Ether and Modernity. The Recalcitrance of an Agonising Object in Physics and in Culture.

Workshops

When

2017/03/30 - 2017/03/31

Place

Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain)

Organizers

Prof. Jaume Navarro, Donostia International Physics Center, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country and Catedra Sanchez Mazas

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CFP: Physicists, Historians of Science and Philosophers are invited to attend and submit short presentations to the workshop "Ether and Modernity", on the presence of the ether in twentieth-century science and culture.

This is the third of a series of meetings (Oxford 2014, San Francisco 2015, San Sebastian 2017) to discuss the way an epistemic object like the ether was rejected, modified or maintained in the firs half of the twentieth century, and the later attempts to resuscitate it in contemporary physics.

The workshop has a twofold practical purpose: the finalisation of a joint publication with the contributions of the invited speakers; and the dissemination of the results and the incorporation of new ideas into the project by other historians of science, physicists and philosophers.

Please send expressions of interest to jaume.navarro@ehu.es by November 15th 2016.


Invited Speakers:

Imogen Clarke (Independent Scholar)
Connemara Doran (Harvard University)
Linda D. Henderson (University of Texas)
Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Jaume Navarro (Ikerbasque and University of the Basque Country)
Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University)
Richard Staley (University of Cambridge)
Scott A. Walter (University of Nantes)
Michael Whitworth (University of Oxford)
Aaron Wright (Stanford University)

More information in http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/etherandmodernity