Organization

1.       International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science (IUHPS/DHS)

Executive Council

President: Ekmeleddin IHSANOGLU (Turkey)

1^st Vice-President: Vladimir KIRSANOV (Russia)

2^nd Vice-President: Dun LIU (China)

Secretary General: Juan Jos¨¦ SALDAŇA (Mexico)

Assistant Secretary: Fabio BEVILACQUA (Italy)

Treasurer: Efthymios NICOLIADIS (Greece)

Assessors

K. ANDERSEN (Denmark); M. BAGHERI (Iran) ; R. DUDA (Poland); Carlos GALLES (Argentina); M. HAFEZ (Egypt); C. SASAKI (Japan); B.V. SUBBARAYAPPA (India)

Former Presidents

William SHEA (Canada); Robert FOX (UK); B.V. SUBBARAYAPPA (India)

2.       Congress Advisors

Yongxiang LU

Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People¡¯s Congress of the PRC

President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Former Co-President of the Chinese Society for History of Science and Technology

Jun KE

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Former President of the Chinese Society for History of Science and Technology

Zezong XI

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Former Co-President of the Chinese Society for History of Science and Technology

3.       Main Sponsors

Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC

Chinese Academy of Sciences£¨CAS£©

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Chinese Association of Science and Technology

4.       International Program Committee

President

Eberhard KNOBLOCH (Germany)

Members

Atilla BIR (Turkey); Michel BLAY£¨France; Lesley CORMACK (Canada); Christopher CULLEN (UK); Lorraine DASTON£¨Germany; Joseph DAUBEN£¨USA£©; Claude DEBRU (France); Sivia FIGUEIROA (Brazil); James R. FLEMING (USA); Peter GALISON£¨USA£©; Paulus GERDES£¨Mozambique£©; Enrico. GIUSTI (Italy) ; Gerald HOLTON£¨USA£©; Alexander KELLER£¨UK£©; Yung Sik KIM£¨Korea£©; Helge KRAGH£¨Denmark£©; Christoph MEINEL£¨Germany£©; Alexei POSTNIKOV (Russia); Roshdi RASHED£¨France£©; George SALIBA£¨USA£©; Julio SAMSÓ£¨Spain£©; Fumihiko SATOFUKA£¨Japan£©; Wesley SHRUM£¨USA£©; Ida STAMHUIS£¨The Netherlands£©; A.N. THAKUR (India); Éva VÁMOS£¨Hungary£©; Yangzong WANG£¨China£©; Michio YANO£¨Japan£©; Tadashi YOSHIDA (Japan)

5.       Local Organizing Committee

President

Dun LIU (Institute for History of Natural Science, Beijing)

Members

Zaiqing FANG£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Jianping HAN£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Qi HAN£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Xiaoyuan JIANG£¨Jiaotong University, Shanghai£©

Cuiling LAN£¨Center for International Scientific Exchanges, Beijing£©

Daguang LI£¨Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing£©

Genqun LI£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Yuqun LIAO£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Bing LIU£¨Tsinghua University, Beijing£©

Dalong LU£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Lin LUO£¨Center for Scientific Literature and Information, Beijing£©

Rongping MU£¨Institute of Policy and Management, Beijing£©

Anjing QU£¨Northwest University, Xi¡¯an£©

Rongyu SU£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Xiaochun SUN£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Miao TIAN£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Yusheng WANG£¨Science and Technology Museum, Beijing£©

Guosheng WU£¨Peking University, Beijing£©

Jian YANG£¨Tsinghua University, Beijing£©

Baichun ZHANG£¨Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing£©

Daqing ZHANG£¨Peking University, Beijing£©

Jin ZHU (Beijing Planetarium, Beijing£©

6.       Organizers

Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology

Institute for the History of Natural Science

7.       Main Supporting Organizations

Beijing Planetarium

Center for Scientific Literature and Information

China Science and Technology Museum

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany)

Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (UK)

Palace Museum

Tsinghua University

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8.       Congress Secretariat

Preliminary Program

1.       Theme

The general theme is ¡°Globalization and Diversity¡±. Discussions will focus on the diffusion of science and technology between different cultures in the past, and its impact on the world today, as well as its prospects for the future advance of human civilization.

Scientific sections and symposia on other topics will also have their place.

2.       Plenary Lectures

S. M. Razaullah Ansari (India): Transmission of Islamic Exact Science to India and its

Neighbours and Repercussions Thereof

Christopher Cullen (UK): Shifting Tectonic Plates in the History of Science: Some

Reflections on the Work of Joseph Needham

Peter Galison (USA): Einstein and Poincar¨¦: A Trace of Ink that Tore Space and Time

Khalid Salim Ismael (Iraq): The Development of Number System in Mathematics in

Ancient Iraq

Evelyn Fox Keller (USA): Does the Globalization of Scientific Lexicons Have its Costs?

