Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
8:30 9:30 Welcome Coffee + Registration
9:30 9:45 Opening session
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:50-10:50h
“The history of the history of knowledge: The emergence of a new field”.
Johan Östling
Lund University, Sweden
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Amélia Polónia
University of Porto, Portugal
“Thinking with hands’: the structures of artisanal knowledge”.
Antonio Sánchez Martinez
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
“An Informal Knowledge Society for a Formal Power: Don John Joseph of Austria’s 1651 Literary Academy and his patronage of intellectuals”.
Frank Ejby Poulsen
King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
“Edmund Rack: Master of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Bath”.
Susan Whyman
Independent Historian, formerly Princeton University, USA
“Knowledge Trickles Upwards”
Leonie Hannan
Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
“Entangled Imaginations: The Boxer Codex, Colonial Futures, and CrossCultural Knowledge in the Late-Sixteenth-Century Western Pacific Rim”.
Zhiyu Chen
University of Cambridge, UK
“In the colonial terrain everything is mixed: Mamluks, Amerindians and migrants in the development of hydrography (18th century)”.
Denise Moura
São Paulo State University, Brazil
“The Global in the Local: Transnational Knowledge Circulation in Clerical Book Collections in Denmark, 1685–1810”.
Jonas Thorup Thomsen
Lund University, Sweden
“Foreign Therapies from Mercury: Examining Eastern Entries in Théophile Bonet’s Medical Guidebook”.
Ni Xia
Central European University Viena, Austria
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 2
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Erinn Campbell
University of Cambridge, UK
“Privacy in French Utopian Literature during the Enlightenment: A Distant-Reading Approach to the Heuristic Zones of Privacy”.
Liam Benison
University of Verona, Italy
Luciano Moreira
University of Porto, Portugal
“New perspectives on the History of University”.
Maria Simonsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
“Probing the Impact of Technology in Historical Research: The Role of Transnational Networks”.
Gerben Zaagsma
University of Luxembourg
“Organising Knowledge of “New Music” in Interwar Europe: Circulating the Writings of Lotte Kallenbach-Greller”.
Johan Larson Lindal
Linköping University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Enrico Veneziani
University of Porto, Portugal
“Circulating Medical Knowledge amid Uncertainties and Localities – Physicians’ Epistemic Authority at the Early Eighteenth-Century Collegium Medicum in Sweden”.
Katariina Lehto
Tampere University, Finland
“Turning Muscovite: “unnatural” from anti-Muslim to anti-Russian rhetoric in the early modern”.
Hanna Filipova
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
“Portuguese colonial sociology: a peripheral dictatorship at the center of trans-imperial scientific cooperation in the social sciences in the post-Second World War period”.
Frederico Ágoas
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
“Constructing and circulating knowledge of ‘fascist internationalism’ among minor Northwestern European fascist parties in the 1930s”.
Martin Kristoffer Hamre
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
“The Construction and Limits of Public Geographical Knowledge of the “Southland” in the Seventeenth Century”.
Liam Benison
University of Verona, Italy
“Indigenous knowledge and changing conceptions of natural history in Early Modern Europe”.
Peter R. Anstey
University of Sydney, Australia
“Deborah Romm: Innovative Publisher, Information Distributer and Cultural Agent”.
Mordechai Zalkin
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
“Xavier Botelho as an agent of knowledge of the Portuguese colonial territories of East Africa – the critic criticized (1835-1837)”.
Conceição Meireles Pereira
University of Porto, Portugal
Isilda Santos Monteiro
Higher School of Education of Paula Frassinetti, Portugal
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“Has history of knowledge become too nice? Fractures and inequality when applying a global history perspective”.
Lisa Hellman
Lund University, Sweden
18:30h – Rectory of the University of Porto
“Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge”
Nordic Academic Press
edited by Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar.
