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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1 - Salle Cassini (First Floor)2 - Salle du Conseil (Ground Floor)3 - Salle Danjon (Ground Floor)

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