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TRANSCULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
1ST YOUNG SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
PARIS, 10TH - 12TH SEPTEMBER 2019
10th
SESSION 1
Tuesday
PLENARY LECTURE 1
OPENING
13:00 - 13:30
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:45
13:30 - 14:00
The Khagolādhyāya: One of the earliest Sanskrit astronomical treatises with Islamic in�uenceSho Hirose (ETH Zürich)
Garda Elsherif (University of Mainz)
On the translation of scienti�c and philosophical texts in the early Abbasid Caliphate (9th century) and the philosophical objective of translation in the Kindī-circle
John Smeaton's research on cement mixtures, and its sources in Roman technology, French military expertise, artisanal know-how and chemical analysisAndrew Morris (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Kateryna Pasichnyk (Martin Luther University)
Medical knowledge in the Western borderlands of the eighteenth-century Russian empire
Registration
Opening & Welcome
Ana Simões, President of the ESHS
Early modern mathematics as transcultural knowledge: a re�ection on the historian’s tools Samuel Gessner (SYRTE - Paris Observatory)
11:45 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
Salle Cassini
Salle Cassini
[Chair: Laure Miolo] [Chair: Nicolas Nio]
Translating Astronomy Technology Transfer
PLENARY LECTURE 2
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2
14:45 - 15:15
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15
Under the same stars: astrology as a connecting knowledge between culturesLuís Ribeiro (CIUHCT)
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge)
Writers of the Lost Ark: Catholic Historiographies of Science in the Chinese Rites Controversy, c. 1640-1742
Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University, UK)
Conjuring the 'spirit of Laplace': The analytical works of Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
From a Physical to Human Relativity: Raoul Hausmann’s and D.H. Lawrence’s Cosmological AlternativesAbigael Van Alst (MDRN/KU Leuven)
Fatima Borrmann (MDRN/KU Leuven)
From the Cosmos to Evolution and Gender: Arabella Kenealy’s ‘Great Potter’s Wheel’
Christoph Richter-Rodiek (MDRN/KU Leuven)
Einstein vs. Neinstein: Anti-Relativism in the Works of Salomo Friedländer
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
16:45 - 18:00 Three case studies of mathematicians in the Third Reich (Erich Bessel-Hagen, Felix Hausdor�, B.L. van der Waerden): Paths and detours to a Riemann biography
Erwin Neuenschwander (Institute of Mathematics, University of Zürich)
14:30 - 14:45 BREAK
14:00 - 14:30Kaan Ucsu (Istanbul University)Translation of Atlas Maior into Turkish
Robrecht De Boodt (MDRN/KU Leuven)
Colonial Domination by Resisting Cultural Assimilation
Salle Cassini
[Chair: Garda Elsherif ] [Chair: Robrecht de Boodt]
Maps and Stars (En)countering Einstein [Symposium]
11:00 - 11:30
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 3
SESSION 4
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Where to place a diagram? The case study of “Treatise on Measurement and Calculation” and its various translationsMichael Friedman (Humboldt University)
Jan Makovský (Czech Academy of Science)
Learning mathematics in XVIIIth and early XIXth century Bohemia
Nicolas Michel (Université Paris-Diderot / SPHERE)
Historical Geometry: Chasles as an historian and practitioner of mathematics
Transnational Archaeology: How Egyptian workers contributed to the �ndings of German-led excavations in Egypt, 1898-1914
Maximilian Georg (Leipzig University)
Thomas Mougey (Maastrich University)
The Scienti�c Conference as Transcultu-ral Space and Practice. The Case of the Scienti�c Conferences at the Universal and Colonial Expositions, 1889-1958
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
Sandip Kana (King's College London)
Technical tryst with America: The birth of the Indian technical nation
“To the King our Sovereign”: Comparing “Transcultural” Knowledge Production in Works by Manuel Godinho de Erédia and Felipe Guamán Poma de AyalaChase C. Smith (Independent Scholar)
11thWednesday
[Chair: Idit Chikurel]
Drawing Maths Transference of Knowledge
[Chair: Noa Sophie Kohler]
[Chair: Alessandra Passariello]
Construction of Knowledge Colonial Technology Transfer
[Chair: Maximilian Georg]
12:30 - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 - 15:15 BREAK
Child prodigies in Paris: between science and popular cultureAndrea Graus (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Inês Navalhas (CIUHCT/FCT-UNL)
Communicating Science and Techno-logy. Gradiva's Books of Popularizati-on of Science and Technology and the Portuguese Public
Analysis of the ethos of an associative biohacking laboratory, the Myne at LyonGuillaume Bagnolini (Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier III)
Jelena Stanulovic (University of Belgrade)
Neo-colonial character of digital technologies: Information Imperialism
Tuvaal Klein (Tel Aviv University)
Marie Curie and the "Woman Scien-tist": Construction of Persona through Biographical Representation
PLENARY LECTURE 3
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15
