From 9:30. Registration.
9:45–10:30. Visit to the Special Collections at the Glucksman Library.
10:30. Welcome coffee.
11:00-12:30. PANEL 1. Sites and Circulation of Early Modern Knowledge.
Chair. José M. Moreno (University of Limerick).
– Ciara Sheehan (University of Limerick): ‘Disciplining Knowledge: Student Deviance and the University as Knowledge Infrastructure in German Universities’.
– Wouter Kreuze (University of Limerick): ‘Controlling Contents and Dissemination of Manuscript Newsletters in Early Modern Europe’.
– Inês Bénard (University of Lisbon): ‘Communication in Practice: Iberian and Indian Ocean Stellar Altitude Measurements in Comparison’.
12:30–13:45. Brownbag Lunch.
13:45-15:15. PANEL 2. Medical Practices and Botanical Knowledge.
Chair. Diarmid Finnegan (Queen’s University Belfast).
– Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University): ‘Changing of the guard The emergence of a new generation of doctors in Catholic hospitals in Dublin at the start of the 20th century’.
– Ciara Henderson (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Archiving Mortality: Finding the Limits of Historical Death Registration’.
– Guang Yang (University College Cork): ‘Phyto-Vision: Visualising Botanical Knowledge Across Global Epistemologies’.
15:15–15:30. Biobreak.
15.30-17:00: PANEL 3. Irish Astronomy and the Negotiation of Power.
Chair. Elena Schaa (University of Basel / National Hellenic Research Foundation).
– Matthew McMahon (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Between Empire, All Ireland and America: The Supernationalism of the Armagh Planetarium’.
– Erin Manson (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Decolonising Astronomical Science: The Geopolitically Networked Heritage of Irish Astronomy at Boyden Observatory, South Africa, 1950-1978’.
– Diarmid Finnegan (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘This panorama of billions of worlds’: sublime science and polemical astronomy in the age of repeal’.
17:00–17:30. Coffee break.
17:30–18:30. KEYNOTE LECTURE. Juliana Adelman (Dublin City University).
20:00. Conference dinner. Cornstore, Thomas Street (Limerick).
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