STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

100 Years of the Max Planck Society: German Science, Culture and the Élite in the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Countries Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Carrer Ramón Trias Fargas 25/27, 08005 Barcelona Program
November 17-18, 2011November 17th, Thursday
16:00 - 16:30 Official Opening of the Workshop
16:30 - 17:15 Plenary address:
Jürgen Renn / Horst Kant (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)"A short history of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society"
17:15 - 18:00 Discussion
20:00 Official Reception Dinner
November 18th, Friday
09:00 - 13:30Mitchel Ash (University of Vienna)Resource Exchanges. The Kaiser-Wilhelm and Max-Planck Societies in times of political change – 1918, 1933, 1945, 1990
Lorenz Beck (Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin)The international relationsship of the KGW/MPG
Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)KWG / MPG and the relaions with East Europa
15:00 - 19:30
Wolfgang Schäffner (Humboldt University of Berlin)German Culture in Latin America
Albert Presas i Puig (UPF, Barcelona)Science and political strategy: German science in Spain in the 20th Century
Marició Janué (UPF, Barcelona)(On the cultural relationship between Germany and Spain)
Javier Ordóñez (UA Madrid)(On the role of German culture in the Spanish Élite)
Conclussions

Participants: Mitchel Ash (University of Vienna)
Lorenz Beck (Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin)
Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin)
Marició Janué (UPF, Barcelona)
Horst Kant (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Javier Ordoñez (UA Madrid)
Albert Presas i Puig (UPF)
Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Wolfgang Schäffner (Humboldt University of Berlin)