Giuliano Pancaldi Address - CIS

Giuliano Pancaldi
Address:
International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS)
Department of Philosophy
University of Bologna
Via Zamboni 38, 40126 Bologna
Italy
Tel. and fax: +39.051.2098331
E-mail: [email protected]
Current position:
Professor of the History of Science, and Head, International Centre for the History of Universities
and Science, University of Bologna (www.cis.unibo.it)
Coordinator, Doctoral Programme in Science, Technology, and Humanities (STH), University of
Bologna in cooperation with the Universities of Exeter and Konstanz
(http://137.204.24.205/STH/index.html)
Education:
Ph.D. (D.Phil.), History of Science, University of Oxford
Dottore (“laurea summa cum laude”), Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna
Undergraduate studies in engineering, University of Bologna
Awards/Fellowships:
Dibner Institute at MIT, Senior Fellow, 2002-2003
Fulbright Fellow, 1985-1986
British Academy - Wolfson Foundation Fellow, 1978-1979
Career:
1972-1976
1976-1982
of Bologna
1982-1986
of Bologna
1986-1988
1986-
Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna
Assistant Professor, History of Science, Department of Philosophy, University
Associate Professor, History of Science, Department of Philosophy, University
Tutor, Scuola Superiore di Storia della Scienza, Domus Galilaeana, Pisa
Professor, History of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna
International:
1978-1979 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London
1985-1986 Visiting Professor, Office for History of Science and Technology, University of
California at Berkeley
2002-2003
Senior Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT,
Cambridge MA, and Visiting Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard
University
Promoter and co-organizer , since 1988, of the International Summer School in History of
Science, a joint initiative of scholars from Berkeley, Bologna, Paris, and Uppsala. Nine Schools
have been held so far (the School convenes every second year). The School has been attended by
more than two hundred doctoral students and young scholars from eighteen countries. Dates and
themes have been as follows:
Bologna 1988: “New Perspectives on Enlightenment Science”
Uppsala 1990: “Science and Society, 1850-1914”
Berkeley 1992: “The Natural Sciences and their Applications between the two World Wars”
Paris 1994: “Science and Technology after the Second World War”
Bologna 1996: "The Ends of Natural Philosophy: the Scientific Revolution in the Long View"
Uppsala 1998: “The Structure of Knowledge”
Berkeley 2000: “New Knowledge and Hi-Tech in the 20th Century”
Paris 2002: “Rethinking Scientific Knowledge in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries”
Bologna 2004: “Current Approaches to the History of Science”
Uppsala 2006: “The Two Cultures in the Republic of Letters.”
Some of the lectures delivered at the School have been published in the Berkeley, Uppsala, and
Bologna Studies in History of Science.
Promoter and coordinator, since 2007, of the Ph.D. program in Science, Technology, and
Humanities (STH), a joint initiative of the universities of Bologna, Exeter, and Konstanz.
Administration:
1991-
Founding Director, then Head of the International Centre for the History of
Universities and Science, University of Bologna
1991-1999 Representative of the University of Bologna in the Coimbra Group, Brussels
1995-1999 Member of the Steering Committee of the Coimbra Group, Brussels
1997-2000
Director, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna
Scientific journals (member of the editorial board):
The British Journal for the History of Science (Oxford and London), 1989-1993
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (Berkeley), 2007Intersezioni. Rivista di storia delle idee (Bologna), 1981Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy (London), 2000Nuncius. Annali di storia della scienza (Florence), 1986-2005
Physis. Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza (Rome), 1991Social Studies of Science (London), 1981-1993
Editor:
Bologna Studies in History of Science (series, 1989-, eleven volumes published so far; list at:
www.cis.unibo.it);
Universitas. Newsletter of the International Centre for the History of Universities and Science
(1991-2000; since 1995 available also on the Internet: www.cis.unibo.it);
Bologna Science Classics Online (2000-), available at: www.cis.unibo.it, four books published so
far.
Professional societies:
Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Socius ordinarius)
History of Science Society
Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza (member of the executive committee).
