Conference: How Sciences End
11 July - Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road
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09:00-09:30 |
Welcome (Coffee/Tea/Refreshments) |
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09:30-11:00 |
Mind, Body, Soul (Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova) |
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Grace Whorrall-Campbell (University of Oxford) The Rise and Fall of Organisational Psychoanalysis: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain |
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Rakel Gunnemark (University of Gothenberg) The Seismograph of the Soul: The Decline of Graphology at the End of the 20th Century |
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Yoav Beirach (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) On Perception, Mathematical Violence, and the Afterlife of Sciences: Did the 17th Century European "Science of Music" Really Come to an End? |
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11:00-11:30 |
Break |
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11:30-12:50 |
Ends of Sciences in Conversation 1 (Chair: Alex Aylward) |
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Scientific Atheism Katarzyna Jarosz (University of Wrocław) The Soviet War on Faith: The Rise and Decline of Scientific Atheism Eva Guigo-Patzeltz (EHESS/CNRS Paris) "Marxist‐Leninist religious science", or How to Pass on Scientific Atheism beyond the Collapse of Real Socialism |
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Classifying People John Shepherd (Durham University) Trying to End Lombrosian Criminology in the United States Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) Did Physiognomy Disappear?: Anthropology and the Idea of Beauty in the Late 19th Century |
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12:50-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Physics (Chair: Joe Martin) |
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Hiroto Kono (National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan) New Practices from a Dissolved Tradition: The Rise and Fall of "Terada Physics" in Early 20th Century Japan |
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Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country) The End of Aether Physics: Historiographical Perspectives |
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Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University of Berlin) The End of Naturforschung?: Philipp Lenard's Plea Not to Become a Scientist |
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15:30-15:45 |
Break |
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15:45-16:45 |
Astronomy and Astral Science in India (Chair: Michelle Pfeffer) |
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Shaan Kashyapp (Ravenshaw University) The End of Siddhānta Astronomy: Text and Apparatuses of a Naked Eye Indian Astronomer |
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S Prashant Kumar (University of Chicago/NCBS Bengaluru) Seeing as Believing: Observation and Evidence in Jyotihśāstra, 1837–1903 |
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16:45-19:00 |
Break |
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19:00 |
Optional Conference Dinner: Linacre College |
12 July – Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford
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09:00-10:30 |
Early Modern Ends (Chair: Michelle Pfeffer) |
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Xinqi Wen (University of Cambridge) Beyond the Invention of Tradition: A Reversed History of the Doctrine of Signatures |
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Rodolfo Garau (University of Hamburg) The Fronde, the Court, and the Cosmos: Morin, Gassendi, and Astrology's Decline in 17th-Century France |
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John R R Christie (University of Oxford) The Ends of Alchemy |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:20 |
Ends of Sciences in Conversation 2 (Chair: Joe Martin) |
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Psychical Research and Parapsychology Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (University of Cambridge) Imperialism, Civil War and Psychical Research in Wartime China: Fall or Transformation? Alicia Puglionesi (Johns Hopkins University) The Once and Future Parapsychology: “The Telepathy Tapes” and the Rebirth of Parascience in the Post-Truth Era |
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The Human Sciences Julia Gustavsson (University of Oxford) “[A] changed and changing world”: Professional Expertise and the Fading of Child Study as a Science in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain Lufeng Xu (EHESS Paris) The End of the “Science of Man”?: Marcel Maus's Quest for the “Science of Total Man” |
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12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
Sciences of Inheritance (Chair: Greg Radick) |
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Wessel de Cock (Humboldt University of Berlin) The Contingent Demise of Classical Genetics in the Molecular Revolution (1958–1962) |
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Vedran Duančić (University of Klagenfurt) The End of Lysenkoism in Socialist Yugoslavia |
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Mia Levenson (Johns Hopkins University) The End of Eugenic Science in the United States |
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15:00-15:30 |
Break |
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15:30-16:30 |
Fragmentation and Consolidation (Chair: Alex Aylward) |
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Jarrod Hore (University of New South Wales) Three Challenges in Space/Time: Planetary Consciousness and the Disintegration of Nineteenth-Century Geology |
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Hansun Hsiung (Durham University) How Did Neo-Confucian Nature End? |
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16:30-16:45 |
Break |
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16:45-17:30 |
Roundtable (Rob Iliffe, Ludmilla Jordanova, Greg Radick) |
