Archive 2015-18



Lectures  

February-June 2018 
Series of Talks: Thinking Sciences at Large Towards a Connected History of Science


Blog posts 2015-18


06.02.2018
The Doctor Who Would Be King. Medical Utopias in the Afro-Pacific Region 
Guilluame Lachenal, Pari-Diderot University 

21.02.2018 
Lighting the Enlightenment: Public Illumination in Paris in the Siècle des Lumières 
Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College 

27.02.2018 
Trespassing. Environmental History and Migrations
Marco Armiero, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 

15.03.2018
Travels, Ethnology, and Natural History
Henrique Leitāo, University of Lisbon 

04.05.2018
Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey
Philippe Descole, Collège de France 

08.05.2018
Private Gardens and Public Spaces in Eighteenth century Paris
Gregory Brown, UNLV - University of Nevada 

10.05.2018 
Medicine and the Inquisition in Global Perspective
Maria Pia Donato
CNRS - Cagliari University

14.05.2018
Science and Satire in Early Modern England 
Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology

17.05.2018 
The Roots of Anti-Hypotheticalism in Seventeenth-Century English Science
Robert Iliffe, Oxford University 

28.05.2018
Galileo between Science and Myth
Massimo Bucciantini, Università di Siena 

31.05.2018
From Cartesian to Freudian Wars: New Approaches on Controversies 
Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Samuel Lézé, ENS Lyon 

06.06.2018
Charisma at the Age of Revolutions
David A. Bell, Princeton University 

18.06.2018
Material Practices of Science in a Global Context 
Lissa Roberts (University of Twente)
Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
Otto Sibum (Uppsala University)
Neil Safier (Brown University)
Juan Pimentel (CSIC)
James Delbourgo (Rutgers University)

19.06.2018
Exploring French Asia: Sciences and Knowledge 
Blake Smith (Max Weber Fellow)
Sarah Easterby-Smith (St. Andrews)
Dorit Brixius (German Historical Institute, Paris)
Alexander Statman (Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Berlin)
Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris) 
  

Workshops & Conferences

17-18.09.2015 
Conference in honour of Roger Chartier — The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s Mind

11.2016
Lists: Translating Ethnographic Data Tables into Maps  

05.12.2016
Chasing Unicorns and Amassing Rhinos to Think about the History of Knowledge
with Bruno A Martinho, HEC3 & Camille Sallé, HEC1

05-07.04.2017
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 
Organised at the EUI in collaboration with the Centre Alexandre-Koyré
Event Summary 

22.11.2017
Early Modern Collecting in Scandinavia 
Valdemar Grambye, Visiting Student, University of Southern Denmark


Doctoral Thesis Defences
2017

02.05.2017 
José Beltrán — Nature in draft images and overseas natural history in the work of Charles Plumier (1646-1704)
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2018

21.03.2018 
Mikkel Munthe Jensen — From learned cosmopolitanism to scientific inter-nationalism : the patriotic transformation of Nordic academia and academic culture during the long eighteenth century 
EUI CADMUS

19.01.2018
Annelie Grosse — The (self-) fashioning of an eighteenth-Century Christian philosopher : religion, science and morality in the writings and life of Jean Henri Samuel Formey (1711-1797)
EUI CADMUS

28.11.2018
Simon Dumas Primbault — Esprits de papier : une histoire matérielle du travail savant à travers les brouillons de Viviani et Leibniz (ca 1650-1700)
EUI CADMUS

11.10.2019 
Mikko Toivanen — Colonial tours : the leisure and anxiety of empire in travel writing from Java, Ceylon and the straits settlements, 1840-1875
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2019

29.11.2019
Déborah Dubald — Capital nature: A History of French Municipal Museums of Natural History, 1795-1870
EUI CADMUS  

31.05.2019
Catherine Gibson — Nations on the drawing board: ethnographic map-making in the Russian Empire’s Baltin provinces, 1840-1920
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2020

26.05.2020
Bohdan Shumylovych — Mediating the land, landing the media Soviet Ukrainian television and popular media culture, 1957-1989
EUI CADMUS


29.09.2020
Martin Vailly — Le monde au bout des doigts : François Le Large, le globe de Coronelli et les cultures géographiques dans la France de Louis XIV 
EUI CADMUS

16.10.2020

Ekaterina Rybkyna — Playing with radio waves: radio amateurs in Russia, 1920-1930s
EUI CADMUS

Museums  & Library  Visits
11.03.2016
Viviani, Galileo, Ghiberti: The Manuscript Traces of Florentine Science 



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