Akademisymposiet i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap

Perspectives on the History of Science
Hensikten med symposiet var å bringe fram perspektiver på nyere vitenskapshistorie, slik den drives i Norge og internasjonalt. Vitenskap ("science") omfatter såvel naturvitenskap og matematikk som humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap, medregnet juss og teologi.

Symposiet omfattet også en bokutstilling av nyere norske arbeider innen vitenskapshistorie.

PROGRAM
Monday 21 October

Session 1: Statistics, classification and society
Chair: Jan Eivind Myhre
Theodore Porter, UCLA: History of Statistics and the History of Science
Hege Roll-Hansen, UiO: Investigating Principles of Categorization in the Norwegian census1865-1930: The Production of a Working Population
Ann Rudinow Sætnan, NUST: Making [it] count

Session 2: Science and the Management of Natural Resources
Chair: Anne Kristine Børresen
D. Graham Burnett, Princeton U.: Whales, Whaling, and Whale Science in the Twentieth Century
Vera Schwach, NIFU: With the face turned to the ocean: science and fisheries management in Norway, 1860-2010

Tuseday 22 October

Session 3: Science on stage
Chair: Vidar Enebakk
Robert Marc Friedman, UiO: Balancing Acts: Drama about Science based on History
Kjetil Bang-Hansen: Comment

Session 4: Disciplinary perspectives
Chair: Geir Hestmark
History of Medicine: Christoph Gradman, UiO
History of Theology: Trond Skard Dokka, UiO
History of Law: Dag Michaelsen, UiO
History of History: Jan Eivind Myhre, UiO

Session 5: Concluding session: History of Science: Why and wherefore?
D. Graham Burnett, Princeton U: The History of Science and the Changing Nature of Humanistic Inquiry

Round table discussion with  Anne Kristine Børresen, NUST, Geir Hestmark, UiO, John Peter Collett, UiO, Vidar Enebakk, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.