Bigg, Charlotte (Author)
Reinisch, Jessica (Author)
Somsen, Geert (Author)
Widmalm, Sven (Author)
British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 56
Issue: 4
Pages: 423-433
Hundreds of thousands of conferences have taken place since their first appearance in the late eighteenth century, yet the history of science has often treated them as stages for scientific practice, not as the play itself. Drawing on recent work in the history of science and of international relations, the introduction to this special issue suggests avenues for exploring the phenomenon of the international scientific conference, broadly construed, by highlighting the connected dimensions of communication, sociability and international relations. It lays out a typology of scientific conferences as a way of gaining an overview of their diversity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that the international scientific conference is a central locus for understanding science as a social, cultural and political practice.
...MoreArticle Charlotte Bigg (2023) Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 567-577).
Article Jenny Beckman (2023) Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 553-566).
Article Sven Widmalm (2023) ‘Super Bowl of the world conference circuit’? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 535-551).
Article Georgiana Kotsou (2023) Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950–1980. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 519-534).
Article Waqar H. Zaidi (2023) The Pugwash scientists’ conferences, Cyrus Eaton and the clash of internationalisms, 1954–1961. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 503-517).
Article Jessica Reinisch (2023) Technical conferences as a technique of internationalism. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 485-502).
Article Laura C. Forster (2023) Sex, science and curated community at the World League for Sexual Reform 1929 conference. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 469-484).
Article Geert Somsen (2023) ‘The goddess that we serve’: projecting international community at the first serial chemistry conferences, 1893–1914. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 453-467).
Article Thomas Mougey (2023) Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878–1891. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 435-451).
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