SCIENTIFIC PERSONAE IN CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
SPICE: Kick-off Meeting
Spice research team
Stockholm, 12 September 2014
Programme
13.00 - 13.15 Presentations and welcome Kirsti Niskanen, Professor, Department of History, Stockholm University Karin Bergmark,
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Stockholm University
13.15 - 14.00 Key note speech “Science, Gender, and Internationalism - Women’s Academic Networks, 1917-1955” Christine von
Oertzen, Associate Professor, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
14.15 - 15.00 Scientific Persona - A Conceptual Discussion ”Scientific persona and gender - a clash of concepts", Margareta Hallberg,
Professor in Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, “The scientific persona as a category of being and doing
epistemology”, Mineke Bosch, Professor of Modern History, University of Groningen.
15.00 Break
15.15-16.00 Scientific Personae - Applying the Concept “Scientific Persona as Performance. In search of a definition”, Pieter Huistra, Dr.,
and Kaat Wils, Professor in Cultural History since 1750, KU Leuven "To show or not to show: Expression and restraint in
theshaping of medical personae", Annika Berg, Dr., Department of History, Stockholm University
16.00 Drinks and farewell