In the period 01-03-2004–28-02-2006 I hold a grant
from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities to do the research project:
2004:
April 13-23: Archival and
library studies in
June 2-6: 4th
Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) Meeting, “Traditions and Realities of
National Historiographies of Science, the Sandbjerg Estate,
June 23-29:
Interview/conversation with Roberto Salmeron in
August 29 – September 4: 9th
International Summer School in History of Science. Theme: ”Current approaches to the history of science”.
October 6: Lecture “Klassisk eksternalisme og
klassisk og nyere videnskabssociologi” in Claus Emmeche’s philosophy of science course at the Niels Bohr Institute.
October 12: Conversation
with Jens Bang about Léon Rosenfeld, the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen.
November 4 – 6: First conference in the
European Society for the History of Science: Science in Europe — Europe in Science: 1500 – 2000,
November 14 – 21: Meeting Olival Freire
Jr., Robert S. Cohen, John Stachel, and Abner Shimony in
2005:
January 10: Interview with
Jørgen Kalckar, the Niels Bohr Archive,
March 31: Seminar at the
Steno Institute, Aarhus Universitet, paper presented see below.
May 27: Symposium “Einstein and
June 14: Seminar at the Centre
National de
July 24-31: XXII
International Congress of History of Science,
November 18: International
Conference on Shifting Approaches in the Historiography of Exact Sciences in
Honour of Jens Høyrup, Carlsberg Akademiet, paper presented see below.
December 6: seminar at Institut for Kemi, Miljø og Bioteknologi, Ålborg Universitet, paper presented see below.
2006:
February 9: seminar at
IMFUFA, RUC.
March 30:
Interview/conversation with John Archibald Wheeler,
March 31-April1: workshop: Science at the Crossroads:
Geopolitics, Marxism, and Seventy-Five Years of Science Studies,
April 4: ``The relationship
between Marxist philosophy of history, philosophy of science, and
historiography of science in the work of Léon Rosenfeld´´, Conference: Philosophy and
Historiography,
2004:
March 18: ”Komplementaritet og
marxisme: Epistemologi, historiografi og ideologi i det 20. århundredes fysik
belyst ved Léon Rosenfeld,” IMFUFA: Department of Mathematics and Physics,
Roskilde University
November
4 – 6: ”Marxism
and the epistemology of quantum physics elucidated through the case of Léon
Rosenfeld” at the
first conference in the European Society for the History of Science: Science
in Europe — Europe in Science: 1500 –
November
20: ”The Role of Marxist Ideology in Léon Rosenfeld’s Defence of Complementarity in the 1950s,”
in the session ”Postwar Science and Politics” at the History of Science Society’s 2004
meeting in Austin, Texas, USA.
2005:
March 31: “Léon Rosenfeld, dialektisk materialisme og
kvantemekanikkens fortolkning,” Kollokvium ved Steno-instituttet, Aarhus
Universitet.
May 27: ”Léon Rosenfeld og Københavnerfortolkningens skæbne efter Bohr-Einstein-diskussionerne,” Symposium om ”Einstein og Danmark”, Videnskabernes Selskab, arrangeret af Nationalkomiteen sammen med Videnskabshistorisk Selskab og støttes af DVH-projektet.
June
14: ”Quantum
epistemology, history of science, and Marxism: the case of Léon Rosenfeld,” at
the Centre National de
July
24-30: “Dialectical development of physics: Léon Rosenfeld’s historiographical approach,” XXII International Congress of History of
Science,
November 18: “Ørsted and exact science”, at the International Conference on Shifting Approaches in the
Historiography of Exact Sciences in Honour of Jens Høyrup, Carlsberg Akademiet.
December 6: “Videnskab og romantik”, at the Institut for Kemi, Miljø og Bioteknologi, Ålborg Universitet
2006:
February 9: ``Léon
Rosenfeld, marxisme og komplementaritet´´, seminar at IMFUFA, RUC
April 4: ``The relationship
between Marxist philosophy of history, philosophy of science, and
historiography of science in the work of Léon Rosenfeld´´, Conference: Philosophy and
Historiography,