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Correspondent
Administration of research projects (1995-):
Italian Ministry for Universities, PRIN 2007: “The body and the machines: life sciences and
electricity in Italy from the Enlightenment to the industrial age”
European Union, “Culture 2000” Program, 2002-2005: “Universities and the European cultural
identity”
Italian Ministry for Universities, 2003-2005: “Science and technology in Italy, 1745-1918:
quantitative studies”
Italian Ministry for Universities, 2001-2003: “Electricity and life: Italian contributions in the
European context”
University of Bologna, 2000-2002: “Humanities computing and the history of ideas”
Italian Ministry for Universities, 1999-2001: “IT tools for the history of the life sciences”
Italian Ministry for Universities, 1995-1998: “Science and technology in Italy, 1860-1918”
Conferences:
(as a convener)
“Science and national frontiers: the history of science in Europe”, CIS, 2003
“Electric bodies: episodes in the history of medical electricity”, CIS, 2001, with Paola Bertucci
“Nature and culture: on European cultural identities”, University of Bologna, 2001
“Humanities computing: philosophy and digital resources”, University of Bologna, 2000
“L'Europa delle idee”, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna, 2000
“Luigi Galvani International Workshop”, CIS, 1998, with Marco Bresadola
“Universities and the sciences”, CIS, 1991
(as a speaker)
"Non imbalsamate Darwin, grazie", Darwin Day, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, 4-8 febbraio
2009
"Instruments of Enlightenment: Beddoes, Davy, and the Battery", International Conference
"Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment", Royal Society of London, 12 December 2008
“The Case and the Canon in Laboratory Life”, International Conference “The Case and the Canon”,
Università di Urbino, 26 June 2008
“L'età dell'elettricità: radici e interpretazioni”, Università di Pavia, Museo della Tecnica Elettrica,
conferenza annuale d'inaugurazione, Pavia, 8 March 2008
“Deluc and Volta: imponderables, measurement, and the battery”, European Institute of the Geneva
University and Voltaire Museum, 16-19 April 2008
“Galvani e Volta”, con Paola Bertucci e Marco Bresadola, Festival della Scienza, Genova,
November 2007
“Interpreting the early age of electricity”, IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power,
Newark, USA, 3-5 August 2007
“Evoluzione o disegno intelligente?”, convegno “Bibbia e scienza: un confronto secolare”,
Associazione Biblia, Pontremoli, 2007
“Scienza e società: il punto di vista dello storico della scienza”, Università di Cassino, 2007
“Scientific life in Thomson's early lab”, “Foxfest”, History Faculty, Oxford, 2006
“Le origini della paletnologia in Italia”, Finale Ligure – Università di Genova, 2006
“Società della conoscenza: nuovi ponti tra le due culture”, Facoltà di Scienze, conferenza su invito,
Università di Bologna, 2006
Second International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Krakow, 2006
(plenary lecture, invited speaker)
“Assolutamente Kelvin”, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Cassino, 19 maggio 2006
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 2005
“Natural philosophy and technology: an interpretive model”, Societat Catalana d'Història de la
Ciència i de la Tècnica, Barcelona, 2005
"Alessandro Volta: filosofia naturale e comunità scientifica nell'Europa dei Lumi"
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlino, 28-29 novembre 2005
“History and the Public Understanding of Science”, University of Oxford, 2004
Dibner Institute Seminar, MIT, Cambridge MA, 2003
OHST seminar, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
Fishbein Centre for History of Science, University of Chicago, 2003
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 2002
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, 2002
CNAM conférences, Paris, 2001
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1999
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, 1999
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 1998
20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998
Gesellschaft Deuthscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, Lübeck, 1997
