Sarton Medal 2025 –
Sartonmedaille 2025
on Thursday, November 13th at 4 pm
in Auditorium
Leon De Meyer of the University Forum
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
33, 9000 GENT
The Ghent University Sarton Committee,
Prof. Dr. Michel Tison, Dean of the Faculty of Law and
Criminology
have the honour to invite you to the Sarton Lecture,
the laudatio and the handing over of the Sarton
Medal to
Prof. Dr. Lucien
Bély
(Institut de France –
Sorbonne Université)
Programme
- Welcome by dean Michel Tison.
- Laudatio of Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély by Prof.
Dr. Rik Opsommer.
- Sarton lecture, in French, by Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély
on
Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes
to
be published in Sartoniana as:
Women in diplomacy in the
Early Modern Era
- Handing over of the Sarton Medal by Prof. Dr. Maarten
Van Dyck, Academic Secretary of the Sarton Committee
- Drink offered by the Faculty of Law and Criminology.
George Sarton
(1884-1956), one of the founding fathers of the history of science as an
academic discipline, was an alumnus of Ghent University. In 1912, one
year after his graduation in physics and mathematics, he wrote to a friend:
“J'ai décidé de vouer ma vie à l'étude désintéressée de l'histoire des
sciences”. He established
two leading journals in the field (Isis in 1912 and Osiris in
1934) and the History of Science Society. In 1984, at the centenary of Sarton's
birthday, Ghent University decided to establish a Sarton Chair of History of
Science. Each year the Sarton committee, consisting of representatives of the
faculties of Ghent University, selects the Sarton chair holder and the Sarton
medallists. The Sarton chair holder and the medallists are invited to lecture
on the history of science in the faculties of the university.. The lectures are
published in the annual journal Sartoniana. (www.sartonchair.ugent.be).
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