Wednesday, March 4, Van Swinderen Huys
09:30-10:00
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Arrival and coffee/tea
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10:00-10:10
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Welcome by Dirk Jan Wolffram
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10:10-10:30
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Hanneke Hoekstra: Max Weber and “Wissenschaft als Beruf”
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10:30-12:30
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Session I: Inner Vocations: Personal Dispositions towards Science/Scholarship
Chair: Hanneke Hoekstra
- Rienk Vermij: The Vocation of Isaac Beeckman
- Rina Knoeff: “Servitude is the Physician’s Glory”: Inner Vocation in Boerhaave’s Academic Testament
- Frans van Lunteren: Disenchanted Science: Dutch Professors’ Struggles with Natural Theology
- Ilja Nieuwland: Principle and Opportunism: The Career of Gottwald Hirsch and Biology at Utrecht, 1921-1945
- Wessel Krul: Between Literature and Science: Johan Huizinga’s Academic Ambivalences
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch break
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13:30-15:30
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Session II: Embodied Vocations: Institutions, Practices, Objects, and Genres
Chair: Catrien Santing - Mineke Bosch: “Hij ondervond veel medewerking van Mej. Bleeker”: The Cooperation Between Frits Zernike and Lili Bleeker Under the Contrast-Phase Microscope
- Eric Jorink: Visualizing the Mechanical Worldview in the Dutch Republic
- Djoeke van Netten: Magic Maps: Blaeu’s Disenchanting Cartography and Some Reenchantment
- Ernst Homburg: The Long Road to the Laboratory Revolution
- Dorien Daling: From the Book of Nature to Nature as Web: Ecologies of Scientific Genres
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15:30-16:00
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Coffee/tea
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16:00-17:00
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Keynote by Steven Shapin, introduced by Catrien Santing: The Vocation of Science: Its Past and Its Present Problems
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17:00
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Drinks
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Thursday, March 5, Senate Room, Academy Building
10:00-10:15 |
Coffee/tea |
10:15-12:00 |
Session III: Public Vocations: Meanings of Science/Scholarship in (Late) Modern Life and Culture
Chair: Dirk Jan Wolffram
- Pieter Caljé: The Symbolic Landscape:
Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the Landscape
- Ida Stamhuis: Disenchanting National Policy: The Efforts of 19th-Centure Statistics Professors
- Remieg Aerts: Relevance as Vocation: Science as Personal Education, Criticism and Valorization Since the 19th Century
- Bert Theunissen: Virtus and Scientific Integrity in the 21st Century
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch break |
13:00-14:20 |
Session III continues:
- David Baneke: Astronomy’s New Mission: How Astronomy is Going to Improve the World
- Trudy Dehue: Democratic Science and Deliberative Precision
- Frank Ankersmit: The Anthropocene, Spinozism and the Vocation of the Historian
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14:20-14:40 |
Closing remarks by Floris Cohen |
14:40-14:45 |
Klaas van Berkel |
16:00 |
Farewell lecture by Klaas van Berkel: Illusies (Illusions), Aula, Academy building
Reception afterwards |