Stanford History of Science Seminars, Stanford university, 1996
OHST seminars, University of California at Berkeley 1996
UC San Diego History of Science seminars, San Diego, 1996
“Natural Sciences and Human Thought”, Villa Vigoni Seminars, Como, 1993
Office for History of Science, Uppsala, 1990
Centre for the History of Science, University of Manchester, 1990
18th International Congress of the History of Science, Hamburg, 1989
“Ideology in the Life Sciences” , Harvard, 1989
Modern History Faculty seminars, Oxford, 1989
Nobel Symposium, Stockholm, 1989
Scuola Superiore di Storia della Scienza, Domus Galilaeana, Pisa, 1988
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 1988
OHST seminars, University of California at Berkeley, 1986
17th International Congress of the History of Science, Berkeley, 1985
“The Darwinian Heritage”, Florence, 1982
“Factors in the Diffusion of Science across Cultural Frontiers”, Valencia, 1980
Publications
Books:
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment(Princeton University Press, 2003;
paperback edition: 2005). Twenty four essay-reviews and reviews have appeared so far. They are
available at: http://cis.alma.unibo.it/pancaldi_volta.htm
Darwin in Italy. Science across Cultural Frontiers (Indiana University Press, 1991)
Charles Darwin:“storia” ed “economia” della natura (La Nuova Italia, 1977)
La generazione spontanea nelle prime ricerche dello Spallanzani (Domus Galilaeana, 1972)
Books edited or co-edited:
Charles Darwin, L'origine delle specie (1859), new Italian translation and ed. by Giuliano Pancaldi
(BUR, Rizzoli, Milan, 2009)
Augmenting Comprehension. Digital Tools and the History of Ideas (Office for Humanities
Communication, King's College, London 2004), with Dino Buzzetti and Harold Short
Natura, cultura, identità. Le università e l'identità europea (CIS, University of Bologna, 2004)
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science(Oxford University Press, 2003), with
James Bartholomew, Jim Bennett, Frederic L. Holmes, Rachel Laudan; Editor in Chief: J. L.
Heilbron
Electric Bodies. Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity(CIS, University of Bologna 2001),
with Paola Bertucci
Alessandro Volta: Elettricità. Scritti scelti (Giunti, Florence, 1999)
L'Europa delle idee. Cultura europea e tradizioni nazionali (CLUEB - Dipartimento di Filosofia,
University of Bologna, 1999)
Luigi Galvani International Workshop. Proceedings (CIS, University of Bologna, 1999), with
Marco Bresadola
Cento anni di radio. Le radici dell'invenzione (SEAT, Torino, 1995), with Anna Guagnini
Radio. Da Marconi alla musica delle stelle / Radio. From Marconi to the Music of the Universe
(exhibition catalogue; Grafis, Bologna, 1995)
Le università e le scienze / Universities and the Sciences (Aldo Martello Editore, Milan, 1993)
Maurizio Bufalini: medicina, scienza e filosofia (CLUEB, Bologna, 1990)
Teleologia e darwinismo. La corrispondenza tra Charles Darwin e Federico Delpino (CLUEB,
Bologna, 1984)
I congressi degli scienziati italiani nell'età del positivismo (CLUEB, Bologna, 1983)
Evoluzione: biologia e scienze umane (il Mulino, Bologna, 1976)
Articles and chapters in books:
“Modern science in Italy”, in D. N. Livingstone and R. L. Numbers (eds.), Modern Science in
National and International Context (The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 8), Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming
“Evoluzione casuale o disegno intelligente?”, in Scienza e Bibbia: un confronto secolare,
forthcoming
“Interpreting the early age of electricity”, in 2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric
Power, Proceedings (2008), pp. 212 - 221
“Storia della scienza e storia della filosofia in dialogo con Santucci”, in Un illuminismo scettico. La
ricerca filosofica di Antonio Santucci, a cura di Walter Tega e Luigi Turco, Bologna, il Mulino,
2008, pp. 189-194
“Evoluzionismo in Italia: nuove prospettive di ricerca”, in La nascita della paletnologia in Liguria,
a cura di A. De Pascale, A. Del Lucchese, O. Raggio, Finale Ligure-Bordighera, 2008, pp.31-39
“Società della conoscenza. Che cosa sta cambiando nei nostri rapporti con la scienza”, in Etica
