Workshop on 18 and 19 September in the Glanzstoffhaus (6th floor, Kasinostrasse 19-21). Lectures and interactive sessions with participants from all over Germany.

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
EPISTEMIC AUTHORITY(S)
Who, how, what?
Glanzstoffhaus, Kasinostr. 19-21, 6th floor

INTRODUCTION
10:00-10:45: Tim Lork and Sabrina Engert (Wuppertal): Welcome, introduction, introduction
11:00-12:00: Tim Lork (Wuppertal): Concepts of epistemic authority
INSZENIERUNGEN EPISTEMISCHER AUTORITÄT
12:00-13:00: Prof. Dr Volker Remmert (Wuppertal): Visual construction of authority in the
early modern mathematical sciences
13:45-14:45: Miriam Göldl (Bochum): Showing knowledge, claiming validity: Die
Inszenierung epistemischer Autorität am Fallbeispiel der Straßburger Münsterwerkmeister
um 1500
15:00-16:00: Christina Sigrid Schlaich (Freiburg i.B.): Zuschreiben und selbstvermarkten:
Wissensgeschichtliche Überlegungen zum Aufstieg John Boyd-Orrs als "der
Ernährungsexperte", 1936-1943
16:15-17:30: Vertiefung Fallbeispiele (Interaktive Session)
Abend: gemeinsames Abendessen
HERAUSFORDERUNGEN EPISTEMISCHER AUTORITÄT
09:30-10:30: Prof. Dr Anna Leuschner (Wuppertal): Hostility to science and its
consequences: the problem of epistemic intimidation
10:45-11:45: Dr Alik Mazukatow (Lübeck): From epistemic authority to the
handling of ambiguous gender bodies
11:45-12:45: Colleen Seidel (Wuppertal): Forgotten, underestimated, rediscovered: Lise
Meitner in West German textbooks between 1960 and 2020
13:30-14:30: Jonas Pierchalla (Solingen): From Epistemic Authority to (Epistemic)
Violence - The Case of Giordano Bruno
14:30-15:45: In-depth Case Studies (Interactive Session)
16:00-17:00: Final Discussion
Organised by Tim Lork and Sabrina Engert
Registrations by 10.09. to: epiauthorities@uni-wuppertal.de
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