2025 Early Career Meeting. Programme

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester 

9th of September 2025

Venue: Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building

14:30 Welcome

15:00–16:45 Panel 1: Materiality and History of Science: Books, Instruments and Places

  1. Michele Corti, University of Siena – Museo Galileo – Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, An Hero’s Pneumatica first study: analysing the reception of the book and the realisation of the devices in the ancient world
  2. Sena Aydın, Istanbul Medeniyet University Institute for the History of Science, The Use of the Second Fundamental Law of Reflection in Optical Texts Written in the Ottoman Period
  3. Nicolas Joannes, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Sorbonne University Paris, Production and circulation of mathematical illustrations in Sébastien Le Clerc’s Traité de Géométrie from 1690 to 1835
  4. Arilès Remaki, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, The General and the Particular: Leibniz’s 1679 Study of Transcendental Curves and Its Historiographical Implications
  5. Petra Hyklová, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, The efforts to build a new observatory outside Prague at the turn of the 19th century

Coffee break

17:15–19:00 Panel 2: Medicine and Psychology

  1. Claire Turner, Society for Renaissance Studies – University of Leeds, Unnatural Mothers: Breastfeeding and Breast Cancer c.1650-1900
  2. Elena Badanai, University of Pisa, Popular Science and the Birth of Hygiene Education in Unified Italy
  3. Catriel Fierro, History of Science Institute (iHC) – Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sampling Practices, Case Recording, and the Dream of Reliability: The Consultative Clinical Professions’ Struggle with the Experimental Ideal, 1920s–1930s
  4. Krittapak Ngamvaseeont, University of Manchester, Mental Health for Developing Countries: Thai Psychiatry on the Global Stage (1930s-1970s)
  5. Giacomo Simoncelli, La Sapienza Roma, From 1957 to 2007: the ecology of influenza from surveys in animals to viral sovereignty

10th of September

Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Ground Floor, Simon Building

9:00–10:45 Panel 3: Scientific Controversies and Debates

  1. Lorenzo De Piccoli, University of Pisa, So that they may see clearly, that which today we see confusedly. Extraterrestrial debates in 18th century Italy
  2. Léonie Ringuedé, Université Paris-Saclay, Electricity through Material Interfaces (1830-1880): Multidisciplinary Responses in a Scientific Controversy
  3. Thomas Berthod, SPHERE-Université Paris Cité, The practices of classification in mathematics: practices which are usual and marked by ontological issues. The example of René Baire’s classification of functions.
  4. Elife Çetintaş, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, A Bibliometric Study of the Term ‘Structure’ in Mathematical Review Journals from 1889 to the 1960s
  5. Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, University of Leeds, ‘The first monkey was a sort of jelly’: Julian Huxley, the Cell Theory, and Evolution beyond Classical Neo-Darwinism, 1906-1942

Coffee Break

11:15–13:15 Panel 4: Politics, Networks and Science Diplomacy

  1. Petra Stankovic, University of Oxford, The Participation of Russian and Soviet Mathematicians in the International Congresses of Mathematicians
  2. Maja Korolija, University of Belgrade, Yugoslav Marxism and the Philosophy of Science in the Interwar Period: The Case of Sima Marković
  3. Sotiris Mikros, University of Manchester, Endangered species data in the 1950s. Preservation of asymmetries as the foundation of key conservation tools.
  4. Luca Forgiarini, Freudenthal Institute in Utrecht, Accelerating Europe: CERN and the integration of European high-energy physics in the 1960s and 1970s
  5. Henrique Oliveira, NOVA University of Lisbon, The remaking of seismic politics? On cost in the history of Earthquake Engineering
  6. Alice Naisbitt, University of Manchester, European Science, British Soft Power: The British Council and the Shifting Terrain of Science Diplomacy, 1960s–2020s

Lunch (Venue: Room 3.44A, Third Floor, Simon Building)

Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Ground Floor, Simon Building

14:30–15:40 Panel 5: Situated Knowledge: Empire and Gender

  1. Jason Irving, University of Kent, Medical Hierarchy, Materia Medica and Bioprospecting in Early English Jamaica, 1660-1725
  2. Noelia Villena-Rodríguez, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Perception, recognition and exploitation of resources in the Mariana Islands (16th-17th century)
  3. Federica Bonacini, Roma Tre University, Women and Botany in Twentieth-Century Italy: Spaces, Institutions and Roles

Coffee Break

16:00–17:00 Roundtable with the members of the ESHS board: publishing opportunities, fellowships and more

17:15–18:30 Keynote by Robert Fox, University of Oxford, Behind the appearances. The conceits and realities of universal science