Revised: 27 September 2011
14.00–20.00 Registration
15.00–17.00 Annual Meeting of the Officers and Scientific Board of European Society for the History of Science (Karolinum, room above Aula, 2nd floor)
18.00–20.00 Welcome Drink – Karolinum
Welcome Speeches:Prof. RNDr. Václav Hampl, DrSc., Rector of the Charles University
Prof. PhDr. Ivan Jakubec, Ph.D., President of the Czech National Committee for History of Science and Vice-Rector of the Charles University
Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Soňa Štrbáňová, Ph.D., President of the European Society for the History of Science
8.00–18.00 Registration
9.00 Introduction
Chair: Soňa Štrbáňová
9.30–10.00 Keynote Lecture – Petr SVOBODNÝ (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), Changing Places: Prague Universities in the Troubled 20th Century
10.00–10.30 Keynote Lecture – Dieter HOFFMANN – Jürgen RENN (MPI History of Science, Berlin, Germany), At the Cross Road – Einstein and Prague
10.30–10.50 Coffee Break
Chair: Michal Kokowski
10.50–11.10 Alena ŠOLCOVÁ (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), Einstein in Prague
11.10–11.30 Emilie TĚŠÍNSKÁ (Academy of Sciences of the CR, Prague, Czech Republic), Representation of the field of theoretical physics at Prague Universities: A. Einstein in Prague, his predecessors, successors and contemporaries
11.30–11.50 Andreas KLEINERT (Martin Luther University Halle/Saale, Germany), Anton Lampa (1868–1938) – the man who brought Einstein to Prague
11.50–12.10 Barbara WOLFF (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel), ”To be filed under E.“ Albert Einstein and his younger son, Eduard (1910-1965)
12.10–12.30 Ze´ev ROSENKRANZ (Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena, USA), Albert Einstein: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast?
12.30–12.50 Thomas NAUMANN (DESY Zeuthen, Germany), Der Alte würfelt nicht – Einstein’s Dialogue with God
Discussion
13.00–14.00 Lunch
Chair: Suzanne Débarbat
14.00–14.20 Thomas NAUMANN (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY Zeuthen, Germany), The Old One does not throw dice - Einstein's dialogue with God
14.20–14.40 József ILLY (Budapest / Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena, USA), ”A bit of techno here and there ...“ Einstein the Practical
14.40–15.00 Michal KOKOWSKI (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland), The Divergent Histories of Bose-Einstein Statistics
15.00–15.20 Hubert GOENNER (University Göttingen, Germany), Communication and Interaction among Research Groups in Classical Unified Field Theory, 1930–1969
Discussion
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
Chair: Miroslav T. Morovics
16.00–16.20 Erwin NEUENSCHWANDER (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Zurich as a Springboard for Young Leading Physicists and Mathematicians in the19th and 20th century: The Case of Albert Einstein and Hermann Weyl
16.20–16.40 Christof AICHNER – Tanja KRALER (University of Innsbruck, Austria), The Reforms of the Austrian Education System 1848–1860
16.40–17.00 Éva VÁMOS (Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport Budapest, Hungary), Forced Migration of Professors from 1851 to the 1860s, its Drawback and Results
17.00–17.20 Jan SURMAN (University of Vienna, Austria), ”Sentenced to Chernivtsi, Pardoned to Graz, Promoted to Vienna“? The Mobility of University Lecturers within Habsburg-Monarchy 1848– 1918
Discussion
(Academy of Sciences of the CR, Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Praha 6, transfer by buses from Na Příkopě 23 at 17.45)
Soňa ŠTRBÁŇOVÁ – Antonín KOSTLÁN (Academy of Sciences of the CR, Prague, Czech Republic), Exile as a Forced Migration – the Case of Scholars in the 20th Century
Discussion
9.00–12.00 Registration
Chair: Soňa Štrbáňová
9.30–10.00 Keynote Lecture – Mitchell G. ASH (University of Vienna, Austria), Mobility of
Scientists and Scholars in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Patterns, Problems and Prospects
Chair: Éva Vámos
10.00–10.20 Efthymios NICOLAIDIS (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece), The Creation of a European Science Curriculum: The Case of Greek Scholars in Central Europe Universities, 18th–19th Century
10.20–10.40 Attila Szilárd TAR (Krúdy Gyula Gimnázium Györ, Hungary), The Visiting Habits of Hungarian Students at German Universities in the 18th Century
10.40–11.00 Andor MÉSZÁROS (Faculty of Humanities, Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary), Students from Hungary at the Prague Universities from the Age of the Enlightenment until 1918
11.00–11.20 Emília VAZ GOMES – Augusto FITAS (Centro de Estudos de História da Ciencia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Portugese Science Scholars Visiting Europe at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Discussion
11.30–12.00 Coffee Break
Chair: Attila Szilárd Tar
12.00–12.20 Maria Teresa BORGATO (University of Ferrara, Italy), The Jesuit Caspar Ságner and his Influence in Natural Philosophy Teaching in Italy
12.20–12.40 László MOLNÁR (Archives uf Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary), Two Cases, Two Eras: Jan Nepomuk Czermak and Borisz V. Petrovszkij
12.40–13.00 Felicitas SEEBACHER (Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria), ”Sons of Scientia Chirurgica“. Theodor Billroth's Influence over his Assistant Physicians and its Implications in Europe
13.00–13.20 Kamila STAUDIGL-CIECHOWICZ - Tamara EHS, (University of Vienna, Austria) The members of the Faculty of Law and State between Prague and Vienna 1900 to 1938
Discussion
13.30–15.00 Lunch
Chair: Petr Svobodný
15.00–15.20 Fabio BEVILACQUA (University of Pavia, Italy), Pavia Perspectives on Scientific Prague
15.20–15.40 Katalin SIMON (Budapest City Archives, Hungary), The Faculty of Medicine in Pest and the Habsburg Empire in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
15.40–16.00 Audrone JANUŽYTÉ (Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Between National and International Interests: the New University of Lithuania during the Interwar Period
16.00–16.20 Jiří HNILICA (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), ”Missionaries of Science and Spirit“. The Topic of Visiting Professors Illustrated by the Example of Czechoslovak-French Cultural Relations in the Years 1918–1948
Discussion
9.00–11.00, Walk with Soňa Štrbáňová in the footsteps of Prague science in the Old Town
11.00–12.30, Coffee or lunch in Café Louvre, the favourite place of Einstein
12.30–14.30, Walk with Petr Svobodný around the Prague medical campus