Knowledge in a Box - How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production

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Knowledge in a Box - How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production

Veranstalter
Susanne Bauer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Martina Schlünder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Veranstaltungsort
Kavala Municipal Tobacco Warehouse-Tobacco Worker Square (Dimotiki Kapnapothiki-Plateia Kapnergati)
Ort
Kavala, Greece
Land
Greece
Vom - Bis
26.07.2012 - 29.07.2012
Website
http://knowledgeinabox.ntua.gr
Von
Susanne Bauer, Institute for Advanced Studies IAS-STS, TU Graz

Boxes have always supported the significance of the objects they contained, allowing specific activities to arise. In the hands of natural historians and collectors, boxes functioned as a means of organizing their knowledge throughout the eighteenth century. In the late nineteenth century the box became the pharmacist’s laboratory and a device for standardizing and controlling dosage of oral remedies.

In the twentieth century radiotherapy the box was elevated to multifunctional tool working as a memory aid to forgetful patients or as “knowledge packages” that predetermined dosages, included equipment, and ready-made radium applicators.

Late twentieth century biomedical scientists store tissue samples in large-scale biobanks, where samples contained in straws are placed in vials, then the vials in boxes which in turn are stacked up in "elevators". This storage system facilitates retrieval with barcodes indexing each individual sample so that additional variables can be retrieved from a database.

The box embodies the knowledge that goes into the chemical laboratory and its function; it classifies objects into collections of natural history; it meaningfully orders letters in a printer’s composition or painting equipment for the artist’ convenience; it standardizes pharmaceutical dosage forms and allows pharmacists to control the production and consumption of their remedies; in the commercial world it misleads or informs customers; it persuades consumers for the integrity of the product that they enclose; it hides the identity of the object(s) that contains, it shapes professional identities and is essential for mobilizing, transporting, accumulating and circulating materials and the knowledge they produce and embody.

We do understand matter and materiality not as given, solid, continuous and stable but rather as something being done, performed, shaped and embedded in practices. This is why they examine closer how bottles and boxes themselves materialize differently in a set of diverse practices.

In this conference we welcome innovative understandings of the role that boxes and containers have historically played and continue to play in technology, medicine and science. We see the workshop as contributing to an ongoing interest in science and technology studies on the importance of mundane things in scientific practice and technological innovations.

Programm

Thursday 26 July 2012

9:00-9:30 Official opening by the Mayor of the City

Producing Ontologies

9:30-10:00 Cheng, Yi-Ping. Lancaster University
The Flow and Storage of Things in Taiwanese’s Households: Things and Their Containers

10:00-10:30 Razzall, Lucy. University of Cambridge
Furnishing the House, Furnishing the Mind: Early Modern Literary and Material Cultures of Containment

10:30-11:00 Hakim, Lina. The London Consortium
The Radiometer’s Glass Bulb

11:00-11:30 Break

Materiality- Wood

11:30-12:00 Bowry, Stephanie. University of Leicester
‘A World of Wonders in one Closet Shut’:
The Construction and Compression of Knowledge in the Miniature Curiosity Cabinet of the Seventeenth Century

12:00-12:30 Bernasconi, Gianenrico. University of Applied Science of South Switzerland-Lugano
Collections in Book Form: the Symbolism and Technique of a Container

12:30-13:00 Goff, Alice. University of California, Berkeley
Containing the Trees: The Schildbach Wood Library and the Eighteenth Century Box

13:00-17:30 Lunch Break

Performing Boxes

17:30-18:00 Drakopoulou, Konstantina. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Palioura, Mirka. University of Ioannina
Inside Boxes – Beyond Borders:
Female Contemporary Artists of the Greek Scene

18:30-19:00 Pollack, Julia and Bonnie Mak. University of Illinois
A Librarian Makes a Box

19:30-20:00 Steidl, Katharina. Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Ackermann’s Photogenic Drawing Box and the Conception of Photography

Friday, 27 July 2012

Consuming

9:30-10:00 Yagou, Artemis. Deutsches Museum, Munich/Vrije University, Amsterdam
Packaging Playful Technology: Boxes for Technical Toys in the Collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich

