Ignaz-Lieben-Workshop 2010:

»Networks of Communication and Mobility in the Sciences and Technology Central Europe in the Interwar Period«

Zeit und Ort: 12. – 13. November 2010, Vienna University of Technology
Seminarraum "Boecklsaal"
Main Building, 1st Floor, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna

Organisation: Ignaz L. Lieben-Gesellschaft

Friday, November 12, 2010
Opening
09:00 - 9:30	Johannes Fröhlich Mitchell Ash
Session 1: Networks and Migrations Old and New
9:30 – 10:15	Michael Simunek: Between Old and New: New Trends and Institutions in Scientific Research in Czechoslovakia after 1918 (Abstract)
10:15-11:00	Silke Fengler: (Dis-)Continuities of the Exner Circle. On the Construction of Collegial Networks Among Austrian Physicists (1930s-1950s) (Abstract)
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00	Doubrava Olsakova: Czech-French Scientific Contacts (Abstract)
12:00 - 12:45	Tomas Hermann: Influence of Emigrant Russian Biologists on Czechosolvak Science (Abstract)
12:45 – 13:30	Lunch
Session 2: Fields of Knowledge I: Climatology, Pharmacy, Life Sciences
13:30 – 14:15	Christa Hammerl: Victor Conrad - Seismology und Climatology between Vienna, Czernowitz and USA (Abstract)
14:15 – 15:00	Christa Kletter: Pharmacy in Austria in the Interwar Period (Abstract)
15:00 – 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 – 16:00	Veronika Hofer: Armin von Tschermak-Seysenegg, a Rebel with Causes? Challenging the Center/ Periphery Theory of Intellectual Circulation in Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Austria (Abstract)
16:00 - 16:45	Cheryl Logan: Neo-Lamarckian Networks of Ethical Eugenics: Paul Kammerer and others (Abstract)
Session 3: Fields of Knowledge II: Physics, Chemistry
16:45 - 17:30	Robert Rosner: "Mikrochemie" – a Journal for a Young Branch of Science (Abstract)

Saturday, November 13, 2010
Session 3: Fields of Knowledge II: Physics, Chemistry
9:00 – 9:45	Juliane Mikoletzky: The Institutionalization of Technical Physics as an Academic Discipline in the Interwar Period (Abstract)
9:45 – 10:30	Miguel Friedmann / Wolfgang Reiter / Petra Svatek: Between Tradition and Modernity: Analysis of Physics Curricula at Austrian Institutions of Higher Education, 1915 to 1940 (Abstract)
10:30 -10.45	Coffee break
Session 4: Fields of Knowledge III: Science-Based Technology
10.45 - 11:30	Wolfgang Meixner: The Beginning of Powder Metallurgy in Tyrol by a Prague Chemist (Abstract)
11:30 – 12:15	Thomas Lebeth: The Relevance of International Networks in the Production of Radio Tubes during the Interwar Period (Abstract)
Concluding Discussion
12:15 – 13:00	Concluding Discussion