Discussant: Fabiano Bracht, University of Porto
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:00 9:30 Morning Coffee
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:30-10:30h
“Environmental Expertise, Practical Knowledge, and the Conservation of Art and Nature”.
Sven Dupré
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Juan Acevedo
University of Lisbon
“Brave New Worlds: Travel literature and Europe’s thirst for knowledge about Africa (15th-16th centuries)”.
Fernando Mouta
University of Porto, Portugal
“Latin American Mines and the Transformation of Alchemical Secrets in Early Modern Knowledge Networks”.
Natacha Klein Käfer
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“Taiwan Studies in Early Modern Europe: from the Dutch’s Retreat to Taiwan’s Reopening to the World”.
Hung-yi Chien
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
“Displays of difference and similarity: The parasol as venue for (im-)material ethnographic knowledge production between Japan and Europe around 1600”.
Friederike Philippe
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Katariina Lehto
Tampere University, Finland
“Hindoos, or Heathens”: British Colonialist Constructions of Knowledge about the Indian Subcontinent in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”.
Angana Moitra
O. P. Jindal Global University, India
“Informal Enlightenment: Early Modern self-organised networks of knowledge”.
Gisele C. Conceição
University of Porto, Portugal
“The European Penny Magazines: Popular Knowledge forming National Identities in the 1830s”.
Elias Mahiout
University of Cologne, Germany
“A botanist and his translator. William Jackson Hooker as a translator of Eduard Friedrich Poeppig’s Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome (1835)”.
Claudio Soltmann
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Marga Vicedo
University of Toronto, Canada
“The Överhogdal case: The circulation of knowledge – Museum Collections in flux”.
Kerstin Lind
Linköping University, Sweden
“The circulation of the schizophrenia category by psychiatry in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, 1910-1939)”.
Ana Teresa A. Venancio
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
Renilson Beraldo
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
“‘Frank and honest’? The politics of international plant pest reporting, 1952–1994”.
Erinn Campbell
University of Cambridge, UK
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Fernando Mouta
University of Porto, Portugal
“Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers in Eighteenth-Century London”.
Alice Marples
The British Library, UK
“The Use of Plants and Botanical Knowledge in Rio de Janeiro (1700-1850): The Case of the Tapinhoã Tree”.
Lorelai Kury
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
“Competing Claims to Knowledge across the Oceans – Early 19th-century New Zealand as an object of European knowing”.
Mikko Myllyntausta
University of Turku, Finland
“Experiential knowledge in society: A theoretical-methodological approach”.
Heikki Kokko
Tampere University, Finland
Minna Harjula
Tampere University, Finland
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis and its Afterlives: Histories of Knowledge Maintenance in Early Modern Britain”
Elaine Leong
University College London, UK
18:30h – 19h30 – Galeria da Biodiversidade
Soirée Knowledge and Culture
Fado musical moment at the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP)
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:00 9:30 Morning Coffee
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:30-10:30h
“Global lines, mathematical cosmography and the emergence of a global Earth”.
Henrique Leitão
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Francesco Renzi
Catholic University of Portugal
“Discreet Astronomical Travellers: Solar Declination Tables in Indian Ocean Nautical Texts”.
Juan Acevedo
University of Lisbon, Portugal
“Colonization and Historical Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century Malabar”.
Renu Elizabeth Abraham
O. P. Jindal Global University, India
“Swedish transits – Protestant missionary travellers to Asia 1900–1930”.
Malin Gregersen
Linnaeus University, Sweden
“Cross-Continental Knowledge Exchange: Non-Specialised Agents, Natural History Artefacts, and Epistemic Networks in 18th Century Asia-Europe Trade”.
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Tetiana Zemliakova
European University Institute Florence, Italy
“The Republic of Characters: Unraveling the Global Technical Challenge and Dutch Endeavors in Manufacturing Chinese Typefaces”.
Yun Xie
Scaliger Institute, Netherlands
“The many afterlives of Gabriel de Tarde Translation and reception in the United States c.1895-1905”
Valentina Mann
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel
“Lost in Translation: Nonhuman Gender in Modern English Translations of Latin Texts”.
