.45 pm - Break

3.45-5.45 pm Career training round table

Chair: Christian Joas (NBA Copenhagen)

Speakers: 

Ryan Dahn, Books Editor at Physics Today.

Robert Naylor, Assistant Editor at Physics in Perspective.

Joanna Behrman, Assistant Public Historian at the Center for History of Physics (CHP) of the American Institute of Physics.

7 pm - Conference dinner at Tivoli

Sunday, September 3

9-10:30 am Session 9: Seeking the (Un)seen

Commentators: Helge Kragh and Anja Skaar Jacobsen

Chair: Magnus Bøe

Valentina Roberti: The Helmholtz Legacy in Color Theory. An Account of Schrödinger’s Research on Color

Urko Gorriñobeaskoa: The Semantic Layers of Ether

Jean-Philippe Martinez: The Strange Concept that Almost Nobody Seemed to be Concerned about. Virtual Particles in the Early Post-war Period

10:30-11 am - Break

 

11:00 am - Final Discussion

Chair: Joanna Behrman

12 pm - Farewell. Have a safe journey home