Thanks to top-up funding from Global Wales, researchers from Cardiff will come to Ghent for partners at both universities to present and discuss their latest work.
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Programme
Session 1 (9.00–10.30)
Ashley Walsh (Cardiff), Priestcraft and the politics of knowledge in British debates about Catholic relief (20 mins)
Response: Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Jan Machielsen (Cardiff), Supernatural Truth Making: Joseph of Copertino and the Miracle of Flight (20 mins)
Response: Paul Kurtz (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Coffee (10.30–11.00)
Session 2 (11.00–12.30)
Mark Williams (Cardiff), Global Knowledge and the Temporal Turn: The Case of the English East India Company (20 mins)
Response: Akshara Ravishankar (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Valentine Delrue (Ghent), Floral Clocks and Vegetable Barometers: Reading the Atmosphere with Vegetal Tools (1750-1900) (20 mins)
Response: Maarten Van Dyck (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Lunch (12.30–14.00)
Session 3 (14.00–15.30)
Keir Waddington (Cardiff), Victorian water knowledge: science, history, and the imagination (20 mins)
Response: Valentine Delrue (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Samuël Coghe (Ghent), Anthrax, Technopolitics and the Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier in Colonial Madagascar (1895-1960) (20 mins)
Response: Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Session 4 (16.00–17.30)
Marion Löffler (Cardiff), Welsh Vernacular Bridge-Building and Poetry: Enlightenment in a Small Country (20 mins)
Response: Geertje Bol (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
Louise Benson James (Ghent), Gut Health and Female Rejuvenation in Medicine and Popular Fiction 1910s-1920s (20 mins)
Response: Brecht de Groote (Ghent) (5 mins)
Discussion (20 mins)
