CONFERENCE GENERAL PROGRAM
Monday 2nd September
Salone Estense (City Hall), Palazzo Estense, via Sacco 5, Varese
17.00 - 19.00 Registration and free visit to the Estensi Gardens
19.00 - 20.00 Welcome Address
- Mayor of the City of Varese: avv. Davide Galimberti
- Provost of the University of Insubria: prof. Angelo Tagliabue
- President of the Visconti San Vito Foundation: avv. Gaetano Galeone
- Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences,
University of Insubria: prof. Mauro Ferrari
- INHIGEO President: prof. Barry J. Cooper
- INHIGEO General Secretary: prof. Marianne Klemun
- Chair of INHIGEO 2019 Organizing Committee: prof. Ezio Vaccari
20.00 - 22.00 Reception with buffet … and music from the Italian mountains
Tuesday 3rd September
Aula Magna, University of Insubria, via Ravasi 2, Varese
8.00 - 9.00 Registration and poster arrangement
Scientific Session: History of the Earth Sciences in Mountain Environment - 1
Chair: Ezio VACCARI
9.00 - 9.10 Introduction
9.10 - 9.30 Gregory GOOD, The Astronomers who Fell to Earth: Or, How the Copernican Revolution was
completed in the Alps
9.30 - 9.50 Gaston GODARD*, Simone TUMIATI, The ancient manganese mine of Praborna (Aosta Valley, Italian
Alps): witness to the multi-centenarian evolution of mineralogy and glassmaking
9.50 - 10.10 Ernst HAMM, Mountains and the Construction and Formation of the Earth: Leopold von Buch as
Geologist and Naturalist
10.10 - 10.30 Sharad MASTER, Geological exploration of the Ruwenzoris, the legendary Mountains of the Moon
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break
Scientific Session: History of the Earth Sciences in Mountain Environment - 2
Chair: Stephen ROWLAND
11.00 - 11.20
Mike JOHNSTON, The “Dun
Mountain Inoceramus” and the Maitai Controversy - a major stratigraphic problem in 19th
century New Zealand
11.20 - 11.40 Paolo MACINI*, Ezio MESINI, Development of Geosciences and Petroleum Exploration in the Italian Apennines between 19th and Early 20th Century
11.40 - 12.00 Margret HAMILTON, The geographer Ferdinand Löwl (1856-1908). His representation of the Tonalit of the Rieserferner group in 1893
12.00 - 12.20 Adele GARZARELLA*, Wojciech NAREBSKI, R. DEERE, M. PATRICELLI, K. PIOTROWSKY,
F. LARCINESE, The impact of geology in the Italian Campaign: new contributions from Polish, Italian and British archives and documents for the study of the Mountain Warfare from the Gustav (Lazio-Abruzzo)
to the Gothic Line (Toscana-Emilia Romagna)
12.20 - 12.35 Discussion
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch at Villa Mirabello
13.45 - 14.30 Visit to Guttuso Exhibition or Archaeological Museum at Villa Mirabello
Scientific Session: General contribution on the History of Geology - 1
Chair: Luz AZUELA
14.40 - 15.00 Francesca GAMBINO*, Pietro MOSCA, Luca BARALE, Alessandro BORGHI, Anna D'ATRI,
Luca MARTIRE, A geo-historical tour through the city of Torino and the Susa Valley (NW Italy)
15.00 - 15.20 Ivan VTOROV, The importance of A.E. Fersman research on Elba Island (1908)
15.20 - 15.40 Lucero MORELOS, Dolores Rubio Ávila. A First Engineer ́s Scholar and Academic in Mexico, 1910
15.40 - 16.00 Dorothy SACK, Israel Cook Russell, Paradigmatic Pragmatist?
