hps.cesee global book talk: Mitchell Ash, Dorothee Brantz, Oliver Hochadel: Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918. May 31, 17:00 CET / 18:00 MSK / 11 a.m. EST

 

The virtual platform HPS.CESEE (History of Science in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe) is proud to present its forthcoming book talk. Dorothee Brantz (Berlin) and Oliver Hochadel (Barcelona) will join Mitchell Ash (Vienna) to comment on the recent book, Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918 (Routledge  2021), in a discussion moderated by Jan Surman (Prague).

"Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918  presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history museums, large technical projects including the Ringstrasse and water pipelines from the Alps, urban geology, geography, public reports on polar exploration, exchanges of ethnographic objects, popular scientific societies and scientifically oriented adult education. The infrastructures and knowledge spaces described here were preconditions for the explosion of creativity known as 'Vienna 1900.'"

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the link, please register here:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hpscesee-book-talk-science-in-the-metropolis-vienna-1848-1918-tickets-154413136849 or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com. 

Mitchell G. Ash is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Dorothee Brantz is Professor and Director at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin. Her most recent book publication is: Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, Temporalities. Co-edited with Avi Sharma (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020) open access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5018-1/urban-resilience-in-a-global-context/

Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and a tenured researcher at the Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (CSIC, Barcelona).