9.00: Introduction, Leonardo A. Carrió Cataldi  and Dániel Margócsy

9.15 – 10.30 : Early Modern Medicine: Actors, Sources and Institutions

Sheryl Wombell (Cambridge) Theodore Turquet de Mayerne’s epistolary medical practice

Chloë Cuberli (LARHRA), The Records of Medical Colleges: Corporate Life and the Making of a Learned Society

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 12.05 : Modern Scientific and Technical Control of Plagues

Mika Hyman (Cambridge) Curing Cocoa: Plant Pathogens and the Making of Agricultural Research Institutions in Twentieth-Century Trinidad

Lua Pillier-Grandelli (LARHRA): Mosquito Control in the Languedoc Coast: The Scientific Production of the Entente Interdépartementale de Démoustication

12.05 – 13.00: Lunch Break

13.00 – 14.45 : Knowledge, savoir-faire and beliefs in the Americas and France

D ‘Johensby Simeon (LARHRA): From “Superstition” to “Belief”: The Process of Semantic

Reframe and Legitimization of Spiritualities in the French Antilles  (16th-17th centuries)

Xinyi Zhao (LARHRA/East China Normal University) The Vaporous Body: Naming and Sensing Malaise in Eighteenth-Century French Medicine

Nienke Groskamp (Cambridge) Christian Science Obstetrics and Techniques for Alleviating

Childbirth Pain in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States

14.45 – 15.15: final discussion

15.15: Visit to the Musée des Confluences (optional)