Polina Ignatova
Linköping University, Sweden
“We suffered and can understand and orient the material.” Survivors of Nazi Persecution as Carriers and Cultural Translators of Knowledge in an effort to Document Nazi Persecution, 1945- 1946”.
Victoria Van Orden Martínez
Linköping University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Monique Palma
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
“Planting Relations: Portuguese and the Circulation of Medicinal Knowledge in Early Modern Kerala”
Ayana Antony
Maharaja’s College, India
“Inventing politics as a research object: infrastructural innovations at Columbia and Hopkins graduate schools of political science (1878–1901)”.
Tetiana Zemliakova
European University Institute Florence, Italy
“Physical Chemistry in Argentina and beyond: On an Exchange Relationship between Germany and Argentina after the Second World War”.
Jason Lemberg
University of Wuppertal, Germany
“Bidirectional Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer. East and Central European Literary Scholars in the United States”.
Adam Kola
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Mark Solovey
University of Toronto, Canada
“Popularizing Science and Technology at the Fairground in 19th century Belgium”.
Tim Overkempe
University of Antwerp, Belgium
“Public knowledge transmission in the Netherlands: the cultural phenomenon of the lantern lecture”.
Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves
Utrecht University, Netherlands
“Defending ‘realistic’ knowledge: The many arenas of Dutch mathematics education 1970-2010”.
Elske de Wall
Utrecht University, Netherlands
“Ung Företagsamhet, entrepreneurial knowledge and the knowledgeisation of social problems”.
Evelina Kallträsk
Lund University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“Knowledge Born in Global Transit? Revisiting Migrants’ Histories”.
Simone Lässig
German Historical Institute – Washington DC, USA
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
8:30 9:30 Welcome Coffee + Registration
9:30 9:45 Opening session
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:50-10:50h
“The history of the history of knowledge: The emergence of a new field”.
Johan Östling
Lund University, Sweden
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Amélia Polónia
University of Porto, Portugal
“Thinking with hands’: the structures of artisanal knowledge”.
Antonio Sánchez Martinez
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
“An Informal Knowledge Society for a Formal Power: Don John Joseph of Austria’s 1651 Literary Academy and his patronage of intellectuals”.
Frank Ejby Poulsen
King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
“Edmund Rack: Master of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Bath”.
Susan Whyman
Independent Historian, formerly Princeton University, USA
“Knowledge Trickles Upwards”
Leonie Hannan
Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
“Entangled Imaginations: The Boxer Codex, Colonial Futures, and CrossCultural Knowledge in the Late-Sixteenth-Century Western Pacific Rim”.
Zhiyu Chen
University of Cambridge, UK
“In the colonial terrain everything is mixed: Mamluks, Amerindians and migrants in the development of hydrography (18th century)”.
Denise Moura
São Paulo State University, Brazil
“The Global in the Local: Transnational Knowledge Circulation in Clerical Book Collections in Denmark, 1685–1810”.
Jonas Thorup Thomsen
Lund University, Sweden
“Foreign Therapies from Mercury: Examining Eastern Entries in Théophile Bonet’s Medical Guidebook”.
Ni Xia
Central European University Viena, Austria
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 2
11:00 – 12:30h
Chair
Erinn Campbell
University of Cambridge, UK
“Privacy in French Utopian Literature during the Enlightenment: A Distant-Reading Approach to the Heuristic Zones of Privacy”.
Liam Benison
University of Verona, Italy
Luciano Moreira
University of Porto, Portugal
“New perspectives on the History of University”.
Maria Simonsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
“Probing the Impact of Technology in Historical Research: The Role of Transnational Networks”.
Gerben Zaagsma
University of Luxembourg
“Organising Knowledge of “New Music” in Interwar Europe: Circulating the Writings of Lotte Kallenbach-Greller”.
