Dates of stay: from 22 February to 08 March 2026

Project: "Epistemic-sensory configurations in the face of urban unhealthiness during the nineteenth century in Europe and America"

Project description:

During the nineteenth century there were important epistemological and technical changes in various disciplines that defended, negotiated and defined the limits of what was scientific and what was not. Occasionally, medicine, pharmacy and chemistry generated synergies that resulted in the legitimization and implementation of new procedures and knowledge to deal with disease, unhealthiness and contagion in urban spaces with a sustained demographic increase. However, these processes have rarely been analyzed by focusing on the sensory elements that made them possible. This research aims to analyze the theoretical and practical definitions of these forms of knowledge and how they mobilized sensory experiences and established definitions of sensory life to build expertise that would allow us to domesticate perceptions about urban unhealthiness.

Biographical note:

Bachelor's and Master's degree in History from Andrés Bello University and PhD candidate in Applied Humanities from Andrés Bello University, Chile. Lines of research in History of Science and Medicine, Historical Epistemology, Sensory History and Digital Humanities.