16.00 - 16.15 Discussion
16.15 - 16.30 Coffee break
Scientific Session: General contribution on the History of Geology - 2
Chair: Kennard BORK
16.30 - 16.50 Daniele MUSUMECI*, Stefano BRANCA, Luigi INGALISO, The Magmatological Tectonics: Alfred Rittmann's paradigm (1893-1980)
16.50 - 17.10 Tina ASMUSSEN, Rich Ores and Barren Rock: A Material History of Finding in the 16th and 17th centuries
17.10 - 17.30 Khallaf EL-GHALBI, Rocks in Arab-Islamic scientific heritage
17.30 - 17.50 Tatiana IVANOVA, Natural stone in the history of the Russian culture (XII - ХV centuries)
17.50 - 18.05 Discussion
18.10 - 19.00 Poster Session
- Alessio ARGENTIERI*, Giovanni DE CATERINI, 1969-2019: half century after the “Upper Liri Basin hydrogeology” study by Bruno Accordi and the new Roman geological school
- Fabiana CONSOLE*, Simone FABBI, Bonaventura Montani: A forgotten pioneer of Italian Geological Mapping
- John DIEMER, The Geology of the Ural Mountains as Understood by Roderick Murchison in 1845
- Maria FACCIOLI, Mineralogical journeys in the 18th century as tools of knowledge of the Earth: the case of Marco Carburi
- Algimantas GRIGELIS, Leonora Živilė GELUMBAUSKAITĖ, The Prussian origin of Baltic amber: a history of discoveries
- Loredana LANCINI, Myths and legends as a source of reality: the place of geomythlogy in the history of geology
- Lamberto LAURETI, The geological School of Torquato Taramelli
-
Daniele MUSUMECI, The Magmatological Tectonics:
Alfred Rittmann's paradigm (1893-1980)
Wednesday 4th September
Aula Magna, University of Insubria, via Ravasi 2, Varese
8.30 - 9.00 Registration
Scientific Session: History of Communication in the Geological Sciences - 1
Chair: Martina KÖLBL-EBERT
9.00 - 9.20 Fabio D'ANGELO, From the Kingdom of Naples to Germany. The travel around Europe of six
neapolitan naturalists (1789-1796)
9.20 - 9.40 Paolo SAMMURI, Two letters on Mining sites in Tuscany by Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti to Count of
Richecourt
9.40 - 10.00 Luz AZUELA, Long distance collaboration: the Case of Joseph Burkart’s Mexican Partners
10.00 - 10.20 Claudia SCHWEIZER, Landscape and Economy: Ami Boué and his Suggestion of Efficient Routes and
Railways in the “European Turkey”
10.20 - 10.35 Discussion
10.35 - 10.50 Coffee break
Scientific Session: History of Communication in the Geological Sciences - 2
Chair: John DIEMER
10.50 - 11.10 Marianne KLEMUN, Communicating Geology between Bureaucracy, Public, Society and Laymen: the
Geological Survey in the Habsburg Monarchy
11.10 - 11.30 Leonid KOLBANTSEV, History of the Geological Mapping in Russia: from the first sketches to the State
Geological Map
11.30 - 11.50 Barry COOPER, Geological maps from South Australia: their fundamental historic role in
communicating geological information
11.50 - 12.10 Marco PANTALONI, The 1:1M Geological Map of Italy: a milestone in geological knowledge
12.10 - 12.25 Discussion
12.35 - 13.35
Lunch at Villa Mirabello
13.35 - 14.20 Visit to Guttuso Exhibition or Archaeological Museum at Villa Mirabello
Scientific Session: History of Communication in the Geological Sciences - 3
Chair: Silvia FIGUEIRÔA
14.30 - 14.50 Johannes MATTES, Communicating between Research and the Public: The Role of Earth Sciences &
(Popular) Scientific Societies
for the Distribution of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Vienna
14.50 - 15.10 Michiko YAJIMA, The first report of fossils from Japan based on showpieces of the world exposition
15.10 - 15.30
Zoya BESSUDNOVA*, Galina
LYUBINA Paleontologist Maria Pavlowa’s
communication with foreign
scientists in the late 19th - early 20th century
15.30 - 15.50 Andrew HOPKINS, The Collapse of an Argument: Alfred Wegener’s Use of Geodetic Data
15.50 - 16.05 Discussion
16.05 - 16.20 Coffee break
Scientific Session: History of Communication in the Geological Sciences - 4
Chair: Mike JOHNSTON
16.20 - 16.40 Toshihiro YAMADA, Geoscientists and the Buddhism Terms: the Popularization of Science and ‘Cosmic
Consciousness’ in 1920s Japan
16.40 - 17.00 Martina KÖLBL-EBERT, Limits of Communication: Letters by German Geologists in context of the
Nazi regime
17.00 - 17.20 Stephen ROWLAND, Fritz Zerritsch’s Mid-Twentieth-Century History-of-Life Wall-Chart Roll-Ups and
his Collaboration with Paleontologist Erich Thenius
17.20 -
17.35 Discussion
17.40 - 18.00 Bus transfer to Villa Toeplitz
18.00 - 19.30 INHIGEO Business Meeting at Villa Toeplitz (Sala Seminari)
19.30 - 20.00 Visit to Villa Toeplitz Garden
20.00 - 21.30 Cocktail at Villa Toeplitz Tennis Bar
21.30 Return by bus to Varese city center
Thursday 5th September
Mid-Meeting Field Trip
The INHIGEO 2019 Field Trip Guidebook will be included in the conference bag.