della convinzione ed etica della responsabilità, a cura di Sabrina Fattori, Comune di Savignano sul
Rubicone, 2008, pp. 43-53
“The Republic of Letters in Transition: William Thomson and Natural Philosophy ca. 1850”, in
Michal Kokowski (ed.), The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural
Integration of Europe, Krakow, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007, pp. 49-55
“Evoluzionismo in Italia: Nuove prospettive di ricerca”, in La nascita della paletnologia in Liguria,
forthcoming
“Wartime chemistry in Italy: Industry, the military, and the professors”, in Roy MacLeod and
Jeffrey A. Johnson (eds.), Frontline and Factory: Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical
Industry at War,1914-1924 , Springer (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology), 2006, pp. 61-74
"Introduction" (with D. Buzzetti and H. Short) to: Augmenting Comprehension. Digital Tools and
the History of Ideas, eds. Dino Buzzetti, Giuliano Pancaldi, Harold Short (Office for Humanities
Communication, King's College, London 2004), pp. 1-14
The articles: Biogenetic law, Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Extinction, Fact and theory, Galvani
and Volta, Holism, In vitro fertilization, Instinct, Instruments (biological), Lamarckism, Law of
science, Levi Montalcini, Life, Museum, Naturalism and physicalism, Nature, Network and virtual
college, Organism, Priority, Progress, Rational/irrational, Tacit knowledge, Teleology, Zoology, in
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Editor in chief: J. L. Heilbron, Oxford
University Press, 2003)
“L'evoluzionismo darwiniano: successi e controversie”, in Storia della scienza, Sandro Petruccioli
director, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. VII, L'Ottocento, Rome, 2003, pp. 850-856
“Nuovi strumenti bibliografici per la storia della scienza”, in Laboratori di psicologia tra passato e
futuro, ed. Mauro Di Giandomenico, Pensa Multimedia. Lecce, 2003, pp. 569-582
“Appropriating invention. The comparative reception of the Voltaic battery in Europe”, in MarieNoelle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, H. Otto Sibum (eds.), Instruments, Travel, and Science,
Routledge, 2002, pp.
"Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827)", in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy, ed. John Zumerchik,
Macmillan, New York, 2002, pp. 1205-1207
“Nuovi fenomeni: la pila di Volta”, in Storia della scienza, Sandro Petruccioli director, Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana, vol. VI, L'età dei lumi, Rome, 2002, pp. 231-236
“Le conseguenze impreviste dell'invenzione: le ‘macchine inutili' di Alessandro Volta”, in Correnti
elettriche e illuminismo scientifico, ed. Corrado Sinigaglia, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2002, pp.113123
“Scienza e filosofia: il filo d'Arianna dell'impresa voltiana”, Evoluzioni e rivoluzioni dell'impresa
scientifica: la pila di volta due secoli dopo, ed. Riccardo Galli, Como, Centro di Cultura scientifica
“A.Volta”, 2001, pp. 12-28
"Introduction" (with Paola Bertucci) to: Electric Bodies. Episodes in the History of Medical
Electricity eds. Paola Bertucci, Giuliano Pancaldi CIS, Università di Bologna, Bologna, 2001, pp.
5-15
"Perche' non c'e' stato un Darwin italiano?", in Giovanni Canestrini Zoologist and Darwinist, eds.
Alessandro Minelli, Sandra Casellato, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, 2001,
pp. 189-200
"Scientific objects in history”. Essay review of Lorraine Daston, Biographies of scientific objects,
Universitas. Newsletter of the International Centre for the History of Universities and Science., 9,
n. 13, 2000, pp. 7-10
"L'Europe des idées: culture européenne et traditions nationales", in Nourritures, saveurs, gouts,
modes. Colloque EUxIN 1999, ed. Alain Blayac, Universite Paul-Valery-Montpellier III,
Montpellier, 2000, pp. 19-26
“Alessandro Volta da ‘filosofo naturale' a scienziato”, Automazione Energia Informazione, Organo
della Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana, vol. 86, no. 9, September 1999, pp. 48- 52
“The German model and the origins of the Italian ‘Riunioni degli scienziati'”, in Zwei Jahrhunderte
Wissenschaft und Forschung in Deutschland. Entwicklungen – Perspektiven, ed. Dietrich v.