Johan Larson Lindal
Linköping University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Enrico Veneziani
University of Porto, Portugal
“Circulating Medical Knowledge amid Uncertainties and Localities – Physicians’ Epistemic Authority at the Early Eighteenth-Century Collegium Medicum in Sweden”.
Katariina Lehto
Tampere University, Finland
“Turning Muscovite: “unnatural” from anti-Muslim to anti-Russian rhetoric in the early modern”.
Hanna Filipova
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
“Portuguese colonial sociology: a peripheral dictatorship at the center of trans-imperial scientific cooperation in the social sciences in the post-Second World War period”.
Frederico Ágoas
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
“Constructing and circulating knowledge of ‘fascist internationalism’ among minor Northwestern European fascist parties in the 1930s”.
Martin Kristoffer Hamre
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
“The Construction and Limits of Public Geographical Knowledge of the “Southland” in the Seventeenth Century”.
Liam Benison
University of Verona, Italy
“Indigenous knowledge and changing conceptions of natural history in Early Modern Europe”.
Peter R. Anstey
University of Sydney, Australia
“Deborah Romm: Innovative Publisher, Information Distributer and Cultural Agent”.
Mordechai Zalkin
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
“Xavier Botelho as an agent of knowledge of the Portuguese colonial territories of East Africa – the critic criticized (1835-1837)”.
Conceição Meireles Pereira
University of Porto, Portugal
Isilda Santos Monteiro
Higher School of Education of Paula Frassinetti, Portugal
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“Has history of knowledge become too nice? Fractures and inequality when applying a global history perspective”.
Lisa Hellman
Lund University, Sweden
18:30h – Rectory of the University of Porto
“Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge”
Nordic Academic Press
edited by Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar.
Discussant: Fabiano Bracht, University of Porto
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:00 9:30 Morning Coffee
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:30-10:30h
“Environmental Expertise, Practical Knowledge, and the Conservation of Art and Nature”.
Sven Dupré
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Juan Acevedo
University of Lisbon
“Brave New Worlds: Travel literature and Europe’s thirst for knowledge about Africa (15th-16th centuries)”.
Fernando Mouta
University of Porto, Portugal
“Latin American Mines and the Transformation of Alchemical Secrets in Early Modern Knowledge Networks”.
Natacha Klein Käfer
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“Taiwan Studies in Early Modern Europe: from the Dutch’s Retreat to Taiwan’s Reopening to the World”.
Hung-yi Chien
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
“Displays of difference and similarity: The parasol as venue for (im-)material ethnographic knowledge production between Japan and Europe around 1600”.
Friederike Philippe
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Katariina Lehto
Tampere University, Finland
“Hindoos, or Heathens”: British Colonialist Constructions of Knowledge about the Indian Subcontinent in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”.
Angana Moitra
O. P. Jindal Global University, India
“Informal Enlightenment: Early Modern self-organised networks of knowledge”.
Gisele C. Conceição
University of Porto, Portugal
“The European Penny Magazines: Popular Knowledge forming National Identities in the 1830s”.
Elias Mahiout
University of Cologne, Germany
“A botanist and his translator. William Jackson Hooker as a translator of Eduard Friedrich Poeppig’s Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome (1835)”.
Claudio Soltmann
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Marga Vicedo
University of Toronto, Canada
“The Överhogdal case: The circulation of knowledge – Museum Collections in flux”.
Kerstin Lind
Linköping University, Sweden
“The circulation of the schizophrenia category by psychiatry in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, 1910-1939)”.
Ana Teresa A. Venancio
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
Renilson Beraldo
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
“‘Frank and honest’? The politics of international plant pest reporting, 1952–1994”.
Erinn Campbell
University of Cambridge, UK
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Fernando Mouta
University of Porto, Portugal
“Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers in Eighteenth-Century London”.
