Lectures
17.03.2023
Deborah Coen — Climate Risk: Historical Reflection on a Vulnerable Science
19.04.2023
Nuno–Castel Branco — Thinking the Earth with the Body: How Anatomist Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) Read History in the Earth’s Strata
24.05.2023
Katharine Gerbner – Obeah/Science African epistemologies, slavery, and the criminalisation of knowledge in the Atlantic World
12.06.2023
Suman Seth – A Decided Inaptitude in his Constitution: Race, Slavery, Disability in the Nineteenth Century British Empire
11.01.2023
Luana Salvarani — Mental Faculties and the Brain between Galenism and Renaissance Politics: A reading from Juan Huarte’s Examen de ingenios
08.02.2023
Mattia Della Rocca – Environment and Information: What is alive and what is dead in J.J. Gibson ecological theory of perception
01.03.2023
Noga Arikha — How far down does top-down go? Franz Boas between psychology and anthropology
08.03.2023
Guido Giglioni – How Not to Trust Your Own Mind: From Bacon to Locke
12.09.2022
Histories of Disease in a Pandemic
(Featuring a talk by Erica Charters)
04.11.2022
Medicine in Translation
History of Plague and Epidemic Disease
New Researchers (2022 Cohort) presented their work
Chiara Lacroix — Parallels between bodily and national integrity
Marie van Haaster — Between philosophy of cognition and history of consolation
Dann Grotum — “Clima” & “Climate” – (Mis)translating and historicising a concept
Mónica Morado Vázquez — Sex, Gender and the Lived Body in Early Modern Hermaphroditism
Simon Werner — Questions of Discipline, the Sociological Imagination, and Social Change in the ‘New’ Africa, c. 1940-1960
25.09.2023
Camille Sallé— Économies du soin en contexte colonial: une histoire des hôpitaux dans la vice-royauté du Pérou, XVIème-XVIIème siècles
Other News and Activities
01.09.2022
Professor Monika Baár joined the EUI on 1 September 2022 as Joint Chair in the History of East-Central Europe and South-Eastern Europe, late 19th century to the present. Professor Baár also became the co-liason professor of the History of Science and medicine Working Group.