Engelhardt (Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart, 1998), pp. 171-178
“The social uses of past science: celebrating Volta in Fascist Italy”, in R. Zwilling (ed.), Natural
Sciences and Human Thought, Springer, 1995, pp. 217-224;
“Osservazioni critiche” (commentary on “Scrivere la biografia di Darwin”, by James Moore),
Intersezioni, xv, n. 1 April 1995, pp. 136-138
“Le scienze della vita”, in Un decennio di storiografia italiana sul secolo XVIII, ed. Alberto
Postigliola, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 1995, pp. 343-353
“L'utilità della ricerca inutile. A proposito di scienza, storia e filosofia”, Saecularia Nona,
Università di Bologna, Annual 12/1995, pp.82-85
“The technology of nature: Marx's thoughts on Darwin”, in I. B. Cohen (ed.), The Natural Sciences
and the Social Sciences, Kluwer, 1994, pp. 257-274
“Vito Volterra: cosmopolitan ideals and nationality in the Italian scientific community between the
Belle époque and the First World War”, Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 1993,
pp. 21-37
“Vito Volterra e la collaborazione scientifica internazionale”, in Scienza, tecnologia e istituzioni in
Europa, ed. R. Simili, Laterza, Bari, 1992, pp. 101-116
“Invenzione e imitazione della natura: nuove testimonianze sulla scoperta della pila”, Atti della
Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Rendiconti, Serie XIV,
Tomo IX, Vol. I, 1991-2, pp. 47-57
“Universities vis-à-vis free associations” (commentary), in Solomon's House Revisited, Nobel
Symposium 75, ed. T. Frängsmyr, Science History Publications, Canton, 1990, pp.65-71
“Teorie e tradizioni disciplinary: riflessioni su Charles Darwin e la botanica”, in Tradizioni
filosofiche e mutamenti scientifici, eds. M. Mugnai and S. Poggi, il Mulino, Bologna, 1990, pp. 211236
“Electricity and life. Volta's path to the battery”, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological
Sciences, 1990, pp. 123-160
“L'università moderna”, in I luoghi del conoscere, Pizzi, Milan, 1988, pp. 173-178
“Luigi Galvani”, in Storia illustrata di Bologna, No 15/6, ed. Walter Tega, AIEP, Repubblica di
San Marino, 1988
“La teoria delle specie di Giambattista Brocchi”, in L'opera scientifica di Giambattista Brocchi
(1772-1826), Tipografia G. Rumor, Vicenza, 1987, pp. 41-53
“Gli scienziati, i filosofi, la città”, in Bologna, ed. Renato Zangheri, Laterza, Bari, 1986, pp.355-387
“Darwin's intellectual development”, in D. Kohn (ed.), The Darwinian Heritage, Princeton
University Press, 1985, pp. 259-263
“Darwin tra storia della biologia e storia delle idee”, in L'anno di Darwin. Problemi di un
centenario, ed. Walter Tega, Pratiche Editrice, Parma, 1985, pp.37-43
“Un linguaggio per la zoologia”, in I congressi degli scienziati italiani, ed. G. Pancaldi, CLUEB,
Bologna, 1983, pp. 135-152
“Nuove fonti per la storia dei congressi. Scritti di Charles Babbage, Carlo Luciano Bonaparte e
Lorentz Oken”, in I congressi degli scienziati italiani, ed. G. Pancaldi, CLUEB, Bologna, 1983, pp.
181-201
“La rivoluzione darwiniana in Italia”, Scientia, 1983, pp. 193-208.
“Scienziati e filosofie del progresso 1860-1880”, in Scienza e filosofia nella cultura positivistica,
ed. A.Santucci, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1982, pp. 193-212
“Cosmopolitismo e formazione della comunità scientifica italiana, 1828-1839”, Intersezioni, II,
1982, pp. 331-343
“La generazione spontanea fra sistema ed esperimento. Spallanzani e la generazione degli infusori
1761-1765, in Lazzaro Spallanzani e la biologia del Settecento, eds. G.Montalentí and Paolo Rossi,
Olschki, Florence, 1982, pp. 283-294
“Charles Darwin e il pensiero sociale. Alcune prospettive storiografiche recenti”, Il pensiero
politico, XII, 1982, pp. 222-230.