Eberhard Knobloch (Germany, IPC, IAHS): Mathesis Perennis ¨C Mathematics in Ancient,

Renaissance, and Modern Times

Xiaochun Sun (China): Moral and Political Significances of Nature in Ancient China

Chen Ning Yang (USA/China, Nobel laureate): Modern Physics since Albert Einstein

 (Provisional)

3£®Scientific Sections

The list of sections below is for information only. They will be subdivided when the Secretariat receives a sufficient number of papers. LOC recommends that all participants submitting papers send their abstracts before 15 March 2005 (Please identify the preferred category of your abstract based on the following classification.)

1.        Paleosciences and Ethnosciences

2.        Classical and Oriental Antiquity

3.        Islamic Civilization

4.        South Asia and India

5.        The Far East and China

6.        Other Non-Western Civilizations

7.        The Middle Ages (Western and Byzantine) and Renaissance

8.        Science, Technology and Medicine in the Classical Period (1543-1800)

8.1     Mathematics and Mechanics

8.2     Physics and Astronomy

8.3     Earth Sciences

8.4     Chemistry and Pharmacy

8.5     Biological and Medical Sciences

8.6     Technology and Engineering

8.7     Geography and Cartography

8.8     Sciences of Man and Society

9.        Science, Technology and Medicine in the Contemporary Period

9.1     Mathematics

9.2     Physics and Astronomy

9.3     Earth Sciences

9.4     Chemistry

9.5     Biological Sciences

9.6     Medical Sciences

9.7     Technology

9.8     Engineering

9.9     Space Exploration and Research

9.10  Computing Sciences and the Internet

9.11  Geography

9.12  Social Sciences

10.     International Scientific Exchanges

11.     Scientific and Technical Museologie-instruments

12.     The Formation of Scientific Languages

13.     The Evolution of Teaching and Popularization

14.     Art and Science

15.     Scientific Institutions ¨C Learned Societies

16.     Science and Society

17.     Science and Culture

18.     Science and Philosophy

19.     Science and Military Affairs

20.     Science and Ecology

21.     Trans-cultural Diffusion of Science

22.     Technological Transfer

23.     Women in Science and Technology

4£®Symposia

The following 62 symposia have been evaluated and approved by the International Program Committee. Listed here are symposium titles and names of their organizers (in accordance with the alphabetic order of DHS Commissions/Sections and contents of the symposia). The names and program details of all symposium members will be available in the Third Circular. As suggested by the IPC and adopted by the LOC, scholars involved in organizing two or more symposia can be accepted as co-organizer for only one symposium, but may appear in other symposia as commentator, adviser or speaker (provided that he or she gives no lecture in the symposium he or she co-organizes). LOC recommends that all organizers communicate with fellow members so as to determine their membership composition, topics and the order by which lectures are delivered. The final program list should be made available to the Congress Secretariat before 15 December 2004, after which date modifications are no longer accepted. LOC also urges all symposium organizers to inform their members of the need to register individually with the Congress and submit their abstracts before 15 March 2005. The serial numbers of their abstracts should correspond with the following classification.

4.1 Organized by DHS Commissions and Sections

Joint Commision of the DHS and DLMPS

SC1. History and Philosophy of Modern Cosmology
Helge Kragh (Denmark), Erwin Neuenschwander(Switzerland)

Bibliography & Documents (Chairperson Peter Harper)

   SC2. History of Science Online: new possibilities and new challenges

Juan Jos¨¦ Saldaña (Mexico), Peter Harper (U.K.)

CHAMA-Ancient and Medieval Astronomy (Chairperson S. M. Razaullah Ansari)

SC3. Astronomy in the Oriental, Antique and Medieval World

Razaullah Ansari (India), Raymond Mercier (UK), Anne Tihon (Belgium)

East Asia (Chairperson Dun Liu)

SC4. Science under Louis XIV and under Kangxi: a comparative approach to state policies and exchanges

Catherine Jami (France), Qi Han (China)

SC5. The History of Technology - China and the West

Welf Schnell (Germany), Rongyu Su (China)

SC6. Cultural Manifolds in the History of Chinese Science, Technology, and Medicine

Nathan Sivin (USA), Xiaochun Sun (China)

Islamic Civilization (Chairperson G¨¹l Russell)

SC7. Science in Islam and Its Interactions with other Scientific Traditions

Merc¨¦ Comes (Spain), G. A. Russell (USA), Jamil Ragep (USA), Camil Aydin (Turkey)

ICOHTEC-Technology (Chairperson Alexandre Herlea)

SC8. Chinese and Western Everyday Technologies in Transition: approaches to a cultural interpretation of artefacts

