Please join us for a "Meet the PhD jury" seminar on 2 July, which should be of interest to scholars working on history of science, environmental history, and intellectual history.
Two senior historians and two junior scholars will discuss their current research on discourses and disciplines of meteorological phenomena (winds, air, comets) from antiquity to the nineteenth century CE.
Program
- Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), “Winds and the Humanities” (9:15-10 am)
- Angelo Gargiulo (Ghent University), “Weather lore in Early Byzantium: 'parapegmatic' material in John Lydos” (10:05-10:40 am)
- Matteo Cosci (Università Ca’Foscari, Venice), "From astrological signs to orbital loops: post-Halleyan cometary theories in Italy" (10:50-11:35)
- Valentine Delrue (Ghent University), “Seeds as soothsayers? Phenological observations in North America, 1770-1870” (11:40-12:15)
Registration
Before Wednesday 26 June by sending a message to steven.vandenbroecke@ugent.be