January 11-12, 2024
Princeton University | Dickinson Hall, Room 211

This workshop for contributors to an edited volume by the same name, will share their current drafts and and receive feedback in preparation for publishing. This workshop is only open the members of the Department of History and Program in History of Science (faculty, graduate students, and fellows).

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This workshop is being organized by Professors Angela N.H. Creager (Princeton University), Christoph Gradmann (University of Oslo), and Mathias Grote (University of Greifswald).

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Workshop Schedule:

 

Thursday, January 11, 2024
Technologies and Concepts — Evolution, Genetics and Ecology

 

9:30 - 10 a.m. | Welcome and Mingling
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Mathias Grote, University of Greifswald
• Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo

10 - 10:45 a.m. | The Agenda of the Book
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo
• Mathias Grote, University of Greifswald

10:45 - 11 a.m. | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Session 1

• Mathias Grote, University of Greifswald | "Communities, Cycles, Environments: Microbes as Agents of Planetary Change"
• Commentator: Angela N.H. Creager, Princeton University

• Charles A. Kollmer, California Institute of Technology | "Yellowstone as Laboratory: Thomas Brock, Microbial Ecology, and the Origins of a 'Golden Microbe'”
• Commentator: Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Université Laval

1 - 2 p.m. | Lunch
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

2 - 5:30 p.m. | Session 2

• Lukas Engelmann, University of Edinburgh | “Modelling Infectious Disease — Building a Science of Epidemics in the Twentieth Century”
• Commentator: Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo

3 - 3:15 p.m. | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

3:15 – 5:15 p.m. | Session 2 (Continued)
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Université Laval | "Stanley Falkow on the Molecular Study of Pathogenic Organisms and the Regulation of Scientific Research, 1960-2000"
• Commentator: Angela Cassidy, University of Exeter

• Axel C. Hüntelmann, Charite University Medicine | “Thinking Holistically. Human-Animal Relationship and the Rising Concept of One Health Since the 1970s”
• Commentators: Claas Kirchhelle, University College Dublin and Frédéric Vagneron, Université de Strasbourg

 

Friday, January 12, 2024
Institutions and Orders, Materialities and Environments — Bodies, Laboratories, Industry, Hospital and Hygiene

 

9 - 10 a.m. | Session 3
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University | “Forms of Life or Chemicals? Microbes and the US Regulation of Biotechnology”
• Commentator: María J. Santesmases, Instituto de Filosofía

10 - 10:15 a.m. | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Session 3 (continued)
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Claas Kirchhelle, University College Dublin and Frédéric Vagneron, Université de Strasbourg | “Culture, Codes, Communities: Connecting the International History of Microbiology and Microbial Culture Collections (1890-2010)”
• Commentator: Victoria Lee, Ohio University [Zoom]


• Hannah Landecker, University of California, Los Angeles | “Microbial Enzymes in Mass Production”
• Commentator: Mathias Grote, University of Greifswald

12:15 - 1 p.m. | Lunch
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

1 – 3 p.m. | Session 4
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo | “Hospital Infections and Disease Evolution”
• Commentator: Axel C. Hüntelmann, Charite University Medicine


• Victoria Lee, Ohio University | “Charismatic Microbes and Coevolutionary History: Diversity and Domestication in Agroindustrial Microbiology” [Zoom]
• Commentator: Lukas Engelmann, University of Edinburgh

3 - 3:30 p.m. | Break
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 210

3:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Session 4 (continued)
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Angela Cassidy, University of Exeter | “From Shared to Separated Health — and Back Again? The Multiple Lives of Mycobacteria”
• Commentator: Charles A. Kollmer, California Institute of Technology

• María J. Santesmases, Instituto de Filosofía | “Practicing with Microbes: Skills and Visual Cultures for a Gendered Genealogy”
• Commentator: Hannah Landecker, University of California, Los Angeles

5:30 - 6 p.m. | Timelines, Deadlines, Practicalities
Location: Dickinson Hall, Room 211

• Mathias Grote, University of Greifswald
• Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo