[Sci-tech-public] CFP: Physical Sciences in the Third World

[David Kaiser]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Third "Milano Workshop"

The Physical Sciences in the Third World: A Social
History of Science and Development.

Bogotá, Colombia, June 11-13, 2005.

The Third "Milano Workshop" will be devoted to discussion of physical
sciences in the Third World, as a contribution to the celebration of the
100th anniversary of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis. The workshop will focus
on the establishment and development of the physical sciences in the 19th
and 20th centuries. The workshop will discuss problems concerned with
electromagnetism, thermodynamics, optics, physical chemistry, mathematical
physics, astronomy and, more generally, any field in which scientists
deployed methods, concepts and/or techniques related to physics and
astronomy. One of the aims is to open a common space of reflection and
discussion that will facilitate comparative studies of the reception and
re-creation of physical theories and practices in peripheral regions and
institutions.

For more information visit:
http://www.fisica.unal.edu.co/milano/index.html, or
http://www.brera.unimi.it/milan/start.html

Contacts:
Prof. Alexis De Greiff
meeting05_bog at unal.edu.co
Dr. Leonardo Gariboldi
leonardo.gariboldi at unimi.it

Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro

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David Kaiser		dikaiser at mit.edu
Associate Professor
Program in Science, Technology, & Society
and Lecturer, Department of Physics
Building E51-185
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: 617 452-3173	Fax: 617 258-8118