Mareile Flitsch (Germany), Wolfgang König (Germany), Lisheng Feng (China)

SC9. Computer Networks, the Internet and the Netizens: their impact on science and society

Frank Dittmann (Germany), Ronda Hauben (USA)

SC10. Technology Transfer and Culture in a Globalizing World

Alexandre Herlea (France), Wolfhard Weber (Germany)

SC11. Technological Landscapes and Environmental Pollution

James C. Williams (USA), Anthony N. Stranges (USA), Timo Myllyntaus (Finland)

Mathematics (Chairperson Karen Parshall)

SC12. Ten Classics of Ancient Chinese Mathematics

Joseph W. Dauben (USA), Shuchun Guo (China), Alexej Volkov (Russia/Canada)

SC13. Along the Silk Road-- mathematical and astronomical exchanges between East and West in ancient and medieval times

Wenlin Li (China), Anjing Qu (China), Benno van Dalen (The Netherlands/Germany)

SC14. Multicultural Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge

Chikara Sasaki (Japan), Roshdi Rashed (France)

Meteorology (Chairperson James R. Fleming)

SC15. Diversity in the Global Reconstruction and Representation of Weather and Climate: East, South, West, North

James R. Fleming (USA), Cornelia L¨¹decke (Germany), Rudolph Br¨¢zdil (Czech),

Togo Tsukahara (Japan)

Modern Chemistry (Chairperson Christoph Meinel)

SC16. Globalization and Diversity: modern chemistry and chemical technology

Christoph Meinel (Germany), Yasu Furukawa (Japan)

    Ernst Homburg (Netherlands), Li Zhang (China), Nasir Tyabji (India)

Modern Physics (Chairpersons Helge Kragh & Roger Stuewer)

SC17. Einstein in Context Prespectives on Einstein as Scientific Icon, Public Figure and Political Man

Juergen Renn (Germany), Gerhard Heinzmann (France)

Sciences and Empires/Pacific Circle (Chairpersons Silvia Figueiroa & Alison Kay)

SC18. Scientific Image and Colonial Higher Education

Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa (Brazil), Michael Osborne (USA)

Teaching (Chairperson Jaroslav Folta)

SC19. History of Science and Technology in Textbooks of General History on Fundamental and Secondary Schools Level

Jaroslav Folta (Czech), Horst Remane (Germany), Kostas Nikolantonakis (Greece£©

Women in Science (Chairperson Ida Stamhuis)

SC20. Women Scientists in the Creation of New Disciplines

Ida H. Stamhuis (Netherlands), Annette B. Vogt (Germany), Margaret W. Rossiter (USA)

4.2 Organized by Other Groups

S1. In Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Creation of the Theory of Relativity (Tsinghua Forum)

Bing Liu (China), Jian Yang (China), Diana Buchwald (USA), Danian Hu (USA)

S2. Science and Intellectual Property in International Perspective

Dan Kevles (USA), Jean-Paul Gaudilliere (France)

S3. The History of International Scientific Collaboration

Lorraine Daston (Germany), Peter Galison (USA)

S4. History of Science and its Uses in Science Education

Arthur Stinner (Canada), J¨¹rgen Teichmann (Germany)

S5. The Dialogue of Science and Religion: Past and Present

Bidare V. Subbarayappa (India), Jean Staune (France)

S6. Speciation in Science. Historical-philosophical Studies on the Emergence and Consolidation of Scientific Disciplines

Maria Sol de Mora (Spain), Karen V. H. Parshall (USA)

S7. The Permutation of Science 2005-2050

Tianyu Cao (China/USA), Paul Forman (USA)

S8. Les Sources des D¨¦bats Epist¨¦mologiques Contemporaine sur la Notion de Fonction dans les Sciences Biologiques et Humaines

Gutavo Caponi (Brazil), Philippe Huneman (France)

S9. Big Picture: West and East?

John V. Pickstone (UK), Francesca Bray (USA), David Edgerton (UK)

S10. War and Science

Fumihiko Satofuka (Japan), Naoki Yamaguchi (Japan), Liang Bo (China)

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S11. Politically Engaged Scientists, 1920-1950: Science, Politics, Philosophy, History

Gregory Blue (Canada), Christopher Chilvers (UK), Anna K. Mayer (USA),

Patrick Petitjean (France)

S12. Globalization, Electronic Media and Culture

Kamlesh Mohan (India), S.T. Hettige (Sri Lanka)

S13. A Critical History of European Orientalism: Edward Said (1978) Revisited

Fermin del Pino-Diaz (Spain), Limei Liu (China)

S14. On Colonial Science

Shigeru Nakayama (Japan), Jianping Han (China)

