Thursday, 9 March
9.30: Welcome and Introduction

10.00: Panel 1 – Technology and the History of Knowledge
Chair: Liliane Hilaire-Perez (EHESS/Univ. Paris Cité)

Adam Lucas (Univ. of Wollongong), Growth and Decline of English Windmills, 1180–1938
Frédéric Chambat (ENS-Lyon), D’Alembert’s Reflections on the Winds
Philippe Bruyerre (EHESS), Les observations de Charles-Augustin Coulomb à Lille en 1781: mesurer le »degré de perfection« des moulins à vent pour évaluer les »prétendues inventions« éoliennes issues de l’imaginaire des inventeurs

11.30: General discussion of the panel

12.00: Lunch

13.00: Panel 2 – Affective Economies
Chair: Arnaud Orain (Univ. Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis)

Inger Leemans (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam), The »Invention« of Wind Trade
Christine Zabel (DHIP), Emulation and Fabulation of Wind Trade in the German Lands around 1720
Frans Willem Korsten (Leiden Univ.), A Special Relationship: The Dutch and the Windmill

14.30: General discussion of the panel

15.00: Coffee break

15.30: Panel 3 – Part II
Chair: Arnaud Orain (Univ. Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis)

Wouter de Vries (Leiden Univ.), Moving Earth: The Imagineering of Wind as a Productive Force
Robert-Jan Wille (Utrecht Univ.), »Atmospheric Sensibility« and the Aerial History of the Netherlands

16.30: General discussion of the panel

17.00–17.30: Plenary discussion of the day

Friday, 10 March
10.00: Panel 3 – The Aesthetics of the Invisible: Literature and the Arts
Chair: Anouchka Vasak (Poitiers Univ.)

Alessandro Nova (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Image, Text, and Meteorology from Vernet to Turner
Daniel Fulda (Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg), Wind of change? Wettermotive in Programmbildern und Vokabular der Aufklärung

11.00: Coffee break

11.15: Panel 3 – Part II
Chair: Anouchka Vasak (Poitiers Univ.)

Ingo Uhlig (Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg), Poetics from space. Wind, dezentrale Infrastrukturen und Erzählformen
Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS), Aller contre le vent: performance paradoxale et imaginaire technique de l’aérostation naissante

12.15: General discussion of the panel

13.00: Lunch

14.00: Panel 4 – »In the wind«. Imagination, Beliefs, Technologies
Chair: Thomas Le Roux (CNRS)

Tina Asmussen (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum), Fortuna in the Mines: Tech nologies and Cosmologies of Winds and Trade in Early Modern Mining
Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester Univ.), Theology of Winds

15.00: General discussion of the panel

15.15: Coffee break

15.30–16.15: Lissa Roberts (Twente Univ.), Concluding Remarks