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Summer School 2010 - Concept | Programme | Speakers | Participants | Report
Programme
Sunday, July 25
Arrival of participants
6 to 8 pm:
Welcome Dinner, Karl Jaspers Centre
Monday, July 26
9.30 to 10.30 am: Opening Session
Welcome (Acting Director of the Heidelberg Cluster)
Introduction (Joachim Kurtz, Heidelberg)
10.30 to 11 am: Coffee break
11 am to 12.30 pm: Keynote Lecture:
Rivka Feldhay (Tel Aviv University): "Migrating Knowledge: An Epistemic-Political Stance"
12.30 to 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 to 5 pm: Session I – Geographies of Knowledge
1.30 to 3 pm:
Dhruv Raina (JNU, Delhi): "Changing Questions: Revisiting the Dialogue between Jesuit Missionaries and Jai Singh’s Astronomers"
3 to 3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30 to 5 pm:
Henrique Leitao (Lisbon): "What is Science For? Instruments and Techniques in the Hands of Sailors and Missionaries during the Portuguese Maritime Expansion"
Evening Programme:
Walk through historic town of Heidelberg
Tuesday, July 27
9 am to 12.30 pm: Session II – Agents, Networks, Pathways
9 to 10.30 am:
Dagmar Schäfer (MPIWG, Berlin): "Methods of Communication: Models, Sketches, and Migration in Asia"
10.30 to 11 am: Coffee Break
11 am to 12.30 pm:
Marcus Popplow (Heidelberg): "Storage Devices: Drawings and Models in Circulations of Technical Knowledge in Pre-industrial Europe"
12.30 to 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 to 5 pm: Session III – Media of Circulation
1.30 to 3 pm:
Yu Li (Williams College): "Printing, Books, and Reading: Behind Movements of Knowledge"
3 to 3.30 pm: Coffee Break
3.30 to 5 pm:
Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg): "Information, Knowledge and Technology: Telegraphic Information Flows in the Nineteenth Century"
Evening Programme:
Boat trip on the Neckar river
Wednesday, July 28
9 am to 12.30 pm: Session IV – Translation and Domestication
9 to 10.30 am:
Benjamin Zachariah (ZMO, Berlin): “In Pursuit of Moving Ideas: Notes on the Chase”
10.30 to 11 am: Coffee Break
11 am to 12.30 pm:
Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg): "Meanings in Migration: Translation Strategies in East Asian Adaptations of European Science and Philosophy"
12.30 to 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 - 5 pm: Session V – Digital Storytelling in the History of Science and Thought
1.30 to 3 pm:
Hugh Shapiro (Reno): "Letting the Patient Speak: Narrating Clinical Encounters in Early Twentieth-Century China"
3 to 3.30 pm: Coffee Break
3.30 to 5 pm:
Grace Shen (York): "The Play's the Thing: Communicating Knowledge through Novel Representations, Physicality, and Play"
Thursday, July 29
9 am to 12.30 pm:Session VI – Group Work I
9 am to 12.30 pm (with a coffee break of 30 minutes):
Preparation of Group Work
Coordination: Dominic Steavu and Martin Hofmann (Heidelberg)
12.30 to 1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30 to 5pm: Session VII - Group Work II
1.30 to 3 pm:
Presentations of Group Work
3 to 3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30 to 5 pm:
Concluding Discussion, Evaluation of Summer School
Evening programme:
Visit to a wine cellar and farewell party
Friday July, 30
Departure of participants
