LECTURES

H. C. Ørsted as Public

H. C. Ørsted as Public

Although Ørsted is associated with nature Romanticism, he was heavily influenced by the thoughts of enlightenment. The ideal that science should be disseminated to the people, or at least to the classes formed, is already known in Denmark from the 1760s, and with Ørsted's founding of the Society for the spread of nature in 1824, scientific mediation assumed a completely new Dimension. The company had its heyday in the period up to approx. 1860, where, particularly in the physico-chemical areas, it was a major player in Danish research and research policy. In the lecture, key aspects of the company's early history will be illuminated, including the relationship with the Polytechnical College and the founded Danish Natural History Association in 1833. Was there really a public information project, or was it a project for the elite? Did it?

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H. C. Ørsted as Public

Date: 27. Jan 2020
Time: 19.30-21.30

Lecturer: Professor Emeritus Helge Kragh
Institution: Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
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The Lecture is held: Auditorium 1, H.C. Ørsted Building, University Park 5, 2100 Copenhagen Island.

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Please note that parking is not allowed in front of the main entrance to Universitetsparken 5. You can park between the H.C. Ørsted Building and August Krogh Building, in the slightly makeshift car park right next to the new construction, but it requires a special Parking permit. Parking permits can be obtained from SNUs representative at the main entrance to University Park 5 between 10:00 and 18:00. 18:45 - 7:15 pm and must be filled in with car number and date and placed in the windscreen. Easypark can be parked along Nørre Allé.
There is good public transport to University Park, buses 184, 185 and 150S all have stops at University Park, and bus 6A has stopped nearby.

The lecture is part of HCØ2020: The celebration of the 200th anniversary of H.C. Ørsted's discovery of electromagnetism and is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.