| The International Laboratory for the History
of Science Participating Institutions
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| Center
for the History of Science, University of Athens Kostas Gavroglu |
The
Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas,
Tel Aviv University Rivka Feldhay Sabetai Unguru |
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Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT Cambrige, Ma Jed Buchwald Evelyn Simha |
Istituto
e Museo di Storia della Scienza Florence Paolo Galluzzi |
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Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science |
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| The International
Laboratory for the History of Science brings together junior and
senior scholars for seven to ten days each year to confront a focused
and novel research topic through hands-on contact with instruments,
techniques as well as the study of texts. Approximately a dozen postdoctoral
fellows meet with five or six senior scholars, experts in the topic
to be dealt with in the particular year, for an intensive seminar under
the sponsorship of one of the five participating institutions. The unity
of the International Laboratory is one of approach rather than of theme:
a workbench-like emphasis on the concrete sources of past scientific
experience, whether embedded in objects, mediated by techniques, or
displayed in words and images. The goals of the International Laboratory for the History of Science are: (1) to expand the preparation of younger scholars in the history of science and related fields by exposure to sources and methods not ordinarily included in graduate training; (2) to introduce techniques and perspectives from other disciplines (e.g. archaeology, cognitive science, art history) as they intersect with problems in the history of science; (3) to promote interactions of junior and senior scholars around a focused topic across national boundaries; and (4) to stimulate research on new areas in the history of science by concentrating scholarly attention on them by means of the seminars. The past topics and sites were as follows: The topic and
site for 2001is as follows: The topic and site for 2002 will be as follows: GREECE: Center for the History of Science,
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