Ideas and Instruments in Social
Context
26 - 31 July, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
The Hungarian National IUHPS
Committee is pleased to invite you to attend and
take an active part in the XXIII International
Congress of History of Science and Technology in
Budapest between 26 and 31 July, 2009.
The XXIII International Congress
of History of Science and technology will be
supported by the Hungarian Government, the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Budapest City
Council, the Federation of Technical and
Scientific Societes and other local institutions
and organisations.
The World Academy of Young
Scientists (with its seat in Budapest) will
contribute to wide participation of young people
from all over the world.
Budapest is undoubtedly one of
the most beautiful metropoles in the world. The
warm hospitality of the people, excellent food
and wine, relaible and frequent public
transportaion, vivid culturallife, rich museums
attract millions of visitors every year.
Budapest is easy in reach, by air and on the
ground, visitor-friendly visa policy,
value-for-the-price services and goods, pleasant
climate also make Hungary one of the most
Popular meeting venues world-wide.
Corvinus University
Renseignements
First Circular
Organization
International Union of History
and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of
Science and Technology
(IUHPS/DHST)
Website :
http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/
Council (2005-2009)
President : Ronald NUMBERS, USA
Past President : Ekmeleddin
IHSANOGLU, Turkey
Secretary General : Efthymios
NICOLAIDIS, Greece
First Vice-President : LIU Dun,
China
Second Vice-President : Fabio
BEVILACQUA, Italy
Treasurer : Ida STAMHUIS,
Netherlands
Assistant Secretary General :
Éva VÁMOS, Hungary
Assessors
Lesley CORMACK, Canada
Ubiratan D’AMBROSIO, Brazil
Abdul Hafiz HILMY, Egypt
Michio YANO, Japan
Catherine JAMI, France
Alexey POSTNIKOV, Russia
1. International Program
Committee
President
Paolo GALUZZI (Italy)
Members
Razaullah S. M. Ansari (India)
Jim Bennett (UK)
Marco Beretta (Italy)
Michel Blay (France)
Christine Blondel (France)
Janet Brown (USA/UK)
Robert Bud (UK)
Pietro Corsi (Italy/UK)
Christopher Cullen (UK)
Claude Debru (France)
Thomas Glick (USA)
Barton Hacker (USA)
Robert Halleux (Belgium)
John Heilbron (USA/UK)
Albert van Helden (Netherlands)
Eberhard Knobloch (Germany)
Deepak Kumar (India)
Camilo Quintero (Columbia)
Jürgen Renn (Germany)
Francesca Rochberg (US)
Nicolaas Rupke (Germany)
Sujit Sivasundaram (UK)
Sona Štrbaňova (Czech Republic)
Representative of ICOHTEC
2. Local Organizing Committee
Chair
Éva VÁMOS, Hungarian Museum for
Science and Technology, Budapest
Vice-chair for local
arrangements
Gusztáv HENCSEY, SCOPE Meetings
Ltd.
Executive LOC
Mariann KINDL, SCOPE Meetings
Ltd.
Éva THIRY, SCOPE Meetings Ltd.
Scientific LOC
Lajos BARTHA, Independent
Researcher
György DARVAS, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences (ELTE)
Karl Hall, Central Europaen
University
Imre HRONSZKY, Budapest
Technical University
György KAMPIS, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences (ELTE)
Károly KAPRONCZAY, Semmelweis
Museum, Library and Archives of the History of
Medicine
László KOVÁCS, Teachers’
Training College Dániel Berzsenyi
Gábor KUTROVÁTZ, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences (ELTE)
Katalin MUNKÁCSY, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences (ELTE)
József NÉMETH, Budapest
Technical University
Mária PALASIK, Historic Archives
of State Security Services
Gábor PALLÓ, Institute for
Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences
Péter SZEGEDI, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences (ELTE)
Benedek VARGA, Semmelweis
Museum, Library and Archives of the History of
Medicine
Gábor ZEMPLÉN, Budapest
Technical University
3. Congress Secretariat
c/o SCOPE Ltd.
Kende u. 13-17.
phone : +36-1-209-6001
fax : +36-1-386-9378
e-mail : ichst09@conferences.hu
Program
1. Theme
Ideas and Instruments in Social
Context
The organizers encourage all
scholars to submit fully organized scientific
sessions, fully organized symposia and
individual papers related to the topic : "IDEAS
AND INSTRUMENTS IN SOCIAL CONTEXT”
This slogan, conjuring images of
both scientific theory and practice, is meant to
suggest a broad agenda, not a restrictive one.
The organizers welcome a wide range of proposals
for papers and sessions, covering any period
from antiquity to the present and any place on
the face of the globe.
Although all presentations should relate to the
history of science or technology, they may focus
on institutions as well as beliefs, inventions
as well as applications, the popular as well as
the abstruse. They may explore the historical
relations of science and technology with such
topics as politics, medicine, religion, gender,
education, and the arts-or look at the
intersection of the history of science and
technology with philosophy and sociology.
Ideas mean, in this respect, all
kinds of scientific, technical, philosophical,
religious, political and social ideas that
influenced, in a given period and in a given
area, the development of science and technology.
Topics that show the mutual influence of
philosophical, religious, political and social
ideas and scientific and technical development
are highly appreciated. The analysis of ideas
that brought into being or changed an instrument
or an institution forms also part of the topic.
All kinds of scientific and
technical instruments as preserved in museums,
descriptions, memories and in art belong to the
topic of the congress. The influence of the
instruments on the culture of the laboratories
and on everyday life in the different periods is
also a highly appreciated topic of the congress.
