----------------------------------- Mircea Pteancu 29 Mai 2011 20:47 ----------------------------------- HEVELIUS 2011 An international conference to mark the quadricentennial of the birth of Johannes Hevelius 15-18 September 2011, Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZED BY Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences NOTIFICATION AND THE PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The conference Hevelius 2011 will be held from 15 to 18 of September, 2011 in Gdansk, Poland. This meeting will bring together historians, historians of art, historians of science, historians of technology, and researchers who work on different aspects of Hevelius' life and work. The aim of the conference is to encourage Hevelius scholarship and to show his achievements in the broader seventeenth-century European contexts. Some of keynote addresses will be given by Suzanne Débarbat and Laurence Bobis (Paris Observatory) on Hevelius' manuscripts in France, Kathrin Müller (Frankfurt University) on Hevelius' visual representations, Klaus-Dieter Herbst (Bremen University) on Hevelius and his correspondence with scholars in Leipzig and Jena, Felix Lühning (Archenhold Observatory, Berlin) on Hevelius' observatory and his giant telescopes, Voula Saridakis (Lake Forest College, USA) on the Hevelius-Hooke controversy, Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology, USA) on Hevelius' complex relationship with the Royal Society of London, Derek Jensen (Brigham Young University, Idaho, USA) on judgments of Hevelius, and Richard L. Kremer (Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA) on Gdansk table/calendar makers. Papers (in English) are cordially invited on the conference theme. Proposals (title and brief synopsis with author's affiliation and address, in a Word e-mail attachment) should be sent by 30 April 2011 to Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk (Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; jaroslawwlodarczyk@wp.pl). A decision on papers accepted for presentation will be made by 15 May 2011. Each accepted paper will be allotted a total of 30 minutes; it is expected that all papers will be delivered in approximately 20 minutes. Since the organizers intend to publish conference papers, participants will be asked to send the digital version of a paper within two months after the conference. For more information please contact Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk (jaroslawwlodarczyk@wp.pl)