The Research Centre for Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University and the Complex Committee on the History of Science and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organised a conference on 6 September 2019. Two of our colleague participated in the event. Lilla Krász spoke about the medical policies and local communities in eighteenth-century Hungary and Dezső Gurka discussed the local modulations of Neptunism in Jena at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.