PG and ECR Workshop - Creative Cities: Knowledge of Nature and Networks of Science

26 June – Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford

09:00–09:30 Arrival and Welcome (Erica Charters) 

09:30–11:00 Session 1: Health, State and Empire (Chair: Erica Charters)

Against Exclusivism: The Rats of William C. Hossack 1898–1913, Utsa Bose (Oxford)

The Birth of “State Medicine” in the Habsburg Monarchy from the Late 18th to the Early 19th Century, Tereza Liepoldová (Charles)

Eradicating Yaws: Intra- and Inter-Imperial Networks of Knowing, Philippa Monk (Oxford)

11:00–11:30 Break (Coffee/Tea)                                                                                                  

11:30–13:00 Session 2: Transit, Transmission, Translation (Chair: Alex Aylward)       

Abel-Victor Brandin (1778–1850): French Military Doctor and Medical Entrepreneur in Latin America during the Age of Revolutions, Benjamin Rymer (Oxford)

Aristotle, De Animalibus and the Bohemian Lands: A Case Study on the Transmission of Zoological Knowledge, Zuzana Vařáková (Charles)

"Is there not somebody who knows somebody who knows something of Japanese?": Networking Child Study across National and Linguistic Boundaries c. 1894–1907, Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)

13:00–14:00 Lunch                                                                                                                     

14:00–15:30 Session 3: Natures (Chair: Madeline White)

Tracing the Stereotypes: The Shifting Image of Lamarckian Natural Philosophy, Jana Švorcová (Charles)

Wind, Power, and Dragons: Renewable Energy and the Reconstruction of the Coast in the Faroe Islands, Róisín Kennelly (Oxford)

"Metaempirical" and "φύσις-like": the Naturphilosophie Position of Count Buquoy (1781–1851), Lenka Ovčáčková (Charles)

15:30–15:45 Break (Coffee/Tea)                                                                                                  

15:45–17:15 Session 4: Natural Philosophies (Chair: Rob Iliffe)

Mirror, Model, Muse: Identity and Influence in the Institutional Correspondence of the Oxford, Dublin, and Royal Societies, Constance Hardesty (Oxford)

Discovering Newton: Iohannes Tessanek and Higher Mathematics in 18th Century Prague, Babeta Jurámiková (Charles)

Vojtěch Hladký (Charles) introduces his new book, On the Gods and the World: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni Papyrus (OUP, 2024)                     

17:15–17:30 Closing Remarks (Jacques Joseph, Alex Aylward)