“Scientific internationalism and the British Association”, in R. MacLeod and P. Collins (eds.), The
Parliament of Science. The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831-1981, Science
Reviews, 1981, pp. 145-169;
“The history and social studies of science in Italy”, Social Studies of Science, 1980, pp. 351-374
“Conoscenza fine a se stessa, tecniche e pubblico della scienza nel ‘Preliminary Discourse' di
J.Herschel”, in Eredità dell'Illuminismo, ed. A. Santucci, il Mulino, Bologna 1979, pp. 435-462.
“'Filosofia zoologica' e biologia", Rivista di filosofia, 1979, pp. 184-5
“Joseph Black: la chimica fra newtonismo e rivoluzione industriale, in Scienza e filosofia scozzese
nell'età di Hume, ed. A. Santucci, il Mulino, Bologna 1976, pp. 205-218
“Storia e sociologia della scienza: alcune recenti pubblicazioni”, Rivista di filosofia, 1976, pp. 541547
“L''economia della natura' da Cuvier a Darwin”, Rivista di filosofia, 1975, pp.77-111
“Spazio e tempo nella teoria darwiniana”, Rivista di filosofia, 1973, pp.3-17
Translations (from English and French into Italian):
C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species (Ital. transl., BUR Rizzoli, Milan, 2009)
K. R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations (Ital. transl., il Mulino, 1972)
The essays included in Evoluzione: biologia e scienze umane (il Mulino, Bologna, 1976)
Supervision of doctoral and Laurea dissertations (2001-):
Matteo Serafini, Bologna in the knowledge society, (STH Doctoral dissertation, 2007-)
Christian Carletti, Electrical peripheries: Science and technological innovation in the Regno
Lombardo-Veneto (Ph.D. diss., 2004-2007)
Danilo Fabbri, Futurism and electricity (Laurea diss., 2006-2007)
Maria Rachele De Luca, Ageing: medical and cultural perspectives (Laurea diss., 2006-2007)
Matteo Serafini, Europe, knowledge, and productivity: at the roots of “knowledge societies”
(Laurea diss., 2005-206)
Pierfrancesco Lostia, “Tought styles” and “thought collectives”: Ludwik Fleck and scientific
knowledge (Laurea diss, 2005-2006)
Emanuele Coco, The biology of altruism: William Donald Hamilton (Ph.D. diss., 2001-2004,
fellowship)
Andrea Grignolio, IT models and immunology in the 1950s (Ph.D. diss, 2001-2004, fellowship)
Monica Del Punta, GMOs in the public sphere (Laurea diss., 2003-2004)
Gavino Zucca, The precautionary principle and the epistemology of “bounded rationality” (Laurea
diss., 2003-2004)
Vittoria Cofone, The electrical machines of Antonio Pacinotti (Laurea diss., 2004-2005)
Dario Mascotto, History of science publishing in Italy (Laurea diss., 2004-2005)
Alessia Proietti, Technologies of the human body: changing sex (Laurea diss., 2004-2005)
Matteo Giorgioni, Towards a sociology of anti-AIDS drugs (Laurea Diss., 2004-2005)
Caterina Coluccio, Teaching science through the history of science: thermodynamics (2004-2005)
Giacomo Poderi, Philosophy and sociology of the open source movement (Laurea diss., 2004-2005)
Paolo Palmieri, Banking in a knowledge society (Laurea diss., 2005)
E-learning:
E-learning courses on the History of science offered at the University of Bologna since the year
2000 are available at: http://www.studiareonline.org/ and
http://www.almachannel.unibo.it/portale/index.htm
E-publishing:
Bologna Science Classics Online, series editor. The four books published since the year 2000
are
available at: http://www.cis.unibo.it/cis13b/bsco3/Default.asp
Online multimedia:
“Bologna: le scienze, i libri, la città” (1998), www.cis.unibo.it
Science popularization and multimedia:
Exhibition: “Radio: da Marconi alla musica delle stelle” / “The wireless revolution”, Bologna 1995,
New York 1996
(February 2009)