Elena Lisitsyna participated in an international conference in Halle (Saale)

The project member Elena Lisitsyna took part in the conference "Science, Politics and Piety: New Research on Reciprocal Relations between
Halle and Russia in the Long Eighteenth Century", which was held on-line on October 8–9 by Frankesche Stiftungen in Halle (Saale), Germany 

The conference "Science, Politics and Piety: New Research on Reciprocal Relations between Halle and Russia in the Long Eighteenth Century" was held as an annual Russian-German meeting organized in Halle by the Francke Foundations, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Georg-Wilhelm-Steller-Society. This year's meeting was devoted to the contacts between Halle and St. Petersburg in the 18th century and their international context. The contribution by Elena Lisitsyna was focused on the problems of transfer of medical and scientific research practices on the example of medical-geographical research by the Prussian doctor J.J. Lerche in the Russian Empire (1731-1780). Based on the materials of little-known texts by Lerche, namely his meteorological tables and the essay on Russian endemic diseases, the author considered Lerche's research activities as one of the earliest experiences of imperial medical description, similar to scientific narratives by naturalists of the 18th century. The medical perspective included diseases in the scientific set of the local characteristics for the imperial regions, together with flora and fauna