{"id":3767,"date":"2014-05-01T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T09:41:22","slug":"watson-seminar-barcelona-6-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/2014\/05\/01\/watson-seminar-barcelona-6-june-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Seminar, Barcelona 6 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
Third Watson Seminar in the History of Material and Visual Science<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHow to write an urban history of science: <\/strong>New approaches and case studies\u201d<\/strong> 6 June 2014 <\/p>\n Draft Program<\/strong><\/p>\n 6 June 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:15\u00a0 Welcome Address 11:10-11:40 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 11:40-12:30<\/strong> Maria Rentetzi and Spiros Flevaris (National Technical University of Athens): \u201cEnvisioning a New European Metropolis: The Athens Observatory, Greek astronomy, and the imposed path to modernization\u201d 13:30-15:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n 15:30-16:20<\/strong> Diego Armus (Swarthmore College): \u201cHygiene in a modern peripheral city. Buenos Aires, 1870-1930\u201d 17:10-17:40 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 17:40-18:30<\/strong> Ben Marsden (University of Aberdeen): \u201c\u2019Glasgow is our laboratory\u2019: metropolis, province and philosophical engineering c. 1840s \u2013 1900\u201d <\/p>\n
\nOrganized by Oliver Hochadel and Agust\u00ed Nieto-Galan<\/p>\n
\nBarcelona, Institut d\u2019Estudis Catalans (IEC)<\/p>\n
\n9:30-10:20<\/strong> Miriam Levin (Case Western Reserve University): \u201cThe Physiology of Science and the City\u201d
\n10:20-11:10<\/strong> Oliver Hochadel and Agust\u00ed Nieto-Galan (IMF-CSIC and Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona): \u201cBarcelona 1888-1929: The city of \u2018scientific marvels\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n12:30-13:20<\/strong> Ana Sim\u00f5es (Universidade de Lisboa): \u201cScience, Technology and Medicine in Lisbon as seen through the daily press (1900-1910)\u201d<\/p>\n
\n16:20-17:10<\/strong> Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin): “The Urban Discovery of Nature: Science, Education, and the Display of Animals, 1850-1930”<\/p>\n
\n18:30-19:00<\/strong> Mitchell Ash (Universit\u00e4t Wien) \u201cConcluding Remarks\u201d<\/p>\n