Fire Management in the Early Modern Age: Knowledge, Technology, Economy

International workshop Programme 16 September 2021: (all sessions take place in room R.O.12, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, 2000 Neuchâtel) 9:00-9:30: Welcome by the conference organizers Session 1: The Knowledge of Fire (chair: Liliane Hilaire-Pérez) 9:30-10:15: HANNAH ELMER (Hannover), Purification and Fire in Early Modern Alchemy 10:15-11:00 MARCO STORNI (Neuchâtel), Thermometerless: The Codification of a Technology of Heat in the Early Modern Age Coffee break Session 2: The Chemical Fire (chair: Marco Storni) 11:15-12:00: BÉRENGÈRE PINAUD (Paris), De l’officine au jardin. Usages du feu dans les milieux apothicaires au XVIIIe siècle à Paris 12:00-12:45 .MARCO BERETTA (Bologna), Heat and Fire in Lavoisier’s Experimental Techniques Lunch break Session 3: Inventions and Inventors (chair: Gianenrico Bernasconi) 14:30-15:15: RUBEN VERWAAL (Durham), Managing Gentle Heat: Little Furnaces in the Eighteenth Century 15:15-16:00 |: OLIVIER JANDOT (Arras), Les mécaniciens du feu. Inventeurs et promoteurs d’instruments de chauffage, XVIIIe-début XIXe siècle Coffee break Session 4: Fire and Technology (chair: Marie Thébaud-Sorger) 16:15-17:00: GIANENRICO BERNASCONI (Neuchâtel), Cuisine et cultures du feu à l’époque moderne 17:00-17:45. CYRIL LACHEZE (Paris), « La maniére de conduire le feu ». Cuire la terre cuite architecturale à l’époque moderne, entre savoir-faire, disette de bois et innovations Short break 18:00-18:45: SIMON WERRETT (London), Fire as an Emoterial: Passion and Pyrotechnics in the Early Modern Era 17 September 2021 (all sessions take place in room R.O.12, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, 2000 Neuchâtel) Session 5: Fire Management in the Urban Space (chair: Marco Beretta) 9:30-10:15: MARIE THÉBAUD-SORGER (Paris), Agir sur le départ de feu pour contrer l’incendie. Inventions, matériaux et savoirs de la combustion au XVIIIe siècle 10:15-11:00: BELLA KATALIN (Budapest), Inflammable Roof and Odourless Coal: Traditional and Modern Inventions to Serve a City 11:00-11:45: CORNELIA MÜLLER (Zittau/Görlitz), Organizing the Chaos: How Firefighting Was Organised in the Towns of Bautzen, Görlitz and Löbau in the 17th and 18th Century Coffee break Session 6: Concluding Remarks 12:00-12:45: LILIANE HILAIRE-PÉREZ (Paris), Research Perspectives on Fire Management in the Early Modern Age Webex link available upon request (hybrid event)