History of Science
“When and where was such and such other thing discovered? By whom?” The answers to this kind of questions, while possibly interesting, add little to the understanding of science. They are chronologies, not history.
DIPC, together with the group Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) of the University of the Basque Country (EHU), organizes a monthly colloquium with professional historians of science aimed at broadening the formative activities of scientific researchers as well as reaching out to the general public on matters related to the history of science.
These seminars will help better understand the multifarious ways in which specific scientific theories, disciplines or institutions have come into being, evolved or even disappeared. They will also address the interactions between science and other cultural activities and explore past and present societal roles of specific sciences or science at large.
The semianr will be held in Spanish in the DIPC auditorium.
Note: The image corresponds to the caricature of Darwin's theory in the Punch almanac for 1882, published at the end of 1881 when Charles Darwin had recently published his last book, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms".
Organized seminars:
Aitor Anduaga (EHU, Ikerbasque)
"Jesuitas y ciencia: su aportación a la predicción ciclónica" - 23/04/2026
Jaume Navarro (EHU, Ikerbasque)
"Einstein, Relatividad y … ¿Antisemitismo?" - 04/05/2026
José Luis Granados (EHU)
"La época que no fue: por qué los geólogos rechazaron formalizar el Antropoceno (y qué nos enseña sobre los valores de la ciencia)" - 11/06/2026
The Jesuits and Science: Their Contribution to Cyclone Prediction
Aitor Anduaga Egaña
17:00 | Josebe Olarra Auditorium, DIPC, Donostia / San Sebastián
Einstein, Relativity and … Anti-Semitism?
Jaume Navarro
17:00 | Josebe Olarra Auditorium, DIPC, Donostia / San Sebastián
The epoch that never was: why geologists refused to formally recognise the Anthropocene (and what this tells us about the values of science)
José Luis Granados
17:00 | Josebe Olarra Auditorium, DIPC, Donostia / San Sebastián
Activities
All activities +- Passion for Knowledge
- Cinema and Science Series
- Art and Science
- STROM - Inclusive Astronomy
- The San Sebastian Festival with science
- Encounters top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean!
- Emakumeak Zientzian
- School visits
- On Zientzia
- Kutxa Fundazioa and DIPC
- History of Science
- Crystallization of dance
- Ciencia Jot Down
- Donostia, Zientzia Hiria
- New Paths of Science
- Pride in Science
- Mestizajes
- Zientzia astea
- El Palo de Eratóstenes
- Aranzadi Astronomy Seminars
- Inspira Bizitzak
- Donostia Week-INN
- Mapping Ignorance
- IKUR Quantum Talks
- Collaborations
- Special events
- Science and Chess
- Kimikoteka
- Bertsozientzia
- Naukas Donostia
- nanoKOMIK
- Albert Einstein
- STEAM Sare: Gravitating Bodies