<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="msg1155616297365226834"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">Reminder: Abstract deadline 15 December<br>
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">The workshop is part of
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Gravitational</span> Constant, from the Local to the Universal</i>, an interdisciplinary collaborative project between St Andrews and the
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 and Philosophy of Physics, University of Bonn </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">(</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravconstant.net%2F&data=05%7C01%7Craws1%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%7C70f20cac98a14f23905808dac1801094%7C49a50445bdfa4b79ade3547b4f3986e9%7C1%7C0%7C638035053025890313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=S4ysLzoURLO7LBjZDAlyYAzCy8rdcFLz0Km1BFcltW8%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">https://www.gravconstant.net/</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">
 ). The project brings perspectives from transnational history, philosophy, mathematics and physics to bear on the question of how the constant,
<i>G,</i> was transformed from a controversial innovation in the 1880s to an unquestioned fundamental constant of nature by 1915. The aim of the workshop is to explore the wider context and foster collaborations around emerging research
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<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">The 2-day workshop will treat gravitation as a case study in a wider context of interpretational moves at the turn of the 19th to 20th century from the local to the universal that took place
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<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">measurement  </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0 0 8pt 0">
<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">circulation practices  </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0 0 8pt 0">
<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">ideas about the role of laws  </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0 0 8pt 0">
<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">translation </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:#1d1c1d;font-size:12pt">Each theme will start with an invited speaker who sets the scene; followed by contributed papers; concluding with a discussion led by one of the project team on where the specific case of gravitation
 fits into the emerging context.</span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">  </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Invited speakers are: </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Daniel Mitchell (Measurement)(IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ) </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0px">
<span style="font-size:12pt">Richard Staley (Circulation Practices)(Cambridge and Copenhagen) </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0px">
<span style="font-size:12pt">Bryan Roberts (Role of Laws)(London School of Economics)  </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;margin:0px">
<span style="font-size:12pt">Michael Gordin (Translation)(Princeton)
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt" lang="en-US">We invite contributed papers of 20 minutes that address one of the above themes from a historical or philosophical standpoint.  Proposals
</span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">should include an abstract (c.250 words), state which theme they are addressing, and give a brief biography of the speaker.  </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Proposals should be submitted to Isobel Falconer (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:ijf3@st-andrews.ac.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">ijf3@st-andrews.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">)
 by <b>15 December. </b>Decisions will be notified at the beginning of January. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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