10:00-10:30 Kocabiyik, Elif İzmir. İzmir University of Economics
Aren Kurtgözü. İzmir University of Economics
Knowledge as a Box: The “National” as Revealed Through a Reading of Turkish Cigarette Packages

10:30-11:00 Wenping Xue. University of Chicago
The Cultural Consequences of Boxes

11:00-11:30 Break

Circulating

11:30-12:00 Carey, Juliet. Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection)
Edmond de Rothschild’s Boxes

12:00-12:30 Endo, Hanako. Jissen Women’s University, Tokyo,
Shakespeare and Tudor Medicine Chests

12:30-13:00 Break

13:00-13:30 Hammel, Tanja. University of Basel
Botanical Knowledge in a Parcel

13:30-14:00 Pettersson, Ylwa and Kandastar, Razia Asad. Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala
The Travels of Folke Linder: As Traced by his Microscope Box

14:00-17:30 Lunch break

17:30-18:30 Open Space:
Box Exhibit
Pit Arens, Susanne Bauer, Christine Hanke, Martina Schlünder: Installation "Fleck-Kraft-Regler"

18:30-19:00 Break

Keynote speaker
19:00 Baltas, Aristides National Technical University of Athens
What is a Box? Philosophical Perspectives on Mundane Objects

21:00 Dinner at Hotel Galaxy

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Materiality-Glass

9:30-10:00 Espahangizi, Kijan. ETH & University of Zurich
„Only the best packed in glass....“ – A Historical Case Study on the Containment of Modern Techno-Scientific Objects, 1900-1935

10:00-10:30 Palioura, Mirka. University of Ioannina
Pyrpili, Spyridoula. Ministry of Education
Vouleli, Myrto. Historical Archives / National Bank of Greece
Photographic Glass Plates Negatives’ Boxes: Guarding the Memory

10:30-11:00 Break

Ordering

11:00-11:30 Mechler, Ulrich. Medizin und Pharmaziehistorische Sammlung Uni Kiel
Lymph Nodes in Folders – an Experimental System in Pathological Borderlands

11:30-12:00 Day, Deanna. University of Pennsylvania
Mirroring the Body: A Social History of the Medicine Cabinet

12:00-12:30 Break

12:30-13:00 Rentetzi, Maria. National Technical University of Athens
Calibrating Radiotherapy Equipment: Sending TLD’s in Postal Boxes

13:00-17:30 Lunch Break

Hiding-Displaying

17:30-18:00 Spencer, Justina. University of Oxford
Thinking Inside of the Box: 17th Century Dutch Perspective Boxes and Perspectival Illusion

18:00-18:30 Darmstädter, Beatrix. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Hidden Information – The Cases for Woodwind Instruments in the Renaissance and Early Baroque

18:30-19:00 Break

19:30-20:00 Smith, Helen. University of York
‘Outside the Box’: Domestic Practice, Display, and Containment in Early Modern England

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Reinventing

9:30-10:00 D’Eredità, Astrid. Italian National Association of Archaeologists
From Everyday Life to the Finds: an Essay on the Use of Boxes in Archaeology

10:00-10:30 Galiniki, Styliana. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Akrivopoulou, Eleftheria. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Archaeology and Cigarettes: The Packs of Cigarettes as Occasional Packaging Materials of Archaeological Findings

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30 Bell, Jameson Kısmet. Doğuş University, Istanbul
Contours of the Soul: Transforming the Containers of the Mind into Ventricles of the Brain in 16th Century Europe

11:30-12:00 Ma, Li. Nesna University College, Norway
From Tokens in Envelopes to Clay Tablets: On The Early development of Writing, Counting and Mathematics

12:00-13:30 Wrap-up
Susanne Bauer, Maria Rentetzi, Martina Schlünder

Kontakt

Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens (mrentetz(at)vt.edu)
Susanne Bauer, Goethe University Frankfurt (bauer@soz.uni-frankfurt.de)
Martina Schlünder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (mschluender(at)mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)

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