Programme Summer School: Collecting and the Knowledge of Objects


Monday, 5th September 2016

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Arrival and registration at the Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte (on the map)

4.00 - 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.: Public Keynote, Kim Sloan: "Turning the King's Library into the Enlightenment Gallery - thirteen years on"

8:00 p.m.: Buffet


Tuesday, 6th September

From encyclopaedic to specialised collecting: Practices of collecting and exhibiting, the role of collectors and things // Expert: Kim Sloan

9.00 - 09.30 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement

9.30 - 10.30 a.m.: Twyla Ruby: G.F. Viganis, first professor of chemistry at Cambridge and his collection of chemical substances

10.30 - 11.00 a.m: Coffee / Tea

11.00 - 12.00 a.m.: Robbert J. Striekwold: Collection Building: Ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th Century (1760-1880)

12.00 - 13.00 p.m.: Anna Toledano: Indefatigable Azara: A Spanish Naturalist in South America

1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 p.m.: Wenrui Zhao: Network of collecting and knowing: the mineral specimen in the Dresden Kunstkammer

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Kit Heintzmann: A Cabinet of the Ordinary: Domesticating Veterinary Medicine, 1766-1796

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.: Coffee and Cake

4.30 - 5.00 p.m.: Transfer to the collection

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.: Tour Ethnographic Collection

6.30 p.m.: Dinner at Nudelhaus (Rote Straße 13, 37073 Göttingen)


Wednesday, 7th September 2016

"Putting nature in a box." The material order of things: shelves, cabinets, boxes and other furniture of order // Expert: Maria Rentetzi

8.30 - 09.00 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement

9.00 - 10.00 a.m.: Dorit Brixius: Pierre Poivre and the Acquisition of Spices in the Indo-Pacific (1768-1772)

10.00 - 10.30 a.m: Coffee / Tea

10.30 - 11.30 a.m.: Laia Portet I Codina: Placing the exotic in Paris. Pharmacological knowledge, print and collection by the turn of the 18th century

11.30 - 12.30 p.m.: Dorothée Rusque: Natural history collections and observations in the 18th Century. The dialogue between objects in Jean Hermann's cabinet

12.30 - 1.30 p.m.: Lunch

1.30 - 2.30 p.m.: Anna Svensson: Exploring Utopia and Universal Order Through the History of Botanical Collections

2.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Meira Gold: Collecting Egypt through the Victorian Armchair

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Coffee and Cake

4.0 - 4.30 p.m.: Transfer to the collection

4.30 - 5.30 p.m.: Tour collection of medical history

5.30 - 6.00 p.m.: Transfer to Observatory

6.15 p.m.: Public Keynote, Emma Spary: "The Crystal State: Parisian Collectors and Mineral Aesthetics in the Late Eighteenth Century"

7.30 p.m.: Dinner at Planea (Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen)/ La Locanda (Reinhäuser Landstraße 22, 37083 Göttingen)


Thursday, 8th September 2016

Networks, Actors and Objects // Expert: Emma Spary

8.30 - 09.00 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement

9.00 - 10.00 a.m.: Alex Partridge: Reassembling the "Copper Eskimo"

10.00 - 10.30 a.m: Coffee / Tea

10.30 - 11.30 a.m.: Annekathrin Krieger: Global knowledge in the German Empire: Apes, biology and the differentiation of zoology

11.30 - 12.30 p.m.: Anne MacKinney: Registering nature: writing practices in the collection and commerce of natural objects in Berlin, 1770-1850

12.30 - 1.30 p.m.: Lunch

1.30 - 2.30 p.m.: Šebestián Kroupa: Ex epistulils Philippinensibus: Georg Joseph Kamel SJ (1661-1706) and his correspondence network

2.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Didi van Trijp: Enlightened Fish Books: A New History of Eighteenth-Century Ichthyology (1686-1828)

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Coffee and Cake

4.0 - 4.30 p.m.: Transfer to the collection

4.30 - 5.30 p.m.: Tour Herbarium/ Pharmacognostic collection

5.30 - 6.00 p.m.: Transfer to Zentrale Kustodie (on the map)

6.15 p.m.: Book presentation: Anne Mariss: "A world of new things" Praktiken der Naturgeschichte bei Johann Reinhold Forster [Johann Reinhold Forster and the practices of Natural History], Frankfurt/Main 2015.

7.30 p.m.: Dinner at Bullerjahn (Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen)


Friday, 9th September 2016

The long road to the image: strategies of visualisation in collections // Expert: Stephanie Moser

9.00 - 09.30 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement

9.30 - 10.30 a.m.: Alicia Hughes: William Hunter: Anatomist to the Artists

10.30 - 11.00 a.m: Coffee / Tea

11.00 - 12.00 a.m.: Rees Arnott-Davies: Figures, Letters, &c.': approaching knowledge through image and text in Jan van Rymsdyk's Museum Britannicum

12.00 - 13.00 p.m.: Yotam Tsal: From Nature to Natural History: The Production of "Dead Birds" in the 18th Century Atlantic World

1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 p.m.: Deborah S. Dubald: The many lives of the Lapeyrouse collection in Toulouse, 1780-1865

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Anja Sattelmacher: From model to slide - and back. The collection of models and lantern slides at the Göttingen mathematical Institute

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.: Coffee and Cake

4.30 - 5.00 p.m.: Conclusion and final discussion

6.00 p.m.: Dinner at Theatercafe (Theaterplatz 11, 37073 Göttingen)

8.00 p.m.: Performance by the actor Götz Lautenbach on Baron von Asch in the Ethnographic collection


Saturday, 10th September 2016

10.00 to 11 .00 a.m.: Optional tour of the plaster cast collection, application on Monday