Convenors:
Dr. Marie Luisa Allemeyer (Zentrale Kustodie, University of Göttingen)Dr. Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
Christian Vogel (Zentrale Kustodie, University of Göttingen)
Experts/Speakers:
Professor James Delbourgo (Rutgers University)Professor Joachim Rees (Freie Universität Berlin)
Dr. Bernhard C. Schär (ETH Zürich)
Dr. Lola Sanchez-Jauregui (University of Glasgow)
Professor Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney)
Participants:
- Anthony, Patrick (Vanderbilt University):
Science and the Subterranean: Mining, Travel, and Natural History in the Time of Humboldt, ca. 1760-1860 - Bennet, Alison (UCL and the British Museum):
Collecting in East Africa: from the end of exploration to colonisation and settlement - Braun, Tabea (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):
Charles Gores travel albums, 1771-1807. Configuration and dynamics - Elimam, Samaa (Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences):
Truth in Stone: Tracking a Project of Scale in the Minerals of the Description de l'Egypte - Fleetwood, Lachland (University of Cambridge):
Altitude, Science and Intermediaries in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850 - Scates Franes, Wiliam (The Austalian National University):
Dissonance on the Edge of American Empire: the Wilkes Expedition - Gjikola, Ardeta (Harvard University):
The Elgin Marbles and the Objectivity of Aesthetic Taste - Hähnle, Mirjam (Universität Basel):
Exploring the Orient, Narrating the Self. The Expedition to Arabia Felix 1761 - 1767 - zur Lage, Julian (Universität Osnabrück):
A World in Books. Global Knowledge in 18th Century Libraries - Madruga, Catarina (Universidade de Lisboa):
Taxonomy and Empire. The zoological collections of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (1862-1900) - McMahon, Mary (University of London and the British Museum):
Picturing the Antipodes: race, image and empire in 19th-century Britain - Moore,Taylor (Rutgers University):
Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semi-colonial Egypt (1876-1960) - Pickman, Sarah M. (Yale University):
Materializing the Extreme Environment - Pollitt, Ben (University College London):
The "Atlas" Unbound: the exploratory art of John Webber - Rose, Edwin (University of Cambridge):
From Sir Hans Sloane to Sir Joseph Banks: The Creation and Use of Private Libraries in relation to the practice of natural history, 1740-1830 - Sarreiter, Regina (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient):
The Epistemic Lives of an Ethnological Collection between South Africa, Germany and Tanzania - Slappnig, Joy (University of London):
The indigenous map: native information, ethnographic object, artefact of encounter - Striekwold, Robbert J. (Leiden University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center):
Collection Building: Ichthyology in the Netherlands 1820-1880 - Toledano, Anna (Stanford University):
Cabinets of Curiosity in 18th-century Spanish America - van Trijp, Didi (Leiden University):
Enlightened Fish Books: A New History of Eighteenth-Century Ichthyology (1686-1828)