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May 11
11-05-2023: Dmitri Levitin - A New Discovery: Isaac Newton as Artisan, Theologian, and Roommate
Library Lab Magnel
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Dmitri Levitin
May 4
4-05-2023: Marius Buning - Controlling information flows: Printing privileges in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
Library Lab Magnel
Seminar
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Marius Buning
Apr 27
27-04-2023: Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen - Keeping Flowers Between the Pages: “Preserving” Rare and Curious Flowers through Florilegium Images in the Seventeenth Century
Library Lab Magnel
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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Utrecht University)
Dec 15
15-12-2022: Willemijn Ruberg - Modern forensic cultures in Europe: Researching culture, ideology, and medico-legal expertise in practice
Library Lab Magnel
Seminar
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Willemijn Ruberg
Dec 8
8-12-2022: Anne Por - The cameral sciences through the eyes of students: how knowledge structures and representation impact discipline formation
Library Lab Loveling
Seminar
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Anne Por
Nov 24
24-11-2022: Cecilia Muratori - The Pea and the Wave: Philosophical Physiognomics in Early Modernity
Library Lab Magnel
Seminar
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Cecilia Muratori
Nov 10
10-11-2022: Tullio Viola - Folkloric transmission and social critique. From Europe to Chicago and back
Library Lab Magnel
Seminar
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Tullio Viola
Oct 28
28-10-2022: Sarton Chair Research Seminar: Geert Vanpaemel - Vernacular Science: Exploring the Other Side of History
Faculteitszaal Blandijnberg 2 Ghent
Seminar
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Geert Vanpaemel
Oct 13
13-10-2022: Koen Vermeir - Humanist Self-Care; or, did Foucault overlook a dominant culture of the self?
Library Lab Loveling
Seminar
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Koen Vermeir
Sep 22
22-09-2022: Belvedere Lecture: Sven Dupré - The Art and Nature of Glass – A Material in the Early Modern History of Knowledge
Campus Boekentoren
Seminar
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Sven Dupré
Mar 17
17-03-2022: Questioning the politics-free ideal of science
Faculteitszaal Blandijnberg 2 Ghent / Online
Seminar
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Hugh Desmond (IHPST (CNRS/Paris I) and University of Antwerp)
Feb 17
17-02-2022: Historians between Academy and State: the case of European policy-oriented historical research
Faculteitszaal Blandijnberg 2 Ghent / Online
Seminar
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Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent University)
Feb 16
16-02-2022: BOOK EVENT: Hans Radder - From Commodification to the Common Good
FORUM room - Gents Universiteitsmuseum (GUM) / Online
Seminar
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Hans Radder
Federica Russo
Sigrid Sterckx
Koen Vermeir
Jun 24
24-06-2021: Agudeza, The Axe's Edge: Early Modern Poetry and International Politics
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Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Mar 25
25-03-2021: What’s the matter with space?
Seminar
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Henny Blomme (KU Leuven)
Feb 11
11-02-2021: Causal Determinism in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
Seminar
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Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder)
Jan 28
28-01-2021: Climates Fetishized: Ideologies of Climatological Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester)
Oct 29
29-10-2020: POSTPONED: English engineer John Smeaton’s experimental method: Optimisation, hypothesis-testing and practical maxims in the early Industrial Revolution.
Seminar
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Andrew Morris (VUB)
May 28
28-05-2020: 'A different climate has given to shape to a novel species': Early modern climate theories and the debate on anthropogenic climate change
Online - Please contact <jonathan.regier@ugent.be> to join
Seminar
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Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)
Mar 19
19-03-2020: Joint Seminar with UGent Group for Early Modern Studies
Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22
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Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere (UGent)