Friday 6th September
8.00 Departure by bus to Como from the parking in front of the racecourse Ippodromo Le Bettole, viale
Ippodromo, Varese
Aula Magna, University of Insubria, via Sant’Abbondio 12, Como
Scientific Session: Visual Language in the Geological Sciences
Chair: Marianne KLEMUN
9.10 - 9.30 Renee CLARY, Illustration within Informal Geological Communication during the Golden Age of
Geology (1788-1840)
9.30 - 9.50 Alberto VIANELLI, The illustrations (1802-1809) of Grignon (Paris Basin Eocene) fossils commissioned
by Lamarck: a tool to understand how he coped with a rapidly changing science of nature
9.50 - 10.10 Maddalena NAPOLITANI, «Réunir à une belle exécution artistique une grande véracité géologique »:
the painted decoration of the École des Mines of Paris during the 1850s
10.10 - 10.30 Simon NATHAN, The photography of Alexander McKay and Lloyd Homer: recording the geology and
landscapes of mountainous New Zealand
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break
Scientific Session: General contributions on the History of Geology - 3
Chair:
11.00 - 11.20 Pietro Daniel OMODEO, Geoenvironmental Management in Renaissance Venice: When A Galilean
Mathematician Tried to Solve the Hydrogeological Problems of the Lagoon
11.20 - 11.40 Eugenija RUDNICKAITĖ, The most prominent scientists who spread the geological knowledge at the
very beginning of the history of Vilnius University
11.40 - 12.00 Barbara MOHR, Teaching geosciences from the 19th century on in central Europe and its influence on
society
12.00 - 12.20 Maria Margaret LOPES, Paleontology for Oil. The Brazilian Geological and Mineralogical Survey’s
works, in the first decades of 20th century
12.20 - 12.40 Peter SCHIMKAT, Commemorating "Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie" (1991) - A Forgotten Modern Classic Revisited
12.40 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch at Sant'Abbondio Cloister - ground floor
14.00 - 18.00 Historical-Scientific Walking Tour in Como city center
(tour leaders: Luigina Vezzoli and Franz Livio)
18.00 - 18.45 Cocktail by Lake Como
19.00 - 20.00 Return to Varese by bus
Saturday 7th September
8.00 Departure by bus to Somma Lombardo from the parking in front of the racecourse Ippodromo Le Bettole,
viale Ippodromo, Varese
Salone d’Onore, Castello Visconti di San Vito, Piazza Carlo Ermes Visconti, Somma Lombardo
Scientific Session: Honouring the legacy of Nicoletta Morello
Chair: Ezio VACCARI
9.00 - 9.10 Introduction
9.10 - 9.30 Ezio VACCARI, Nicoletta Morello and the history of geology
in Italy
9.30 - 9.50 Claudine COHEN, Early modern Earth theories and scenarios of Human origins
9.50 - 10.10 Luca CIANCIO, “In centro terrae est Sol centralis”. The debate between Naudé, Peiresc and Gassendi
around volcanic fires (1631-1649)
10.10 - 10.30 Silvia FIGUEIRÔA, Nerée Boubée (1806 - 1862), an activist for communication in the geological
sciences
10.30 - 10.50 Claudia PRINCIPE, The contribution of the “Riunioni degli Scienziati Italiani" (Congresses of Italian
Scientist) to the circulation of the Geological Ideas, and as part of the process of unification of Italy
10.50 - 11.10 Discussion
11.10 - 11.25 Coffee break
Scientific Session: History of the Earth Sciences in Mountain Environment - 3
Chair: Barry COOPER
11.25 - 11.45 Norman HENNIGES, Glacier Men: Albrecht Penck, Eduard Brückner and the experience of Quaternary
fieldwork in the Alps and the Alpine Foreland, c. 1900
11.45 - 12.05 Maria CONFORTI, The volcano and the sea: discussions on the role of waters in eruptions in Italy in the
17th century
12.05 - 12.25 Andrea CANDELA, Visualising the theory of the Alps: the first geological map of the Western Lombard
Prealps by Christian Leopold von Buch (1829)
12.25 - 12.45 Discussion and INHIGEO 2019 Best Poster Award to a young scholar
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 15.45 Visit to the Visconti di San Vito Castle
15.45 - 16.45 Visit to Geodetic Point of Somma Lombardo
16.45 - 17.45 Return to Varese by bus
17.45 - 19.45 Visit to the Valganna Waterfall and Caves
20.00 - 22.30 Conference dinner at the Grotte di Valganna
22.30 - 22.45 Return to Varese city center by bus
Sunday 8th September - Thursday 12th September
Post-Meeting Field Trip
The INHIGEO 2019 Field Trip Guidebook will be included in the conference bag.