S15. Ethnoscience and Ethnomathematics

Ubiratan d¡¯Ambrosio (Brazil), Paulus Gerdes (Africa)

S16. Comparative Analysis of Science and Technology in China and Russia during 19-20 Centuries

Mutian Sun (China), A. V. Soldatov (Russia)

S17. Scientific Knowledge, Education and Cultural Diversity in the Baltic Sea Region: North-West-East Contacts

Juozas Al. Krikstopaitis (Lithuania), Romualdas Sviedrys (USA)

S18. Cultures of Hygiene in Modern Latin America

Diego Armus (USA), Gilberto Hochman (Brazil)

S19. Globalization of Science: internet collaboration in developing areas

Wesley Shrum (USA), Radhamany Sooryamoorthy (South Africa)

S20. Comparative History of Science: science, medicine, and technology under National Socialism in comparative context

Susanne Heim (Germany), Carola Sachse (Austria), Mark Walker (USA)

S21. The Associations of Scientists in Europe: from the republic of letters to the national scientific societies (XVIIth-XIXth centuries)

S.S. Demidov (Russia), D. Gouzevitch (France), Ch. Phili (Greece)

S22. Diffusions of Science and Technology: Ottoman Empire and national states

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Turkey), E. Nicolaidis (Greece), M. Kacar (Turkey)

S23. Sharing the Celestial Sphere

Rajesh Kochhar (India), Alex Gurshtein (Russia/USA)

S24. Forms and Development: models, concepts and experiments in developmental biology, from 19th cent. to 20th cent. with a tentative view on other scientific traditions

Scott F. Gilbert (USA), Charles Galperin (France)

S25. G. W. Leibniz: science, politics and universal benevolence

Hartmut Rudolph (Germany), Wenchao Li (China)

S26. Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Lesley Cormack (Canada), Steven Pumfrey (UK)

S27. Thomas Harriot: an Elizabethan man of science in European context

Stephen Clucas (UK), Matthias Schemmel (Germany)

S28. Diffusion and Exchanges of Medical Knowledge between Orient and Occident

Yeo In-Sok (Korea), Armelle Debru (France)

S29. Aspects of Twentieth Century Neuroscience

Claude Debru (France), Jean-Noël Missa (Belgium)

S30. Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda outside Their Home Religions: a comparison

Gunnar Stollberg (Germany), Elisabeth Hsu (UK)

S31. Japanese Human Experimentation in Wartime China: inquiries into its historical, political, cultural and ethical issues

Jing-Bao Nie (New Zealand/China), Sang-yong Song (Korea)

S32. International Networks, Exchange and Circulation of Knowledge in Life Sciences, 18th to 20th Centuries

Brigitte Hoppe (Germany), Sona Strbanova (Czech), Nicolas Robin (France)

S33. Commentaries and Other Deuteronomic Sources from Ancient China, Greece, India and the Latin World

Karine Chemla (France), Agathe Keller (France), Reviel Netz (USA)

S34. The Foundation of "Scientific" Psychology within the Cultural, Social, and Institutional Contexts of European and Extra-European Countries between the 19th and 20th Centuries

Guido Cimino (Italy), R¨¦gine Plas (France)

S35. The Beginning of Mathematical Astronomy

Michio Yano (Japan), Tadashi Yoshida (Japan), Christopher Cullen (UK)

S36. History of Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Related Sciences

Krishna R. Dronamraju (USA), Michel Morange (France)

S37. Electronics in the 20th Century

Vasily Borisov (Russia), Alexander Magoun (USA)

S38. La m¨¦trologie historique, ¨¦tat de la question et voies nouvelles de recherches

Eiju Matsumoto (Japan), Masatsugu Nishida (Japan), Bernard Garnier (France)  

S39. The Diffusion of Agricultural Science and Technology. and Its Impact on the Economic and Social Development in the World

Siming Wang (China ), Haoche Li (Korea), Doulas Hurt£¨USA£©

S40. Biology in Divided World: 20^th Century+

Keith Benson (USA), Edward Kolchinsky (Russia), Segio Martinez (Mexico)

S41. Technology Transfer and European Expansion in East Asia

Tadaaki Kimoto (Japan), Rongping Mu (China), Chengzhi Li (China)

SC42. Mechanics in Chinese and Western Traditions: theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge and languages

Baichun Zhang (China), Hans Ulrich Vogel (Germany)

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5£®Poster

Poster space will be available to provide a field of exchange for those unable to attend the congress. Scholars interested in submitting papers are invited to send their work to the Congress  Secretariat electronically or by post, so that arrangement can be made for them to be posted. Congress participants can freely post their papers and/or other research findings as well. For special requests, such as large poster space, please contact the Secretariat in advance.

6£®Business Meetings

   LOC requests that officials from all DHS Commissions an