SESSION 5
13:45 - 15:00
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Ahuvia Goren (Ben Gurion University)
'Should a wise man believe in their existence' ? - The Jewish reception of Atomism in 16th 17th century Italy
Mónica López Rivas (Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas del Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
"Development" discourses and material limitations in a context of knowledge transfer between university and Industry. A Mexican case study
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
Humanities through the Lens of Migration: The Case of the Historian Richard Koebner (1885-1958)
Rivkah Feldhay (Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University)
Salle Cassini
[Chair: Breno Moura] [Chair: Hugo Soares]
XXth and XXIth CenturiesPopularization of Science
SESSION 6
17:15 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:15
18:15 - 18:45
Vandermonde and the improvement of the human species: breeding between agricultural practice and natural history in the early French EnlightenmentJens Amborg (EHESS)
Lucia Randone (University of Turin)
The revival of Galen and the problem of anticipating nature
Breno Borges (CIUHCT)
A Re�ection on the Meaning of Concepts of Authenticity and Integrity in contemporary Heritage Conservation
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
16:45 - 17:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 16:45
Sophie N. Kohler (Ben Gurion University)
Bernhard Blechmann, anthropology and the emergence of the notion of a Jewish race 1880-1900 Jack Coopey (University of Durham)
Bachelard and the Science of Objectivity in the Life Sciences
[Chair: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh]
Reclaiming History
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 7
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Understanding the Deranged Mind: Mental Illnesses and Knowledge Transfer in 18th- and Early 19th-Century Hungarian Medical Dissertations
Janka Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)
Polina Merkulova (University of Leeds)
French and German In�uences on Edinburgh Teaching of Scienti�c Medical Psychology
Jinping Ma (University of Warwick)
Personal Psyche, Public Exposure: West Wind Monthly and Psychological Knowledge Dissemination
Therapeutic Occupation and Knowledge Transfer in Communist Hungary in the 1950s and 1960s
Viola Lásló� (Eötvös Loránd University)
Maja Korolija (University of Belgrade)
Structural assumptions of the emergence of the Non-aligned Science
George Bozhchenko (Higher School of Economics)
The First All-Union Television Conference
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
12thThursday
[Chair: Jelena Stanulovic]
Psychology and Mental Illness Cold War - Part I
[Chair: Tuvaal Klein]
PLENARY LECTURE 4
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Plea for an Ecology of Savant Practices: A Brief Theoretical VentureSimon Dumas Primbault (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Martin Vailly (EHESS)
Coronelli’s Terrestrial Globes as Mili-eux of Knowledge, or How to Fix an Ever-Changing World on an Unstable Sphere (1680-1715)
International Geophysical Year as an example of scienti�c data exchange during the Cold War
Irina Fedorova (Higher School of Economics)
Kai Johann Willms (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Knowing the Enemy: Polish Émigré Scholars in American Sovietology after 1945
SESSION 8
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
13:45 - 15:00
12:00 - 12:30
Paul-Arthur Tortosa (European University Institute / EHESS)
From Religion to Science: Turning a Monastery into a Field Hospital (Italy, 1796-1797)
Beatriz Martinez-Rius (Sorbonne Université)
When oil hit geology: Flows of knowledge, expertise and data in the Mediterranean basin research
12:30 - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 - 15:15 BREAK
The co-construction of language and knowledge. Views from China Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS & University Paris Diderot)Salle Cassini
[Chair: Simon Dumas Primbault] [Chair: Viola Lásló�]
From Places to Milieus of Knowledge [Symposium] Cold War - Part II
The problem of re�ection in eighteenth-century projectile opticsBreno Moura (UFABC)
Emma Mojet (Vossius Centre, University of Amsterdam)
Statistical Observations and Methods in Nineteenth-Century Botanical Sciences
Marcus Naldal (Aarhus University)
Circulating Chemical Knowledge in the German Periphery, c.1820-1850
NETWORK MEETING
17:15 - 18:15 ESHS Young Scholars Network Meeting
16:45 - 17:15 COFFEE BREAK
Salle du Conseil Salle Danjon
15:15 - 15:45 The birth of embryological research in IsraelAlessandra Passariello (Ben Gurion University)
SESSION 9
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:45
Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
Retracing McLaren's Search for Graft Hybrids
Nicola Williams (University of Leeds)
The Foundations of Evolutionary Cell Biology
Salle Cassini Matthieu Husson (SYRTE - Paris Observatory)
[Chair: Alexander Stoeger] [Chair: Janka Kovács]
Biology and GeneticsScienti�c Practiceses XVIIIth and XIX Centuries
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