This conference, being the final event in the series "Science in the Age of
Extremes: The Culture and Politics of Research in the 20th Century"
jointly sponsored by the Visiting Fellowship "Science and Society" of
Deutsche Bank AG and Frankfurt's SFB/FK 435 "Knowledge Culture and
Social Change", discussed the mutual
relations between reconfigurations of scientific research and modernist
trends in early 20th century culture.
For viewing abstracts of the talks, click on the titles of talks below. A volume containing the papers given at the conference is in preparation.
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9:10
Opening
9:20 - 10:10
Charlotte Bigg (Max-Planck-Institut for the History of Science -
Berlin, Germany):
Brownian
Motion Research c. 1900 and the Emergence of the Modern Physical
Sciences
10:10 - 11:00
Helge Kragh (University of Aarhus - Aarhus, Denmark):
Visions
of Revolutions: Cosmology and Cosmophysics in the Interwar Years
Coffee Break
11.20 - 12:10
Linda D. Henderson (The University of Texas - Austin, USA):
Modern
Art and Science 1900-1940: From the Ether and
a Spatial Fourth Dimension (1900-1920) to Einstein
and Space-Time (1920s-1940s)
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:50
Jose Ferreiros (Sevilla University - Sevilla, Spain):
Paradise Recovered?
Some
Thoughts on Mengenlehre and Modernism
15:00 - 15:50
Jeremy Gray (The Open University - Milton Keynes, UK):
Space
Ships and Jungles: Mathematics and Modernism
Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:05
Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens - Athens, Greece):
The
Electron's Hesitant Passage to Modernity, 1913-1925
17:15 - 18:05
Falk Müller (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Frankfurt am
Main, Germany):
Industrialising Electrons: Ernst Brüche and the Early Years of
Electron Microscopy
9:00 - 9:50
Uljana Feest (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science -
Berlin, Germany):
Quantifying
Gestalt Qualities
9:50 - 10:40
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, USA):
The Reactionary
Modernist Project of Neoliberalism:
Economics from Hayek to Chicago
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40
Jörg Kammerhofer (Friedrich Alexander University -
Erlangen,
Germany):
Hans Kelsen
as the
Epitome of
Legal Modernism
11:40 - 12:20
Commentary by Michael
Stolleis (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Frankfurt am
Main, Germany) and Discussion
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:50
Geert Somsen (University of Maastricht - The Netherlands):
'Modern' versus 'Traditional' in Colloid and Macromolecular Chemistry
15:00 - 15:50
Staffan Müller-Wille (ESRC - Exeter, UK):
Leaving
Inheritance Behind: Wilhelm Johannsen on Genetics and Eugenics
Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:05
Cornelius Borck (McGill University - Montreal, Canada):
Engineering Synaesthesia -
Prosthetic
Vision between Artistic Avantgarde and Modern Technoscience
17:15 - 18:00
Carsten Reinhardt (Regensburg University - Regensburg, Germany):
Commentary on Somsen,
Müller-Wille and Borck and Discusson
9:00 - 9:50
Karl-Heinz Kohl (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Frankfurt am
Main, Germany):
The
Concept of „Field“ in Early 20th Century Social
Anthropology and the Use of Audiovisual Media in Ethnographic
Research
9:50 - 10:40
Udo Roth (Ludwig Maximilian University - Munich, Germany):
The
Struggle between
Natural Sciences and German World View-Literature at the Beginning of
the 20th Century
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50
Dirk Vanderbeke (Ernst Moritz Arndt University - Greifswald,
Germany):
Time - And
Again. Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Philosophy, Science and Literature
in "Time and Western Man"
11:50 - 12:30
Commentary by Susanne Scholz
(Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, tbc) and Discussion
Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:05
Margarete Vöhringer (Bauhaus University - Weimar,
Germany):
A
Psychotechnical Laboratory of
Architecture - Avantgarde Art as Scientific, Artistic and Political
Enterprise in
Postrevolutionary Russia
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:20
Leo Corry (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and University of Tel Aviv,
Israel):
How Useful is the
Term 'Modernism'
for Understanding Twentieth-Century Mathematics?
16:20 - 17:00
Moritz Epple (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Frankfurt am Main,
Germany):
Modernism or
Modernisms in
the Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Some General Comments
17:00 Closing Discussion
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