International workshop organized by Lucia Dacome & Jeanne Peiffer

Centre Alexandre Koyré
Pavillon Chevreul, 57 rue Cuvier (3rd floor), 75005 Paris

Thursday 11 June 2009

Chair: Anne Collinot (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS)

9:45 Welcome by Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS)

10:00 Montserrat Cabré (University of Cantabria)
Healing, caring and the writing of medieval women's lives

11:00 Lucia Dacome (Marie Curie Fellow, Centre Alexandre Koyré & University of Toronto)
Modelling biographies: Marie Marguerite Bihéron, Anna Morandi Manzolini and the life of
things

12:00 Mary Terrall (UCLA)
Naming the unnamed artist: Hélène Du Moustier's life in Réaumur's household

13:00 Lunch

Chair: Kapil Raj (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS)

14:30 Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University)
Women independent scholars and the creation of the history of science as a research
field

15:30 Paola Govoni (University of Bologna)
Women and men in dialogue on the culture of science: Botanist Eva Mameli-Calvino and
science writer Laura Fermi

16:30 Panel Discussion
with Jacqueline Carroy (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS), Delphine Gardey (University
of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines) and Catherine Viollet (ITEM, CNRS).
Moderator: Rafael Mandressi (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS)

The workshop is part of the seminar series Le biographique dans l’histoire et la sociologie des sciences: http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=667