Programme
Monday, 24.07.2017
3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Arrival and registration at the Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte
4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.:
Introducing the Zentrale Kustodie and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Brief round of Introductions of all Participants Guided Tour of the Historic Observatory
6.15 p.m.:
James Delbourgo: Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Keynote lecture)
7.30 p.m.:
Opening Dinner / Buffet
Tuesday, 25.07.2017
The Natural Lives of Cultural Things: Collecting Materials, Environments and Categories // James Delbourgo
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Edwin Rose: Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and the Library of the Endeavour, 1768-1771
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea
11.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Sarah Pickman: Materializing the Extreme Environment
12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Lachlan Fleetwood: Altitude, Science and Intermediaries in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch
2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Samaa Elimam: Truth in Stone: Tracking a Project of Scale in the Minerals of the Description de l'Egypte
3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Regina Sarreiter: The epistemic lives of an ethnological collection between South Africa, Germany and Tanzania
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea
4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection
5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.:
Tour Ethnographic Collection
7.00 p.m.:
Dinner at Bistro "Deutsches Theater" (Theaterplatz 11, 37073 Göttingen)
Wednesday, 26.07.2017
Drawing and Inscription as Practices of Mobilisation and Insight // Joachim Rees
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Didi van Trijp: On Stranger Tides: Marine Exotica and The Question of Colour
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea
11.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Tabea Braun: Collecting landscapes - Charles Gore's travel albums, 1771 - 1807
12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Ben Pollitt: 'Constellations of Mobility' in the Collection and Display of Cook-Related Akua Hulu Manu in the Long Nineteenth Century
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch
2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Ardeta Gjikola: Taste at a Distance: How Lord Elgin Came to Value the Parthenon Sculptures
3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Mary McMahon: Picturing the Antipodes: race, Image and empire in 19th-century Britain
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea
4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection
5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Hands on Research Session at the Cast Collection of Antique Sculptures
Lola Sanchez-Jauregui: Plaster Casts as objects of enquiry: Artistic making and scholarship
7.30 p.m.:
Dinner at "Café Botanik" (Untere Karspüle 1b, 37073 Göttingen)
Thursday, 27.07.2017
Imperial Infrastructures and Scientific Travel as a Collaborative Endeavour // Bernhard C. Schär
9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Anna Toledano: Collecting el Campo: The Impact of José Longinos on North American Nature
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea
11.00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.:
Alison Bennett: Explorations through Kenya: collecting, categorizing and colonizing c.1880 - 1895
12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Catarina Madruga: Naturalists, Collectors, and Explorers in 19th century Portuguese Africa
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch
2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Robbert Striekwold: A fish by any other name. What the orphaned collection of Kuhl & van Hasselt might teach us about 19th century natural history
3.00 p.m.- 4.00 p.m.:
William Scates Frances: Nineteenth Century Cyborg - a Cognitive History of the United States Exploratory Expedition, 1838-1842
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea
4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection
5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.:
Tour Museum of Zoology
7.00 p.m.:
Dinner at "Bullerjahn" (Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen)
Friday, 28.07.2017
Scientific Travels and the Spaces and People in-between // Vanessa Smith
8.30 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.
Tour Herbarium
9.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m.:
Transfer to the Historical Observatory
10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory statement
10.30 a.m. - 11.30 p.m.:
Patrick Anthony: The Discovery of the Underground: Mining and the Search for a Primordial Fatherland in Enlightenment Germany
11.30 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea
12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Julian zur Lage: A World in Books. Global Knowledge in 18th Century Libraries
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch
2.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Joy Slappnig: The Indigenous map: native Information, ethnographic object, artefact of encounter
3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Mirjam Hähnle: The Extraordinary and the Common: Historical and Anthropological Gaze in the Royal Danish Expedition
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea
4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.:
Taylor Moore: Amulet Tales: Tracing Economies of Magic and Healing in Interwar Ethnographic Collections
5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.:
Conclusion and Final Discussion
7.00 p.m. Dinner at "Gaudi" (Rote Straße 16, 37073 Göttingen)
Saturday, 29.07.2017
10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Optional Tour of the Geoscience Museum // Collection of Mathematical Models and Instruments