The Sub-Committee on the History of Life Sciences of the Committee on Cultural History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences, the Ottó Herman Institute, and the Company of Dental History of the Hungarian Society for the History of Medicine organised a two-day conference on the history of life sciences. On 30 September, our colleagues, Tibor Bodnár-Király and Lilla Krász gave presentations on The Problems of Human Progression in Sámuel Csernatoni Vajda’s Translation of Karl Friedrich Flögel’s Geschichte des menschlichen Verstandes and Medical Knowledge and Mediality in the Eighteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy.

The programme of the conference is available here. See the article here and here. See more about the first day of the conference here.