The Scientific Session “History of Science and Technology — Current Concerns” (May 12, 2023, Brasov, Romania)

Abstract

The Brasov Branch of the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CRIFST) of the Romanian Academy organized this scientific session at the Natural Gas Documentation and Information Center in Mediaş, Romania. Apart from historians and other specialists from Romania and other countries, the session was attended by two researchers from Ukraine, representing Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (“A summary of the debates at the XXVIII Ukrainian Conference ‘The history of science and technology in crisis periods of social development’”), and National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (“Outstanding results of the studies on the history of sciences at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”). Other presentations reviewed in the article are devoted to the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the natural gas sector in Romania and Europe, museum, archive, biographical studies, history of natural gas sector in Romania, history of the Brashov branch of the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Most part of these presentations were delivered by Romanian researchers with CRIFST membership.