Symposium: Migration, Mobility, and Expertise, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 29 September 2023
In collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) the project team is organising a symposium that will explore the links between skilled migration and scientific and technological innovation across the premodern and early modern worlds. The symposium which brings together the project team and members of the project and the MPIWG for a day-long workshop at the MPIWG’s site in Berlin.
Audience space is limited, but it will also be possible to join online via Zoom. To register for either, please email felicia.gottmann@northumbria.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
9:00-9:30
Arrival and Welcome
9:30-12:00
SESSION I: MIGRATION, ADAPTATION, INNOVATION
Felicia Gottmann (Northumbria University): Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500-1800: Project presentation and European context
Floris van Swet (Northumbria University): Migrants and Technology Transfer across East Asia, 1500-1800
Rémi Dewière (Northumbria): Behind diplomacy and technology lies a migrant. The impact of migrants’ experience in technological dialogue in the early modern Islamic World
Oliver Gunning (Northumbria University): The links between migration and industrialisation in early modern Britain, with a specific emphasis on the glassmaking sector.
12:00-13:00
Lunchbreak
13:00-14:30
SESSION II: EXPERIENCE IN THE PREMODERN SCIENCES
Tracy Wietecha: Knowledge Migration and a Failed Botany: the role of Non-Scientists in the Collection of American Botanical Specimens in the late Eighteenth Century
Katja Krause (MPIWG, Berlin): Premodern Experience in Translation, Transfer, or Migration? The Movement of Knowledge and Historiographical Metaphors
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-17:00
SESSION III: KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE
Chun Xu (MPIWG, Berlin): Seasonal Barbarian Migrants and Irrigation Maintenance in the Chengdu Plain, 1500-1800
Siyen Fei (University of Pennsylvania):Lost People on the Ming frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
Qiao Yang (MPIWG, Berlin): Migration of People and Migration of Knowledge in Mongol Eurasia (13th-14th centuries).
17:00- 17:30
CONCLUDING COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION
Dagmar Schäfer
