Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science

Friday, October 19

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Introduction
Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Session Chair
Mary Terrall, UCLA

Nicholas Dew, McGill University
Circulating Measurement in the Early Enlightenment World

Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
Nation, Ocean, and Atmosphere: British Knowledge of Climate in the Eighteenth Century

12:30 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session Chair
Pamela Smith, Columbia University

Martha Few, University of Arizona
Circulating Smallpox Knowledges: José Flores, Maya Indians, and Designing the “Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna,” 1780-1806

Mary Terrall, UCLA
Following Insects Around: Tools and Techniques of Natural History in Reaumur’s World

Jakob Vogel, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Locality and Circulation in the Habsburg Empire: The Disputes around the Medical Salt of Karlsbad, 1763-1784

5:00 P.M.

Saturday, October 20

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session Chair
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Putting Circulation in Order: Court Culture in 18th-century Calcutta

Catarina Madeira Santos, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Administrative Knowledges in a Colonial Context (Eighteenth-Century Angola)

Jane H. Murphy, Colorado College
Locating the Sciences in Eighteenth-Century Egypt

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session Chair
Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Avner Ben-Zaken, Harvard Society of Fellows
Objects in Motion: Science, Networks and Trust across the Mediterranean

Carla Nappi, Montana State University
Recipe: Forms of Circulation and Scents of Place in Chinese-Arabic Medical Exchange

4:00 P.M.

Final Commentary and Discussion
Moderator: Theodore Porter, UCLA