International workshop "Science as Cultural Hegemony": on-line registration and draft programme
Lolo Valderrama
From: Agustí Nieto-Galan <agusti...@uab.cat>
Date: 2013/6/19
Subject: International workshop "Science as Cultural Hegemony": on-line registration and draft programme
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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
SCIENCE
AS CULTURAL HEGEMONY:
GRAMSCIAN CONCEPTS FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
22-23-24 January, 2014
Centre
d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
(SCHCT)
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC)
Barcelona
In spite of the
longstanding perception of modern science as value-free
knowledge of the external world, the boundaries between a
supposed ideology-free history of ideas and an
ideology-loaded social history of science have been
progressively blurred in the last decades. As a result,
criticisms of the autonomy and neutrality of modern
science have permeated more or less explicitly recent
historiography of science. Within such a framework, the
profiles, responsibilities and commitments of academics,
and especially of those involved in the natural sciences,
have been dramatically realigned.
As some recent scholarship has shown, of particular
significance in discussing these issues are the
reflections of the political thinker Antonio Gramsci
(1891-1937). In his Prison Notebooks of the 1920s and the
1930s, he provided scholars with an effective vocabulary
to critically grasp new interactions between science and
society. Key notions such as “cultural hegemony,” and the
role of the “intellectuals” (scientists, experts,
popularizers, educators), when raised within the context
of historiography of science, may help to articulate new
approaches for understanding the relationship between
science and social control.
The workshop aims at examining and assessing the ways in
which hegemonic values and science have been continuously
intertwined. It may provide the opportunity to bring to
surface the manner in which science—through its practices,
conceptions, justifications, transmission, circulation and
employment—mirrored power relations in the past.
Those attending the workshop but not
giving a paper will have to cover a
registration fee (50€).
Institut d’Estudis Catalans, C/Carme, 47
08001-Barcelona
Sala Pere i Joan Coromines
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014
15:00-15:15: Welcome
15:15-15-45: Introduction
Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Revisiting ‘Gramscianism’”
15:45- 17:15: Gramscian Concepts on Science
Chair and comments by: Massimiliano Badino (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Robert Jackson (King’s College,
London)
“Science and Ideology in Gramsci and Lukács”
Francesca Antonini (Universita di
Pavia)
“Science, history and politics in Gramsci’s thought.
Interpreting The Prison Notebooks in the light of the
concept of incompleteness”
Aaron J. Berstein (King’s College, London)
“The Role of Science in Gramscian Hegemony”
Manolis Simos (University of
Cambridge)
“Remarks on the Critique of Scientific Reason”
17:15-17:45: Coffee-Break
17:45-19:30: Science, authority and social control
Chair and comments by: Pietro Daniel Omodeo (MPI for History of Science, Berlin)
Ivan da Costa Marques
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
“On the limits of the authority of scientific facts”
Mariza Romero (Universidade
Católica de Sao Paulo)
“Science, nation-building and social exclusion: São
Paulo – Brazil – 1889/1930”
Sabine Arnauld (MPI for History of
Science, Berlin)
“The Invention of the Abnormal and the Emergence of
Medico-Pedagogy in France at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century”
Nahomí Galindo Malavé (Universidad
de Puerto Rico)
“Science, Hegemony, Empire and Gender in the Birth of
First Prison of Women Inmates, Escuela Industrial de
Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, 1954”
Volha Parfenchyk (Universita di
Torino)
“How healthy is healthy enough? Making sense of
preimplantation genetic testing through reconstructing
“the right to health”: the case of Italy”
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Thursday, 23 January 2014
09:45-11:00: Centre-Periphery as a Hegemonic Relation
Chair and comments by: Matthias Schemmel (MPI for History of Science, Berlin)
Alejandro Martínez (Universidad
Nacional de La Plata)
“Hegemony, “organic” intellectuals and center-periphery
relations in the sciences. The case of applied
entomology in Argentina (1930-1940)”
Jorge Bartolucci, Hector Vera et
al. (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
“North-South Relationship in the Development of Science
in Latin America”
Daniele Cozzoli (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
“Gramsci’s Legacy and the Discovery of the Other in
Post-war Italian Science: Biocca’s Expedition to
Amazonia”
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-13:00: Hegemony and Academic Disciplines (I): Natural Sciences
Chair and comments by: Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens)
Olival Freire Jr. (Universidade
Federal da Bahia)
“The saga of the quantum dissidents - Research on the
foundations of quantum mechanics 1950-1990”
Robert Marc Friedman (University
of Oslo)
“Appropriating the Weather: Gramscian Perspectives”
Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt
University, Berlin)
“The scientific intellectual, a hostile milieu, and a
cultural dispositif? Revisiting the historiography of
the interwar German physics community and its academic,
political and public discourses”
Marta Jordi Taltavull (MPI for
History of Science, Berlin)
“Re-defining Quantum and Classical Reality of Optical
Phenomena: A case for Hegemony”
13:15-15:15 Lunch
15:30-17:00: Hegemony and Academic Disciplines (II): Social Sciences
Chair and comments by: Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Leonardo Ramos, Javier Vadell, Pedro Neves (Universidade Católica da Minas Gerais) “Reading International Relations field through Gramscian lenses: Hegemony, place and intellectuals in the constitution of a social science”
Verena Halsmayer, Katherina Kinzel
(University of Vienna)
“Economists as Experts and Organic Intellectuals. On the
Functions of Economic Modeling in Social Planning and
Cultural Hegemony”
Brendan Hogan (New York
University)
“Hegemony, Social Science, and Democracy”
Piki Ish-Shalom (The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
“Democratic Peace: A Political Biography”
17:00-17:30: Coffee Break
17:30-19:00: Hegemony and Academic Disciplines (III): Humanities
Chair and comments by: Ivan da Costa Marques (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Fredericke Heinitz (Humboldt
University, Berlin)
“Tarantism and modernization: Gramscian ethnology in the
Italian South”
Stefano Salvia (Universita di
Pisa)
“For Insiders Only? Identity, Hegemony, and Expertise in
the Historiography of Modern Physics (c. 1960-2000)”
Nele Diekmann (Freie Universität,
Berlin)
“ ‘I looked on these tablets as a sort of game preserve’
– The policies of access to ancient script and artifacts
in early Victorian Assyriology”
Annelise Lannoy (Ghent University)
“The common cult of the historical truth. The formation
of History of Religions in France and the role of the
socio-cultural elites”
Dinner
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Friday, 24 January 2014
9:30-11:00: Intellectuals (I): Early Modern
Chair and comments by: Emma Sallent Del Colombo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Luis Miguel Carolino (Instituto
Universitario de Lisboa)
Carlos Ziller (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
“O pobre intelectual: Manuel G.G. Lourosa, the astronomy
and the political Restoration of Portugal in the 17th
century”
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (MPI for
History of Science, Berlin)
“Jesuit Science” Without Hegemony? A Historical and
Historiographical Problem
Lorelai Kury (Fiocruz-Rio de
Janeiro)
“Experience and Study in Francisco Antonio de Sampaio’s
Botanical Descriptions (Bahia, Brazil, Second Half of
the Eighteenth Century)”
Massimiliano Badino (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Physical Order vs. Divine Designer: Celestial Mechanics
and Natural Theology struggling for the System of the
World”
11:00-11:30- Coffee Break
11:30-13:15: Intellectuals (II): Modern
Chair and comments by: Daniele Cozzoli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Ana Simões (Universidade de
Lisboa)
Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo (Universidade Nova de
Lisboa)
“Rectors’ Scientists at the University of Lisbon under
the I Republic and the Dictatorship (1911-1974).
Political entanglements and scientific hegemony”
Adam Netzén (Royal Institut of
Technology, Stockholm)
“Gunnar Myrdal: The theory and practice of value-free
science and science-based politics”
Matteo Realdi (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
“(Re)positioning Jesuit cosmo-theology in Franco's
Spain. The place of the science of the universe in the
agenda of Antonio Romañá”
Lino Camprubí (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Engineering as cultural hegemony: from a history of
Francoism to a historiography of Gramsci”
Elisha Collier O’Brien (University
of Warwick)
“The ways in which Power Relations and Hegemonic Values
are reflected in the Dissemination of Information within
Pharmaceutical Science; A Critical Examination of the
Relationship between Intellectual Property Laws,
Universities and Pharmaceutical Science”
13:30-15:30: Lunch
15:45-17:15: Revisiting Science Popularization
Chair and comments by: Matteo Realdi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Hegemony and consent: Revisiting ‘popular science’
under a Gramscian framework”
Jaume Sastre-Juan (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Philanthropy, Mass Media and Cultural Hegemony: the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Politics of Science
Popularization in the 1930s”
Isabel Jiménez (Universidad de
Málaga)
Jorge Molero, Carlos Tabernero (Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona)
“The struggle for meaning in Q&A sections of the
Spanish press in the first third of the 20th Century.
The anarchist-libertarian and bourgeois-conservative
experiences”
Kostas Gavroglu (University of
Athens)
“Science popularization and the propagation of the
hegemonic ideology”
17:15-17:45: Coffee Break
17:45-18:45: Key-note lecture:
Roger Cooter (University College
London)
“Where does hegemony hang out today?”
18:45-19:15: Concluding remarks
and final discussion
(Kostas Gavroglu, Pietro Omodeo and Massimiliano Badino)
Farewell Dinner
Scientific Committee:
Massimiliano Badino, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona <Massimili...@uab.cat>
Kostas Gavroglu, University of Athens <kga...@phs.uoa.gr>
Agustí Nieto-Galan, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
<Agusti...@uab.cat>
Pietro Daniel Omodeo, MPIWG-Berlin <pdom...@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>
Matteo Realdi, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona <Matteo...@uab.cat>
Emma Sallent, Universitat de Barcelona <emma.s...@ub.edu>
Matthias Schemmel, MPIWG-Berlin <sche...@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>