Prospects of Decay: Reflecting on the Decadence of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Workshop with Jessica Stacey (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin) and Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)

Location: Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion”, conference room Freie Universität Berlin Schwendenerstraße 8 Conference room

Chemical Transformations of Medical Relevance in the Eighteenth Century

(Medicine, Life, and Transformations of Matter Part II) A conference organized by the associated project “Fermentation: A Cultural History of Knowledge” by Dr. Carmen Schmechel

Location: Freie Universität Berlin SFB 980 Episteme in Bewegung Sitzungsraum Schwendenerstraße 8 14195 Berlin

J.B. Van Helmont’s Concept of ‘Sulphurs’ as Universal Medicines

Lecture by Dr. Georgiana D. Hedesan, Oxford as part of the series “Metabolisms of Matter”

Tam verba quam diagramma. A visual history of the fortune and misfortune of Galileo’s and Descartes’s theories of the tides

Lecture by Prof. Carla Rita Palmerino, Radboud, Nijmegen as part of the series “Metabolisms of Matter”

Metabolisms of Matter

A lecture series of the Collaborative Research Center 980, organized by Dr. Carmen Schmechel (Associated DFG Project “Fermentation: Eine Wissensgeschichte”)

Imperial Fictions

A conference organized by the Anglistics CRC-project by Andrew James Johnston in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities”

Prospects of Decay: Reflecting on Rusty Language and the Decadence of Taste in Eighteenth-Century France

Workshop with Jessica Stacey (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, Institut für Romanische Philologie)

Location: Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion”, Freie Universität Berlin Schwendenerstraße 8 Conference room