LINGUIST List 21.4523 Thu Nov 11 2010 Confs: Philosophy of Language, Translation/Austria Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Jan Surman , Language as a Scientific Tool: Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation Message 1: Language as a Scientific Tool: Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation Date: 10-Nov-2010 From: Jan Surman <jan.surmanunivie.ac.at> Subject: Language as a Scientific Tool: Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation E-mail this message to a friend Language as a Scientific Tool: Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation Date: 29-Nov-2010 - 30-Nov-2010 Location: Vienna, Austria Contact: Jan Surman Contact Email: jan.surmanunivie.ac.at Meeting URL: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikt/veranstaltungen_e.html Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Translation Meeting Description: Conference 'Language as a Scientific Tool. Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation' 29.11.2010-30.11.2010, Clubraum, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, Vienna Organisation: Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Working Group 'History of Science', History Department, University of Vienna; Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg; Department of English and German Philology, University of Granada, Vienna Concept and organisation: Johannes Feichtinger (Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences): johannes.feichtingeroeaw.ac.at Miles MacLeod (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna): miles.macleodkli.ac.at Ekaterina Smirnova (Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg): esmirnovaeu.spb.ru Rocío Sumillera (Department of English and German Studies, University of Granada): sumillecorreo.ugr.es Jan Surman (History Department, University of Vienna / Institute for History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): jan.surmanunivie.ac.at The conference revolves around the discussion of scientific language, understood both as a medium influencing scientific and scholarly production and as the product of the interaction between linguistics, philosophy and materiality. Furthermore, language becomes a consciously modeled tool aiming at achieving definite scientific and political goals without disregarding the need for scholarly communication between distinct communities. The analysis of processes of scientific translation - between languages, objects, disciplines or concepts - helps us to understand scholars' and scientists' use of the intersection between epistemological and performative functions of language and its modifications under different political circumstances. Monday 29th November 9:00-9:15 Registration 9:15-9:45 Welcome Address and Introductory Remarks Mitchell G. Ash, Michael Rössner 9:45-10:45 Keynote lecture Matthias Dörries: Modern science and the spirit of language and philology 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Session 1: Language and Science: General Reflections (Chair: Mitchell G. Ash) Falko Schmieder: Conceptual History of the Natural Sciences Jan Surman: Semiosphere. 'Spirit of Language' and Creation of Scientific Spaces 12:30-14:00 Lunch break 14:00-16:15 Session 2: Language and the Politics of New Science: Early Modern Europe (Chair: Jan Surman) Miles MacLeod: Making language safe for natural philosophy: the reconception of language that ground the empirical turn in 17th century Britain Rocío G. Sumillera: The scientific seventeenth-century quest for a universal language: Cave Beck, George Dalgarno and John Wilkins Tilmann Walter: Communication among Scientists as a Social Engagement - the Pragmatics of the 'Medical Republic of Letters' and the Early Modern Scientific Revolution 16:15-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:00 Session 3: Language and the Politics of Science: 20th Century (Chair: Rocío G. Sumillera) Helena Durnová: Mathematical Machines: Automating Thinking? Janet Martin-Nielsen: No to Vietnam: American linguistics and the politicization of data, 1968-1974 Tuesday 30th November 9:30-11:00 Session 4: Science, Language and Translation (Chair: Miles MacLeod) Josefina Rodríguez Arribas: Reading Astrolabes in Medieval Hebrew Tatána Petrasová: The linguistic concept of vernacular language and translations of treatises on architecture (1750-1790) 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:45 Session 5: Scientific Terminology and Vernacular Language I (Chair: Johannes Feichtinger) Liborio Dibattista: The Creation of Neurology Proper Scientific Language by Jean Martin Charcot (1824-1893) Ekaterina Smirnova: 'Opyt' in the Social Lexicon of Modernity: the Dichotomy of Experience/Experiment 12:45-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 6: Scientific Terminology and Vernacular Language II (Chair: Ekaterina Smirnova) Fern Elsdon-Baker: Historiographical Constraints: the legacy of the historical polysemy of the term 'inheritance of acquired characters' Priya Venkatesan: Contested Boundaries: How Scientists Deal With Uncertainty in Language 16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:30 Final discussion: Round Table 17:30 End of the Conference Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.