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History of Science in Practice Program

Download the final conference program (pdf file). The file contains the merged program of the International Conference with the Panhellenic Conference.
See also this file with a list of places for snacks and lunch. Details about the Conference Dinner.

Wednesday 05 May
Schedule Title Speaker(s) Venue
16:30 - 17:30 Registration
17:30 - 17:40 Opening Ceremony
17:40 - 18:20 Science, Worldviews and Education Michael R. Matthews Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
18:20 - 19:00 Can we create a non-Eurocentric textbook of history of science? A perspective from East Asia Catherine Jami Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
19:40 - 21:00 Reception
Thursday 06 May
Schedule Title Speaker(s) Venue
09:00 - 09:20 Beyond Narrative: interpreting history of science in public contexts without selling out to comforting expectations Joseph N. Tatarewicz Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:20 - 09:40 Temporary exhibitions and their consequences: On Growth and Form 1951 and the beginnings of the "public understanding of science" at the Festival of Britain
Assimina Kaniari
Maria Rentetzi
Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:40 - 10:00 What a history of science museum can offer to the public? Examining the field through examples and initiatives Flora Paparou Lecture Room
10:00 - 10:20 Why teach History of Early Modern Chemistry? Remi Franckowiak Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:20 - 10:40 The History of Ancient Greek Mathematics as a guide of mathematical research Christina Fili Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Can a "wretched subject" like divination be seen as part of the history of science? The example of ancient Chinese planetary astronomy. Christopher Cullen Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
13:00 - 16:30 Break
16:50 - 17:10 About the Urania theatre and Kövesligethy’s “The Harmony of the Spheres”
Magda Vargha
Zoltán Kolláth
 Lecture Room
17:10 - 17:30 Considering the History of Classical Scholarship in the Epistemological Genre: The Reference Model of the Dutch Scholars of the 18th century Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros Lecture Room
17:30 - 17:50 Pythagorean Philolaus’ pyrocentric universe: its significance and contribution to astronomy and astrophysics Yiorgo N. Maniatis Lecture Room
17:50 - 18:10 Coffee Break
18:10 - 18:50 History of Climate Change in the Age of Climate Change: Issues in Teaching Vladimir Jankovic Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
18:50 - 19:30 History of Science and Contemporary Problems: the case of Greenhouse Aleksandar Petrovic Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
Friday 07 May
Schedule Title Speaker(s) Venue
09:00 - 09:20 Exploring the creation of a common European textbook of the history of science. Challenges and Promises Michal Kokowski Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:20 - 09:40 A common European textbook for the History of Science and the Eurocentric perception of Science Konstantinos Nikolantonakis Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:40 - 10:00 Learning from the History of Mathematics Eduard Glas Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:00 - 10:20 Can we determine the exact time of declination of science in Islamic Period? Amir Mohammad Gamini Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:20 - 10:40 The byzantine sciences in the first modern Greek History of Science textbook Gianna Katsiampoura Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 A general history of sciences for a broad public. Is it a reasonable purpose? Vincent Jullien Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
11:40 - 12:20 The scientific revolution — the "master narrative" finally replaced H. Floris Cohen Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
12:20 - 13:00 Regional, National and European Histories of Science: Conflict or Coexistence? Jeff Hughes Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
13:00 - 16:30 Lunch
16:30 - 16:50 Experience of the Teaching of the Postgraduate Students in the History and Philosophy of Science in the Russian Academy of Sciences
Galina V. Gorokhova
Vitaly G. Gorokhov
Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
16:50 - 17:10 Ukrainian Textbooks of History of Science Svitlana Ruda Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
17:10 - 17:30 Teaching Descartes' philosophy through the history of science Epaminondas Vampoulis Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
17:30 - 17:50 History of Physics in Practice: Innovation course «History of Physical Concepts Development» in the National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute»
L. Ponomarenko
A. Lytvynko
 Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
17:50 - 18:10 Coffee Break
18:10 - 18:50 Exploring the Universe: History of Modern Cosmology and its Role in Science Teaching Helge Kragh Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
18:50 - 19:30 The practice of science in science teaching: experiences with reconstructed historical instruments Peter Heering Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
Saturday 08 May
Schedule Title Speaker(s) Venue
09:00 - 09:20 Problems of the Combination of Social and Methodological Analysis of the History of the Science in the Teaching of Engineering Sciences (Case Studies of the Historical Development of Radar Science and Technology) Vitaly Gorokhov Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:20 - 09:40 Against Chronological Accounts of the History of Science Gustaaf C. Cornelis Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
09:40 - 10:00 Explanation or interpretation in the theaching of history of science? Pournari Maria Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:00 - 10:20 Exhibiting the Tree of Life
Ana Barahona
Erica Torrens
 Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:20 - 10:40 Mathematical Models in Ecology: More than Indigestible Formulas? Ageliki Lefkaditou Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 The notion of mathematics - An historico-epstemological approach using K. Schott's "Encyclopedia of all mathematical sciences" Eberhard Knobloch Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
11:40 - 12:20 Including history in a mathematics module - practice and theory. Wilfrid Hodges Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
13:00 - 16:30 Lunch
16:30 - 16:50 Blurring the line between Art and Science Kateryna Gamaliya Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
16:50 - 17:10 Aesthetics priciples in history of physics
Svitlana D. Gapochenko
Andrei A.Mamalui
 Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
17:10 - 17:30 The focused interview as epistemological instrument in the recent history of science Erika Lazarova Amphitheatre "Leonidas Zervas"
17:50 - 18:10 Coffee Break
18:10 - 18:30 History of innovation should be to import the mainstream history of science - on the positioning of the history of management-science
XU Kang
HE Chao
 Lecture Room
18:30 - 19:00 On Principles In Sadi Carnot’s Heat Theory (1824) Raffaele Pisano Lecture Room
19:00 - 19:30 The Discovery of Insulin and Diabetes in Mexico
Ma-Alicia Villela
Ana Barahona
 Lecture Room
19:30 - 20:00 Historical exemplars in order to classify the construction process of the analogical source in physical-mathematical creativity Alain Ulazia Manterola Lecture Room
20:00 - 20:30 The role of the History of Mathematics in Teaching, as recorded via questionnaire Maria Terdimou Lecture Room