Floris Winckel

PhD Student, History of Science

Talks


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 20/08/2025       Roundtable Discussion ‘Après Ski. Book lounge and mingle on Snow with Sverker Sörlin’  (with Sverker Sörlin, Maria Gunther Axelsson, Isak Stoddard, David Kihlberg), European Society for Environmental History Annual Conference 2023, Uppsala, SWE. [Invited].

09/07/2025       ‘Ukichiro Nakaya’s Journey Across the Lab-Field Divide’ British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK.

13/02/2025      ‘What are Ice Cores Archives of?’ Traces of the Anthropocene. How Archives Become Stories, Workshop, Vechta, DEU.

05/09/2024      ‘Making Sense of Snowflakes in the Eighteenth Century’ 11th  European Society for the History of Science Conference, Barcelona, ESP.

19/08/2024      ‘Studying Snowflakes in High Places: An Aesthetics of Science’ 4th World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, FI.

30/04/2024      Roundtable Discussion: ‘Is Winter Still Coming? The Arctic Humanities in Times of Climate Change’(with Prof Sverker Sörlin, Dr Juliane Egerer, Anne-Sophie Balzer), Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, DE. [Invited].

04/03/2024      ‘Ukichiro Nakaya’s Expansive Cryosphere’ Northern Environmental History Network Research Seminar, Online, UK. [Invited].

21/02/2024      ‘How do you tell a story like Nakaya?’, IDK Colloquium 2024, Munich/Augsburg, DE.

10/02/2024       ‘Climate Change and the Aesthetics of Scientists’ Engagement with Nature’ Values in Climate and Environmental Sciences, Munich, DE.

25/08/2023      ‘Snowflakes as ArchivesEuropean Society of Environmental History Annual Conference 2023, Bern, CH.

16/02/2023      ‘Why Scientific Visualisation Matters’, IDK Colloquium 2023, Munich/Augsburg, DE.

09/02/2023      ‘The Visual Culture of Studying Snowflakes Oberseminar „Perspektiven der Wissenschaftsgeschichte“, LMU, Munich, DE. [Invited].

07/12/2022      ‘From Pencil to Camera: How Picturing Snowflakes Changed in the Nineteenth CenturyKolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, DE. [Invited].

23/07/2022      ‘Environment, technology, and visual technique in the study of snowflakes, 1800-1900British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Belfast, UK.

21/04/2022      ‘Making snowflake knowledge: a longue-durée history of scienceRachel Carson Center Research Forum 2022, Munich, DE.

30/03/2022      ‘Picturing Snowflakes, 1611-1966: A New Approach to Global, Longue-durée History of ScienceIDK Colloquium 2022, Munich/Augsburg, DE.

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12/06/2020      Static, or dynamic? Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745-1789’, Going Viral: HSMT Postgraduate Conference, Oxford, UK

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19/06/2019      ‘Understanding Dutch Science in the Age of Revolution: the vision and career of Jan Hendrik van Swinden (1746-1823)’, St. Chad’s College Undergraduate Research Forum, Durham, UK