The aim of learned periodicals is to circulate information concerning the world of learning : information on recent books on a wide range of topics, news concerning research, observations, experiments, inventions and the Academy. The book market and the traces of private or institutional uses witness the circulation of learned journals all over Europe. Does the material circulation of single titles induce knowledge transfers ? This question gets regional answers, the result of the mapping of these transfers not being homogeneous at all. For a workshop like ours, it is then interesting to investigate where these transfers take place, and where not ? Are they parochial, do they extend from one region to another or do they concern the whole of Europe ? It is also interesting to study the forms they take : reprints, resumptions or translations.

Colloque annoncé par Jeanne Peiffer et Jean-Pierre Vittu.

Circulating journals and knowledge transfer. Second meeting of the European network on “Scientific periodicals in modern Europe”

Maison française Oxford, 25-27 May 2006

Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE

With the support of Maison française d'Oxford, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EA “Savoirs et pouvoirs” - University of Orléans, French Ministry for Research (ACI “Histoire des savoirs”-2004)

The aim of learned periodicals is to circulate information concerning the world of learning : information on recent books on a wide range of topics, news concerning research, observations, experiments, inventions and the Academy. The book market and the traces of private or institutional uses witness the circulation of learned journals all over Europe. Does the material circulation of single titles induce knowledge transfers ? This question gets regional answers, the result of the mapping of these transfers not being homogeneous at all. For a workshop like ours, it is then interesting to investigate where these transfers take place, and where not ? Are they parochial, do they extend from one region to another or do they concern the whole of Europe ? It is also interesting to study the forms they take : reprints, resumptions or translations.

Provisional Program

Thursday, May 25: Afternoon Session, 14.30 - 18.00

Journals as tools for circulating science
Les journaux outils de circulation scientifique

Welcome by M.F.O.

Jeanne Peiffer (CNRS, Paris) & Jean-Pierre Vittu (Université d'Orléans), Introduction

Silvia Roero (University of Turin), «The editorial policy of the Venice Giornale de' Letterati d'Italia (1710-1740) and its Supplementi (1722-1726) in the field of mathematical and physical sciences»

Raffaella Seligardi (University of Bologna), «Italian network and European network: scientific journals and the chemical revolution»



Friday, May 26: Morning Session, 9.30 - 13.00

Foreign knowledge mirrorised in journals
Les journaux miroirs d'un savoir étranger

Maria Conforti (University of Rome 1, La Sapienza), «Images of European science and medicine in Neapolitan learned periodicals of the early 19th century»

Fernando Reis (New University of Lisbon), «From London and Paris to Portugal and Brazil: the role of the Portuguese periodicals published by portuguese émigrés in the early nineteenth century (1808-1822)»

Hélène Waast (Université d'Orléans), «La circulation des savoirs sur l'Inde à travers les périodiques : le cas du Journal des savants et des Mémoires de Trévoux»

Friday, May 26: Afternoon Session, 14.30 - 18.00

Journals as instruments of knowledge transfer
Les journaux instruments de transfert

Christiane Berkvens-Stevelink (University of Nijmegen), «Pistes de transfert du savoir dans le Nouveau Journal des Savants»

Andrea Seidler (University of Vienna), «Hungary and the German speaking world : the importance of knowledge transfer in 18th century learned journals»

Maria de Fátima Nunes (University of Evora), «The cultural and scientific press in Portugal during the 18th century. A methodological approach»

Saturday, May 27: Morning Session, 9.30 - 13.00

Networks of academic and periodical exchange
Réseaux d'échange académiques et périodiques

Erika Luciano (University of Turin), «Transmission of scientific knowledge and editorial policy at the Turin Academy of sciences through its eighteenth-century periodicals»

Jens Haeseler (F.E.A. Potsdam), «Circulations multiples des savoirs et des formes rédactionnelles : la Nouvelle bibliothèque germanique face à l'encyclopédisme»

Ingemar Oscarsson (University of Lund), «Learned periodicals in 18th century Sweden. Some observations on typology, circulation, and contents»


Saturday, May 27: Afternoon Session, 14.30 - 16.30

General discussion
Discussion générale

Vous trouverez le programme définitif sur le site suivant : http://www.histnet.cnrs.fr/research/periodiques-savants/