October 20-21, 2016
Life sciences: imagination and scientific discourse (late 18th – 19th centuries)
Thursday October 20 – 9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Opening – 9:30 a.m.
Professor Marek Więckowski, director of the Académie polonaise des Sciences in Paris
Professor Miroslaw Loba, Adam Mickiewicz University
Professor Gisèle Séginger, Paris-Est University and Institut Universitaire de France
SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION AND SPIRITUALIST issues – 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Chair: Gisèle Séginger
Mirosław Loba (Adam Mickiewicz University – Poznań)
“Vitalism : between science et morality”
Marta Sukiennicka (Adam Mickiewicz University – Poznań)
“Imagination in Charles Bonnet’s scientific writings”
Bénédicte Percheron (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
“Louis Figuier’s La Terre avant le déluge : aesthetic and spiritualist issues”
Thursday 20 october – 14:30 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
strategies and debates: the ambiguities of scientific writing
Chair: Michael Soubbotnik
Barbara Łuczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
“Transmitting knowledge and training the mind : botany for women in the Bibliothèque universelle des dames”
Wojciech Sawala (Adam Mickiewicz University)
“Franz Joseph Gall : autobiography and bio-politics”
Patrycja Tomczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
“Regio Gigantum : three naturalists (Darwin, d’Orbiny, Domeyko) in Patagonia”
Carmen Husti (Paris-Est University)
“Georges Pouchet’s La pluralité des races humaines : imagination in scientific discourse”
Friday October 21 – 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Metaphors and models
Chair: Mirosław Loba
Gisèle SÉGINGER (Paris-Est University and Institut Universitaire de France)
“Quinet’s La Création : scientific and historic writing”
Azélie Fayolle (Paris-Est University)
“Claude Bernard’s living machine”
Michael Soubbotnik (Paris-Est University)
“Birth of the tree: from Darwin’s early Notebooks to the closing paragraph of the Origin of Species“
Friday October 21 – 14:00 p.m. -18:30 p.m.
Between observation and poetic reverie : the scientific wonders
Chair: Patrycja Tomczak
Juliette Azoulai (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
“Living light: naturalistic discourse on the phosphorescence of the sea in the 19th century”
Yohann ringuede (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
“Imagination and observation : Jean-Henri Fabre’s Souvenirs entomologiques“
Amazing science (exhibition)
16.00 p.m. -18:30 p.m.
Claude ECKEN (writer)
“Science in fiction: a creative presentation”
Claire LISSALDE (Curator of the exhibition and INSERM audiovisual department director).
Guided tour of the Amazing science exhibition
Organization and coordination : Gisèle Séginger: gisele.seginger@u-pem.fr