The history of all kinds of
„instruments” that helped or hindered the
development of science and technology like
legislation, international, state or local
influence institutions are incorporated into the
second part of the topic.
For much of the history of our
discipline, two separate and sometimes
antagonistic approaches to the history of
science have focused on the study of ideas, and
on the study of instruments. However, in the
past few decades, more and more scholars have
striven to integrate both aspects, showing that
instruments not only constitute the material
culture of science, but also shape and even
embody ideas. They are also central in
understanding how science operates within
societies, is shaped by the milieus as well as
the material conditions in which it is produced,
and in return contributes to the construction of
these societies. The advent of “Big Science” in
the twentieth century, closely dependent on
highly sophisticated and costly instruments, has
forcefully brought forward the importance of
their study by historians of science.
Moreover, the Budapest Congress
will be the first to be held after our
Division’s change of name from “Division of
History of Science” to “Division of History of
Science and Technology” in 2005. In order to
explicitly bring out the ways in which science
and technology have been interrelated in history
and how studies of both fields are
complementary, a series of plenary lectures,
symposia and special sessions will be devoted to
“Science and ideas in social context”, with the
aim of bringing together historians of science
and historians of technology, and to enhance
common discussion on objects that are
traditionally regarded as pertaining exclusively
to one or the other discipline.
2. Scientific Activities
Plenary
lectures given by invited experts ;
Sections
covering the history of science, technology and
medicine from antiquity to the present ;
Symposia
devoted to themes of current interest ;
Poster
sessions.
A joint mail from the Presidents
of both the IPC and the LOC is to be sent to all
Council members, IPC members, chairs of National
and Scientific Comissions, as well as some
selected scholars, inviting them to organize
symposia for this Congress. Proposals for
organizing symposia from other qualified
scholars are also welcome. Guidelines concerning
the nature and structure of a symposium can be
found at the Congress website.
3. Business Meetings
General
Assemblies of the IUHPS/DHS ;
Council
Meetings of the IUHPS/DHS ;
Meetings
of Commissions of the IUHPS/DHS ;
General
Assembly of the International Academy of History
of Science ;
Meetings
of other scientific associations and working
groups.
4. Other Activities
Display
and sale of books on history of science and
relevant subjects ;
Exhibitions
devoted to special topics ;
Various
cultural programs and local excursions ;
Practicalities
1. Dates
26-31 July 2009
2. Venue
Corvinus University of Budapest
3. Languages
Official
Documents and correspondence of
the Congress : English and French ;
Papers and Posters
The LOC suggests that
participants use DHST official languages in
their presentations in plenary lectures,
scientific sections, and symposia ; it also
follows the tradition of previous congresses of
accepting papers and posters written in other
languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German,
Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
4. Abstract
All abstracts will be submitted
to a peer review process. Abstracts can be sent
to the Congress Secretariat until 15 March 2009.
(The Abstract Form will be available soon.)
Papers reaching the Congress Secretariat after
15 March 2009 will not be accepted. No more than
one paper per person will be accepted.
5. Accommodation
Special hotel rates have been
negotiated for Congress participants. Most of
the selected hotels are within walking distance
of the Congress venue, or 20 minutes by public
transportation. The actual names of the hotels
and their prices will be available with the
Second Circular.
6. Expression of Interest
All those intending to take part
in the Congress are kindly requested to complete
the “Intention to Participate Form” for being
included in the official Congress Mailing List.
7. Registration Fees
Both on-line and off-line
registrations will be open in September 2008
(more than 6 months before the early
registration deadline).
The registration fees will
correspond to the rates of the previous
conferences. All services traditionally included
in the conference’s registration fee will be
provided for.
8. Grants
The Local Organizing Committee
will provide free registration to some
participants. In allocating this support,
preference will be given to applicants from
countries facing economic difficulties, as well
as young scholars. In order to assist such
colleagues, other applicants are asked to
explore other possible sources of help before
turning to us. If required, the LOC can provide
invitation letters.
Under no circumstances will the
LOC contribute to travel expenses.
Applicant has to send his/her
Curriculum Vitae to the Congress Secretariat
before 15 January 2009. Successful applicants
will be informed by 15 February 2009.
9. Further Information
The Congress Website will be
frequently updated in order to keep participants
informed about important information concerning
DHST activities and organization of the
Congress.
10. Important Dates
Deadline for symposia proposals
30 June 2008
Second Circular (Call for Papers
in Scientific Sessions, Grant information,
Registration information)
30 September 2008
Deadline for determination of
the final symposia programs
15 December 2008
Deadline for grant applications
15 December 2008
Deadline for early submission of
scientific sessions paper abstract*
15 January 2009
Deadline for the LOC
confirmation of grant applications
15 February 2009
Deadline for the LOC acceptance
of the scientific sessions papers received
before 15 January 2009
15 February 2009
Deadline for notification of
working meeting by DHS Commission
15 March 2009
Deadline for early registration
15 March 2009
Deadline for the LOC acceptance
of scientific session papers received between 15
January and 15 March 2009
15 April 2009
Deadline for hotel reservations
30 April 2009
Third Circular (Congress
schedule, Symposia, Scientific sessions)
31 May 2009
Congress program ready
31 May 2009
Program booklet printed
30 June 2009
Abstracts on the web
30 June 2009
Opening of the Congress
26 July 2009
*Speakers applying for grant
and/or request the acceptance letter for
processing the registration before the early
registration deadline must submit their
abstracts
before 15 January 2009.