El 30 de setembre, Klaus Taschwer, periodista del diari austriac “Der Standard” impartir\u00e0 la confer\u00e8ncia “The Toad Kisser and the Bear Cave. Revisiting the Case of Paul Kammerer” a la Resid\u00e8ncia d’Investigadors del CSIC (10:00-11:30).<\/p>\n
La confer\u00e8ncia anir\u00e0 seguida de la presentaci\u00f3 exclusiva de la pel\u00b7l\u00edcula Salamandra<\/em> (12:00-13:00), sent la primera sessi\u00f3 d’un cicle de CINE i CI\u00c8NCIA<\/em> que tindr\u00e0 lloc a Barcelona durant els pr\u00f2xims mesos mitjan\u00e7ant la col\u00b7laboraci\u00f3 entre la SCHCT, el CEHIC, i l’IMF. L’acte de Taschwer est\u00e0 organitzat i ser\u00e0 presentat per Oliver Hochadel, de la Instituci\u00f3 Mil\u00e0 i Fontanals.<\/p>\n A continuaci\u00f3, el resum de la confer\u00e8ncia i pel\u00b7l\u00edcula presentades per Klaus Taschwer:<\/p>\n The Toad-Kisser and the Bear-Cave. Revisiting the Case of Paul Kammerer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Paul Kammerer (1880\u20131926) was one of the most controversial and tragic figures in the history of biology of the early 20th century. For a\u00a0 quite short time, the Viennese zoologist became world-famous with his\u00a0 experiments with toads and salamanders that showed the inheritance of\u00a0 acquired characteristics.<\/p>\n In 1926, a zoologist from New York came to Vienna and found out that a\u00a0 conserved midwife-toad, one of the crucial specimens of Kammerer\u2019s collection, had been manipulated. A few weeks after this discovery was revealed in the magazine Nature, Kammerer committed suicide, which of\u00a0 course was interpreted as a confession of guilt. Consequently, his neo-Lamarckist theories were banned in the West (but not in Soviet-Union,\u00a0 where it served as a basis for Lyssenkoism) until very recently.\u00a0 (Today, his experiments are being re-evaluated in the light of\u00a0 epigenetics.)<\/p>\n The criminal case itself, the topic of hundreds of accounts (one book, book-chapters, articles, dissertations), is still unsolved. In my presentation, I will offer a new theory, which for the first time names a possible suspect other than Kammerer and a surprising motive for the manipulation. Thereby, I will also shed new light on the intense politicisation of science and especially biology already in the 1920ies.<\/p>\n CINE i CI\u00c8NCIA<\/em><\/p>\n Salamandra: a rare science movie<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Kammerer\u2019s story and his tragic fate became the subject of the movie \u201cSalamandra\u201d, a German-soviet co-production, which was shot 1928 in Germany. The Soviet secretary of culture himself, Anatoli Lunatscharskij, wrote the script, his wife played the part of Mrs. Kammerer. The highly controversial silent movie was forbidden in Weimar Republic for political reasons and only shown in Russia. Therefore most of the existing summaries are completely distorted. If you wish to see this rare movie, I\u2019d be happy to provide a copy with translated Russian inserts and a short introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El 30 de setembre, Klaus Taschwer, periodista del diari austriac “Der Standard” impartir\u00e0 la confer\u00e8ncia “The Toad Kisser and the Bear Cave. Revisiting the Case of Paul Kammerer” a la Resid\u00e8ncia d’Investigadors del CSIC (10:00-11:30). La confer\u00e8ncia anir\u00e0 seguida de la presentaci\u00f3 exclusiva de la pel\u00b7l\u00edcula Salamandra (12:00-13:00), sent la primera sessi\u00f3 d’un cicle de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}