Keynote Speakers

Elaine Leong
University College London

Elaine Leong is a Lecturer in History at University College London. Her research investigates on the production, transfer and maintenance of everyday knowledge in early modern Europe with a focus on gender issues and matters of health and the body. She is the author of Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science and the Household in Early Modern England (2018) and co-editor of a number of essay collections and journal special issues, most recently Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge (2019),”Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science” (BJHS Themes, 2020) and Translating Medicine Across Premodern Worlds (2022). 

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Henrique Leitão
University of Lisbon

Henrique Leitão is a historian of science. He is Senior Researcher at the Interuniversity Center for History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and teaches at the Master and Doctoral Programs in the History and Philosophy of Science, at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon. His work is mostly focused on early modern european science, mainly astronomy, cosmography, cartography and navigation. He led the team that edited the complete works of sixteenth century Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunes, and has published extensively on related topics. Together with J. M. Moreno Madrid he is currently finishing a book on the science and the political debates around longitude in the 16th century. He is the Principal Investigator of Project RUTTER, a five-year Project funded by the European Research Council to study early modern sailing directions (rutters), ship’s logbooks and the emergence of a global picture of the Earth (ERC AdG 833438). Since 2022 he is Provost (Pro-rector) of the University of Lisbon.

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Johan Östling
Lund University

Johan Östling is Professor of History, Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University. His research is mainly devoted to the history of knowledge, but he has a general interest in the intellectual, political and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe. Since the mid-2010s, he has in close co-operation with colleagues developed the history of knowledge as a scholarly field in various ways, not least by publishing the trilogy Circulation of Knowledge (2018), Forms of Knowledge and Knowledge Actors (forthcoming 2023). Östling is a co-founder and one of the editors-in-chief of the international yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter), which is devoted to the history of knowledge. In 2024, he will launch a research project on the Europeanisation of universities since the 1980s.

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Lisa Hellman
Lund University

Lisa Hellman is leader for the research group “Coerced Circulation of Knowledge” at University of Bonn, and a Pro Futura fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. She is currently directing NordGlob, a network for global history in the Nordic countries. With a PhD from Stockholm University, she has formerly worked at Freie Universität Berlin, Uppsala University, and University of Tokyo, where she wrote the book “This house is not a home: European everyday life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830” (Brill: 2018). She works in the intersection between social, cultural, maritime and global history in East and Central Asia, with a special focus on gender. 

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Simone Lässig
German Historical Institute - Whashington DC

Simone Lässig is director of the German Historical Institute Washington DC and Professor of Modern History at Braunschweig University (on leave). She has been a visiting professor at St Antony’s College, Oxford (2009/10) and a Remarque Fellowship at New York University (2022). For her second book on the embourgeoisement of German Jewry she was awarded the 2004 German Historical Association’s biennial prize. Her main fields of research are modern Jewish history, the history of knowledge and migration, digital history, and biography as a historical genre. Currently she is working on a study of a transnational German-Jewish banking family that focuses on gender and kinship from the early nineteenth century to the present, and a study on religion as an agent of change in German speaking Central Europe, 1800-1860. 

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Sven Dupré
Utrecht University

Sven Dupré is Director of the Research Institute for History and Art History of History of Art, and Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University (History & Art History) and the University of Amsterdam (Conservation & Restoration). He was the PI of the ARTECHNE project ‘Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950’, supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (2015-2021). Since 2018 he also heads the NWO Smart Culture Art DATIS project on the history of glass focusing on the archives of the artist Sybren Valkema (1916-1996), in collaboration with the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Corning Museum of Glass and the Glasmuseum Hentrich, Dusseldorf.

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