Sciences between Tradition and Innovation – Historical Perspectives

“The Patterns of the Circulation of Scientific Knowledge in Hungary, 1770-1830” Research Group supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
“Literature in Western Hungary, 1770–1820” Research Group supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Research Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Date: 2019. május 28-29

Place: Eöltvös Loránd University Institute of History, Szekfű Gyula Library (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút I. em. 115.)

PROGRAMME

28 May 2019 (Tuesday)

8.30 Registration

9.00-9.20 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Gábor Sonkoly, Dean of Eötvös Loránd University and Lilla Krász, Project Leader)

9.20-10.00 Keynote Lecture 1
Hans Erich BÖDEKER (Göttingen): Gelehrsamkeit als aufklärerische epistemische Kultur: Ideale – Strategien – Praktiken

10.00-12.30 Session 1 – Knowledge Production and Circulation: Personal and Institutional Aspects
Chair: Martin Gierl
Benedek LÁNG (Budapest): Transfer of Knowledge in the Field of Universal Language Schemes in the 18th and 19th Centuries
László KONTLER (Budapest): An Unestablished Academy of Sciences: Maximilian Hell and Ex-Jesuit Trajectories in the Habsburg Monarchy after 1773

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

Dezső GURKA (Szarvas): Ungarische Bezüge in den Wechselwirkungen von Philosophie und Fachwissenschaften am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts in Jena
Gergely FÓRIZS (Budapest): Das Bildungsprogramm Tobias Gottfried Schröers (1791–1850), Professor am evangelischen Lyzeum in Pressburg

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 2 – Epistemology: Scope, Methods and Practices
Chair: Sonia Horn
György KURUCZ (Budapest): The Standards of Observation and Registration: Travel Instructions for a Technological Journey
Tibor BODNÁR-KIRÁLY (Budapest): Traditional Techniques, Innovative Methodologies: Gathering Information and Writing Statistics in Late 18th Century Hungary
Piroska BALOGH (Budapest): Three Authors from the Kingdom of Hungary – Three Methods from Göttingen

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Session 3 – Rethoric of Knowledge: Medical Writing
Chair: Hans Erich Bödeker
Karel ČERNÝ (Prague): Discourse of Innovation: 17th Century Dutch Physicians Jan Baptist van Helmont and Cornelius Bontekoe on Their Struggle with the Medical Establishment
Sonia HORN (Vienna): Die Konstruktion von Tradition und Innovation in der Wiener Medizingeschichtsschreibung des späten 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
Lilla KRÁSZ (Budapest): Eine historische Anthropologie des medizinischen Schreibens im Königreich Ungarn des späten 18. Jahrhunderts

18.00 Reception
(Eötvös Loránd University, Múzeum krt. 4., Building A, 1st Floor)

PROGRAMME

29 May 2019 (Wednesday)

9.00-9.40 Keynote Lecture 2
Martin GIERL (Göttingen): Synchronisation

9.40-11.30 Session 4 – Dissemination in Printed Media: Ethnological Knowledge
Chair: László Kontler
Ildikó SZ. KRISTÓF (Budapest): Tahiti in Hungary: The Reception of the Voyages of James Cook and the Emergence of Cultural Anthropology in Hungary
Andrea SEIDLER (Vienna): Ethnologische Ansätze in den gelehrten Blättern des Königreichs Ungarn im späten 18. Jahrhundert

10.20-10.45 Coffee break

Márton SZILÁGYI (Budapest): Die ungarischsprachigen Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts und die ethnologischen Beschreibungen als belletristische Lesestoffe

11.30-12.00 Closing Remarks: Hans Erich Bödeker

12.30 Lunch