Workshop « Crossing the Channel: Early modern and Modern historiographies of science and technology »

A joint PhD workshop LARHRA – University of Cambridge

Organised by Leonardo Ariel Carrio Cataldi and Daniel Margocsy

9:00 : Introduction, Leonardo A. Carrio Cataldi and Daniel Margocsy

9:15 : Early Modern Medicine: Actors, Sources and Institutions
– Sheryl Wombell (Cambridge), Theodore Turquet de Mayerne’s epistolary medical practice
– Chloë Cuberli (LARHRA), The Records of Medical Colleges: Corporate Life and the Making of a Learned Society

10:30 : Coffee break

10:50 : Modern Scientific and Technical Control of Plagues
– Mika Hyman (Cambridge) Curing Cocoa: Plant Pathogens and the Making of Agricultural Research Institutions in Twentieth-Century Trinidad
– Lua Pillier-Grandelli (LARHRA), Mosquito Control in the Languedoc Coast: The Scientific Production of the Entente Interdépartementale de Démoustication

12:05 : Lunch break

13:00 : Knowledge, savoir-faire and beliefs in the Americas and France
– D ‘Johensby Simeon (LARHRA): From « Superstition » to « Belief »: The Process of Semantic Reframe and Legitimization of Spiritualities in the French Antilles (16th-17th centuries)
– Xinyi Zhao (LARHRA, East China Normal University) The Vaporous Body: Naming and Sensing Malaise in Eighteenth-Century French Medicine
– Nienke Groskamp (Cambridge) Christian Science Obstetrics and Techniques for Alleviating Childbirth Pain in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States

14:45 : final discussion

15:15 : Visit to the Musée des Confluences (optional)