Calendario eventi
The aim of this online seminar series is to reflect on Pasteurian themes - broadly defined - on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the “father of bacteriology”. It’s not just the search for the “heritage” nor for the “pasteurization” of life sciences: we want to reflect on how Pasteurian life sciences resonate with society at large, interacting with practices and concepts in bordering disciplines. Far from aspiring to a complete map of Pasteur’s legacy, we would like these seminars to provide inspiration for further research.
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Scientific and Organizing Committee: Mauro Capocci (University of Pisa), Maria Conforti (Sapienza University of Rome), Antonio Clericuzio (University of Rome 3).
All the seminars will be streamed at the following link:
https://meet.google.com/bzt-uc
OPENING EVENT
October 24th 17.00 (CET)
ROBERT BUD (Emeritus Keeper at the Science Museum, London, UK)
The Bernardian alternative: The IBPC, the materialist left and the questions of Life in the 1930s
The talk is an exploration of the association of an alternative model of 'Life' with a clearly articulated secularist position during the inter-war years. In 1927 the Institut Pasteur was complemented in Paris by another institute, inspired by the memory of Claude Bernard, the Institut de Biologie Physico-chemique. The leadership and many of the early members of the institute had well established and well-known political positions, several were leading Dreyfusards, associated with secularism and the Union Rationaliste, and leadership of several major Popular Front initiatives. They also had a strongly reductionist anti-vitalist programme.
November 24th, h17.00
Agnese COLLINO (Biologist, Scientific Supervisor, Fondazione Umberto Veronesi)
Polio: the Italian history
January 26th, 2023, h17.00
Bert HANSEN (Professor Emeritus of History, Baruch College of the City University of New York)
Understanding Pasteur's Use of the Fine Arts and Popular Media
February 23th, 2023, h17.00
Aro VELMET (University of Southern California, University of Tartu)
Pasteur's Empire: Yellow fever vaccination and the politics of colonial infrastructure in West Africa