Alice Marples
The British Library, UK
“The Use of Plants and Botanical Knowledge in Rio de Janeiro (1700-1850): The Case of the Tapinhoã Tree”.
Lorelai Kury
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
“Competing Claims to Knowledge across the Oceans – Early 19th-century New Zealand as an object of European knowing”.
Mikko Myllyntausta
University of Turku, Finland
“Experiential knowledge in society: A theoretical-methodological approach”.
Heikki Kokko
Tampere University, Finland
Minna Harjula
Tampere University, Finland
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis and its Afterlives: Histories of Knowledge Maintenance in Early Modern Britain”
Elaine Leong
University College London, UK
18:30h – 19h30 – Galeria da Biodiversidade
Soirée Knowledge and Culture
Fado musical moment at the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP)
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:00 9:30 Morning Coffee
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
9:30-10:30h
“Global lines, mathematical cosmography and the emergence of a global Earth”.
Henrique Leitão
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Francesco Renzi
Catholic University of Portugal
“Discreet Astronomical Travellers: Solar Declination Tables in Indian Ocean Nautical Texts”.
Juan Acevedo
University of Lisbon, Portugal
“Colonization and Historical Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century Malabar”.
Renu Elizabeth Abraham
O. P. Jindal Global University, India
“Swedish transits – Protestant missionary travellers to Asia 1900–1930”.
Malin Gregersen
Linnaeus University, Sweden
“Cross-Continental Knowledge Exchange: Non-Specialised Agents, Natural History Artefacts, and Epistemic Networks in 18th Century Asia-Europe Trade”.
Fabiano Bracht
University of Porto, Portugal
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
10:45-12:15h
Chair
Tetiana Zemliakova
European University Institute Florence, Italy
“The Republic of Characters: Unraveling the Global Technical Challenge and Dutch Endeavors in Manufacturing Chinese Typefaces”.
Yun Xie
Scaliger Institute, Netherlands
“The many afterlives of Gabriel de Tarde Translation and reception in the United States c.1895-1905”
Valentina Mann
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel
“Lost in Translation: Nonhuman Gender in Modern English Translations of Latin Texts”.
Polina Ignatova
Linköping University, Sweden
“We suffered and can understand and orient the material.” Survivors of Nazi Persecution as Carriers and Cultural Translators of Knowledge in an effort to Document Nazi Persecution, 1945- 1946”.
Victoria Van Orden Martínez
Linköping University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Monique Palma
NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
“Planting Relations: Portuguese and the Circulation of Medicinal Knowledge in Early Modern Kerala”
Ayana Antony
Maharaja’s College, India
“Inventing politics as a research object: infrastructural innovations at Columbia and Hopkins graduate schools of political science (1878–1901)”.
Tetiana Zemliakova
European University Institute Florence, Italy
“Physical Chemistry in Argentina and beyond: On an Exchange Relationship between Germany and Argentina after the Second World War”.
Jason Lemberg
University of Wuppertal, Germany
“Bidirectional Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer. East and Central European Literary Scholars in the United States”.
Adam Kola
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Debate
Room – Meetings Room 1
14:00-15:30h
Chair
Mark Solovey
University of Toronto, Canada
“Popularizing Science and Technology at the Fairground in 19th century Belgium”.
Tim Overkempe
University of Antwerp, Belgium
“Public knowledge transmission in the Netherlands: the cultural phenomenon of the lantern lecture”.
Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves
Utrecht University, Netherlands
“Defending ‘realistic’ knowledge: The many arenas of Dutch mathematics education 1970-2010”.
Elske de Wall
Utrecht University, Netherlands
“Ung Företagsamhet, entrepreneurial knowledge and the knowledgeisation of social problems”.
Evelina Kallträsk
Lund University, Sweden
Debate
Room – Anfiteatro Nobre
16:00-17:00h
“Knowledge Born in Global Transit? Revisiting Migrants’ Histories”.
Simone Lässig
German Historical Institute – Washington DC, USA