Article ID: CBB210408111

Baltic Conferences on History of Science: Documenting the History of Science of the Baltic Countries in 1958–2019 (2022)

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The first attempt to bring together the historians of science from the Baltic States took place in Riga in 1958. Prof. Pauls Stradiņš (1896–1958) initiated and organised a joint meeting for historians of science from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania under the supervision of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A program for future joint activities was developed, and the tradition of joint conferences—the Baltic Conference on History of Science (BCHS)—in each country followed. In 1991, the Baltic Association of the History and Philosophy of Science (BAHPS), uniting historians and philosophers of science of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, took over organising the BCHS. The article aims to present an overview of the published results of the conference, which is partly based on the annotated bibliography (1958–1985) of the conference. The authors analyse the subject, dissemination and tradition of the BCHS, and discuss the role of academic institutions in organising the events. Since the overview was inspired by a decision to gather a complete set of books of conference abstracts, it also resulted in recommendations for conference organisers. Between 1958 and 2019, twenty-nine conferences were organised and 2,880 papers were presented. The next conference will take place in Finland in 2022. The main ideas of the article were presented at the 26th International Congress on History and Philosophy of Science in Prague in 2021.

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Authors & Contributors
Dagg, Joachim
Qidwai, Sarah
Pudłocki, Tomasz
Tarantini, Massimo
Naramore, Sarah E.
Pickman, Sarah M.
Concepts
History of science, as a discipline
Historians of science, modern
Historiography
Congresses, conferences, and meetings
Historical method
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
19th century
Places
France
China
Cracow (Poland)
Germany
Belgium
Mexico
Institutions
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Twitter (firm)
Science History Institute (SHI)
British Society for the History of Science
Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
History of Science Society
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