Hermeneutics of Science and Technology - A Reconsideration

Registration: please register to the conference on the website: http://ishs.hu/registration

Background

The International Society for Hermeneutics and Science (ISHS) was established in 1993 to develop an understanding of the role of hermeneutics in natural sciences (and technology) through, among other activities, organizing meetings, and facilitate discussions.

http://www.ishs.hu/

The first ISHS conference was organized twenty years ago, in September 1993 in Hungary and the last one was held in August 2010 in Austria. In between we had many meetings, conferences, workshops, etc. as you can consult our webpage:

http://www.ishs.hu/meetings

In these decades there happened some essential changes in the intellectual environment of the studies on science and technology - and perhaps some parts of them was influenced by activities of the society.

On the 2013 - twentieth anniversary - conference of the ISHS we would like to consider these changes: to understand in a better and clearer way the specificity of this approach to the philosophy of science and technology, to enumerate the contributions of this view to the understanding of nature, of science, of technology, of human being, of society, and so on, moreover to reconsider the possibilities of the hermeneutic views on science, technology, and the related fields in the recent cultural and intellectual environment.

To support this possibility we figured out a special structure of our 2013 conference: the context change will be included into the structure of the conference in a way. The conference starts in Vienna, Austria and after two conference days we will take a ship to travel along the river Danube to Budapest, Hungary, where the conference will be finished with two another conference days. It is probably unnecessary to emphasize the significance and the complexity of this Austrian/Hungarian context change – even in the case of conferencing and in many more points of view. Hopefully you will have some personal experience on them in August.

General plan of the conference

Part One: Vienna

28 July 2013, Sunday, Vienna
Arrival at Vienna
Evening: Informal meeting at the Hotel bar

29-30 July 2013 Monday & Tuesday, Vienna
Lectures

29 July 2013, Monday, Vienna
Evening: Bus travel to Pfaffstatten visiting a Heurigen

30 July 2013, Tuesday, Vienna
Evening: free for Vienna sight seeing etc.

Part Two: Vienna-Danube-Budapest

31 July 2013, Wednesday, Vienna-Danube-Budapest
7.45h: Bus transfer to the Danube ship station in Vienna
Ship starts at 9.00h and arrives in Budapest at 14.30h.
Free time for Budapest

Part Three: Budapest

1-2 August 2013, Thursday & Friday, Budapest
Lectures

1 August 2013, Thursday, Budapest
Evening: free time

2 August 2013, Friday, Budapest
Evening: Farewell Party in Budapest

3 August 2013, Saturday, Budapest
Ship goes back to Vienna at 9.00h and arrives in Vienna at 15.30h.

The venues

Vienna: We are so lucky that in Vienna the conference (lectures and accommodations) is accommodated in a very nice Castle-Hotel: the Hotel Wilheminenberg. Here you can see it: http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Schloss-Wilhelminenberg/en/

Budapest: the lectures will be held on the Lagymanyos Campus of the Eotvos University (here you can see it:http://ttk.elte.hu/)

Accommodations

Vienna: We would propose the above mentioned Hotel Wilheminenberg. Number of room available till May 5, double rooms for individual use (this means, that the double rooms can be used as single rooms) in a relatively good price. Costs for hotel room and breakfast for one day: Euro 115,- (all taxes are included).

If you choice this, please reserve your accommodation directly at the Hotel Wilhemienberg latest by May 5. Important: All participants have to use special reservation code of the conference when booking: ISHS CONFERENCE 2013
Contact for reservation: Mrs. Nicole Gedlicka +43 1 4858503 555.
Reservations should be made to the following e-mail address:
 [email protected]

Budapest: A list of hotels in different categories close to the campus will be offered soon on the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/accommodation2013

Financial information

The conference fee will be Euro 350,-

Conference materials, conference rooms, coffee breaks & 2 lunches in Vienna and in Budapest as well as the fee of the Farewell Party in Budapest are included in the conference fee. Accommodation and travel to Budapest and back, and the Heurigen in Pfaffstatten is not included.

Travel options: The price for ship ticket (Vienna-Budapest-Vienna): Euro 125,-  Alternative if you do not like shipping: there are frequent trains from Vienna to Budapest and back for Euro 80,- If you like it a bus travel to Pfaffstatten, visiting a Heurigen will be payed Euro 25,-.

Schedule and important dates

• please register to the conference on the website: http://ishs.hu/registration
• to validate your registration please transfer your registration fee. The financial information you can find at the webpage: http://www.ishs.hu/program2013
• before 5 May 2013 please book your room at the Hotel Wilhemienberg if you select this (suggested) hotel
• until 5 May please send an information about your choice between ship and train in the Vienna-Budapest-Vienna relation
• until 5 May please reserve your accommodation in Budapest (the list of suggested hotels are coming soon ion the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/accommodation2013)
• from the middle of May all the relevant information, the program, the abstracts, etc. you can find the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/
• 28 July 2013 conference opening

We would be really happy to meet you on the conference. If you need any additional information do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers:

Guenther Fleck
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
[email protected]

Paul Ertl
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
[email protected]

Olga Kiss
Corvinus University
Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]

Laszlo Ropolyi
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]