Presentation Date:
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Location:
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (HSS Conference 2019)
I am concerned with what happens when two movements cross. In my take on medical migration, the first would be the movement of medical students travelling between home where they grew up, a series of universities, and later when many of them became doctors and professors, their adult home and life. This is a geographical movement which also crosses cultural boundaries, regional customs, status groups, religious, market and household cultures and traditions of thinking and belief. The second movement is the movement of non-tangible goods such as skills, ideas, information, knowledge, techniques that are part of academic work behaviour . The students adopted some of them, used them, taught them maybe or just released them elsewhere, where they would have had an effect on local cultures, in- or outside academia. My talk is the first step into a process that might eventually produce not only a sense of the geographical spread of persons and idea , but also help define a range of new ways of adopting and transmitting information in early modern Europe. It involves scrutinizing the transmission of information between teacher and student, which I call in my title from one generation to the next.