The Circulation of Knowledge and Practices 

28 - 29 September 2007

Friday

09.00-10.00 registration
10.15-10.30 introduction

10.30-10.55 Daan Wegener, 'Circulating knowledge and local credibility: Helmholtz' mediation between German and British science'
10.55-11.20 Joost Vijselaar, 'Psyche and electricity'

11.20-11.40 coffee

11.40-12.05 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, 'Uses of mathematics in the Dutch Republic'
12.05-12.30 Danny Beckers, 'Teaching mathematics in the 19th and 20th century'
12.30-12.55 Ida Stamhuis, 'The introduction of sampling for surveys in the Dutch Statistical Bureau'

13.00-14.30 lunch

14.30-14.55 Janneke van der Heide, 'Over darwinisme en de autoriteit van wetenschap vanaf 1870'
14.55-15.20 Jaap Bos, 'Marginal figures and the circulation of knowledge: Evart van Dieren'
15.20-15.45 David Baneke, 'Scientists and the dilemmas of the intellectual'

15.45-16.00 tea

16.00-17.00 Keynote address
David Edgerton, 'Policy, History and the Nation. Reflections on Writing the History of Science and Technology'

18.00 no-host bar
19.00 dinner

Saturday

Special focus: putting circulation in global context

09.45-10.05 Lissa Roberts, 'Putting circulation in global context'
10.05-10.45 Andreas Weber, 'Mediators of knowledge: natural scientists in the Dutch East Indies in the early nineteenth century'

10.45-11.00 coffee

Special focus, continued
11.00-11.25 Toine Pieters and Henk Menke, 'The Dutch leprosy debate in the nineteenth century. Travelling knowledge between the mother country and its colonies'
11.25-11.50 Robert-Jan Wille, 'The impact of empire. Circulation of knowledge in the Dutch metropolis, 1871-1914'
11.50-12.15 Donna Mehos, 'Global germplasms in the South Pacific: sugar cane breeding in twentieth-century Hawaii'

12.15-13.45 lunch

13.45-14.10 Adrienne van den Boogaard, 'ICT at Philips and the circulation of knowledge'
14.10-14.35 Gerard Alberts, 'Software for Europe'
14.35-15.00 Huib Zuidervaart, 'Engines of knowledge in the Low Countries. A comparative study of the evolution of instruments for natural philosophy and their loci and use in popular and professional science c. 1675-1875'

15.00-15.15 tea

Institutional resources and opportunities
15.15-15.35 Dirk van Delft, 'Museum Boerhaave'
15.35-15.55 Marian Scharloo, 'Teylers Museum'
15.55-16.15 Henk Wals, 'The Digital History of Science Centre at the Huygens Institute'

16.15-17.00 final remarks

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