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.
The event will take place in the Library Lab of the Magnel Wing of the Faculty of Philosophy.
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) –
Sesssion 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)
– COFFEE (15.30–16.00) –
Sesssion 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)