Wednesday, March 20

18:30Welcome & Introduction at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research, lecture hall (Erbertstraße 1, 07743 Jena)

19:00Opening Lecture by Julia Voss (Deutsches Historisches Museum)
Ernst Haeckel. Ein Meister aus Deutschland

Thursday, March 21Volkshaus, Raum Grete Unrein

I New Perspectives on Haeckel’s Scientific Concepts, Objects & Practices
Chair: Bernhard Kleeberg, Universität Erfurt

09:30 – 10:15Caroline Angleraux (Université de Tours)
Monera and Biological Simplicity

10:15 – 11:00Katharina Steiner (Université de Genève)
Changing Audiences, Changing Meanings: Haeckel’s Copepods and Biology’s Popular Culture

11:30 – 12:15Lynn K. Nyhart (University of Wisconsin)
Situating Haeckel’s Arabische Korallen

12:15 – 13:00Petra Löffler (Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg)
Colonial Collecting: Haeckel’s Travels in Colonized Land

II Haeckel in the History of Secularism and Socialist Movements
Chair: Laura Bossi, Paris

15:00 – 15:45John Vivian (Jena)
Haeckel and the ‘Science and Secularism’ Debates in England in the early 1880s

15:45 – 16:30Todd Weir (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
The Left Haeckelians: Feminist and Socialist Monism 1890 to 1933

17:00 – 17:45Whitney A. Baumann (Florida International University)
Ernst Haeckel, Romantic Science, and the New Materialisms

III Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Edition of Letters
Project of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, hosted by the German National Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina
Chair: Rainer Godel, Leopoldina

17:45 – 19:15Thomas Bach, Jörn Bohr, Roman Göbel and Claudia Taszus (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Presentation of the Ernst Haeckel Correspondence Project

Friday, March 22 Volkshaus, Raum Grete Unrein

IV Exploring Haeckel’s Racism & Colonialism
Chair: Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Cambridge

09:00 – 09:45SanderGliboff (Indiana University)
What Kind of a Racist was Ernst Haeckel?

09:45 – 10:30Marianne Sommer (Universität Luzern)
Disentangling Ernst Haeckel’s «Ahnen-Reihe des Menschen» (Human Ancestral Line)

11:00 – 11:45Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
On Being a Post-Colonial at the Heyday of Colonialism: Ernst Haeckel’s Student Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay

V Exploring Haeckel’s Indische Reisebriefe
Chair: Isabella Engberg, University of Aberdeen

11:45 – 12:30Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, Brooklyn)
Race and Place: Ernst Haeckel's Wanderbilder and Indische Reisebriefe

14:00 – 14:45Heiner Stahl (Universität Siegen)
Haeckel - Adventurer, Explorer and Scientist who shapes the Visual Knowledge of Colonial Experience

14:45 – 15:30Philipp Sperner (Wien)
Ernst Haeckel in India

16:00 – 17:00Ernst Haeckel Postcolonial: Panel Discussion

The workshop is free of charge. Please register by March 6 at: ernsthaeckelhaus@uni-jena.de