Scientific program
Wednesday November 5
Venue: HVL
12:00 13:00 – Registration
13:00-13:15 – Welcome (Room F119)
13:30-14:45 – Parallel session A and B
Session A: Meetings between science and policy. Research policy in the post-war period in Norway and Sweden
Room F119
Chair: Magnus Vollset
- Vera Schwach & Kari Tove Elvbakken: «Priority and downplay: The role of public research institutes in Norwegian policy for research»
- Per Lundin & Ingemar Pettersson: «Setting the Stage for Science Policy: The Parliamentary Debate on Research in 1960s Sweden»
- Terje Finstad: «Universities and research institutes in the innovation economy, from 1960s to today»
Session B: Scientific collections and heritage
Room F204
Chair: Gunnar Ellingsen
- Camilla Bergen Vik, Thi Thanh Thao Dinh, Helena Bichao & Annette Lykknes: «Locating historical ways of communicating «heat» to inform science teaching»
- Anne Vaalund: «Gems from the university clutter: Reflections on how to catch and preserve histories of academic material heritage»
- Roland Wittje & Ida Margrethe Klingvall: «The Atom in the Universe: Heritage and History at the Physics Department of the University of Oslo»
14:45-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:30 – Session C
Session C: Communications and visualizations. The Sciences and the Sàmi in the nineteenth and twentieth century
Room F119
Chair:Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
- Jukka Nyyssönen: «Communicating knowledge on the Skolt Sámi in unstable contexts: Väinö Tanner and the unclarified colonial potencies of Finland»
- Astri Andresen: «Scientists/scholars and organic intellectuals on Sámi culture and utilization of land»
- Svein Atle Skålevåg: «Prince Roland Bonaparte and the anthropology of the Sàmi, 1884»
Thursday November 6
Venue: Bergen University Museum (map)
09:00-09:45 – Museum experience
09:45-10:30 – Keynote 1: Anne Eriksen: «Bergen Museum 1825. Knowledge for a Public Sphere»
Room: Tårnsal
11:15 – 12:30 – Parallel Session E and F
Venue: HVL
Session E: The museum as a scientific site
Room: F119
Chair: Peder Roberts
- Natalija Ćosić: «The Museum as an Epistemic Arena: Scientific Authority and Knowledge Production of Lepenski Vir»
- Paola Bernadette Di Lieto: «Communicating Scientific Memory: Museums, Objects, and Cultural Heritage in Modern Italy»
- Phil Loring: «The curator is the problem»
Session F: Science that shapes society
Room F204
Chair: Årstein Svihus
- Jon Røyne Kyllingstad: «Historicizing intelligence: tests, metrics and the shaping of contemporary society»
- Ageliki Lefkaditou: «Between Numbers and Life Paths: The Practice of IQ testing in School Transfers in Oslo, 1930s–50s»
- Harriet Palfreyman & Elizabeth Toon: «Using history of science in teaching science communication»
12:30-13:30 – Lunch (HVL Cafeteria)
13:30 – 15:15 – Parallel session G & H
Session G: Communicating and producing science
Room F119
Chair: Svein Atle Skålevåg
- Phillip Roth: «Formalizing Informal Communication: The Origins of the Preprints Exchange System in High-Energy Physics in the 1960s»
- Hari Sridhar: «Spark, scaffold, substrate: the multiple hidden roles of natural history in ecology and evolutionary biology»
- Marius Buning: «Privileges, Print, and Power: Governing Scientific Communication in Early Modern Europe»
Session H: Science in the Cold War
Room F204
Chair: Astri Andresen
- Ahto Apajalahti: «Constructing a liberal democracy: Western science communication in the Cold War context»
- Tsira Chikvaidze and Tina Gudushauri: «Science under the Red Star: Posters as Propaganda and Mass Communication Tools in the Soviet Empire»
- Elena Kochetkova: «Making Food Modern: Food Chemistry and the Project of Synthetic Food in Eastern Europe during the Cold War»
- Peder Roberts: «The Military Advantages of Unclassified Research in 1950s Arctic North America»
15:15 – 15:45 – Break
15:45 – 17:00 – Session I
Session I: Medicine, ideology, and remarkable cures
Room F119
Chair: Elena Kochetkova
- Lise Camilla Ruud: «Testicle juice»
- Vincent Roy-Di Piazza: «Medical authority and the racial anatomy of skin: the case of Abraham Bäck (1713-95)»
18:30-19:30 – Guided Tour, Venue: Fiskerimuseet (map)
19:30-22:00 – Conference Dinner, Venue: Fiskerimuseet
Friday November 7
Venue: HVL
09:00-09:45 – Keynote II: Staffan Bergwik: «Epochs, trajectories, rhythms: Visions of historical time and scientific knowledge in the 20th century»
09:45-10:15 – Break
10:15-11:30 – Parallel session J and K
Session J: Museums and the exchange of knowledge
Room D121
Chair: Thomas Brandt
- Solveig Marie Siem: «Spreading Skills and Sprouting Opportunities: Active Knowledge Exchange via Botanical Museums and Gardens in Nineteenth Century Norway»
- Lisa Sputnes Mouwitz: «The Guest Book – tracing practical knowledge transfer within a museum’s collection»
- Hege Roll-Hansen: «Tracing the Origins of the Norwegian Mining Museum in Kongsberg»
Session K: Science made by people in time and space
Room D122
Chair: Ageliki Lefkaditou
- Brigitte Van Tiggelen & Annette Lykknes: «Writing About Gender and Women Studies and Their Relation to the History and Historiography of Chemistry»
- Karen A Rader: «Correspondence as Informal Education: Adult Distance Learners, Scientists, and their Pedagogies, 1930-1950»
11:45-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-14:30 – Session L
Session L: Health, disease, and medicine in the 19th century (and Tank Work)
Room D121
Chair: Svein Atle Skålevåg
- Andreas Jüttemann: «How pan-European scientific communication contributed to the fight against the re-emergence of leprosy in the Baltic States in the 19th century»
- Jenny Sure: «The Construction of a Collective Fear? Yellow Fever in the German Media from 1800 to 1806»
- Shan Jiang & Ulrike Spring: «Carl Peter Thunberg and the circulation of bloodletting knowledge in Europe and Japan (late 18th and early 19th centuries)»
- Thomas Brandt: «Tank Work: The Trondheim Ship Model Tank and the International Circulation of Ship Modelling Knowledge ca 1930s-1960s»
14:30-15:30 – General Assembly
Room F119
Chair: Annette Lykknes