Economies of Collections and the Value of Scientific Things

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Economies of Collections and the Value of Scientific Things

Veranstalter
Ina Heumann, PAN – Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Nils Güttler, Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt, Projekt "Globalisierung und lokales Wissen"
Veranstaltungsort
Rathaus / Bürgersaal, Hauptmarkt 1
Ort
Gotha
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
21.11.2013 - 22.11.2013
Deadline
10.11.2013
Website
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sammlung-perthes/projekte/globalisierung-und-lokales-wissen/
Von
Güttler, Nils

Scientific collecting is a process that mobilizes and generates social, economic, political, and scientific capital. The workshop focuses on economies of collections and the value systems associated with them. As such, it draws attention to questions concerning the management, house-keeping and ordering of knowledge within collections from the late 18th century to the present.

Historically, the objects of scientific study and sciences have always been connected through marketplaces and economies. Prior to public display, scientific things used to circulate between collectors, traders, owners, and institutions. Indeed, things acquire their unique value by means of circulation. How have cultural and epistemic values of objects been linked with economic infrastructures? How did the circulation of objects shape scientific debates and what was its impact on new disciplines and institutions? How can historians come to an integrative view on processes of ordering, presenting, and marketing?

Programm

Thursday, November 21, 2013

12:00 Registration

12:30 - 13:00
Welcome Address
Martin Mulsow
Director, Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt

Nils Güttler / Ina Heumann
Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt / PAN - Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

13:00 - 14:00
Ware + House = Warehouse
Monika Dommann, Universität Zürich

Break

14:20 - 16:40
S: Frogs, Fossils and Birds
Chair: Iris Schröder, Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt

14:20 - 15:00
The Value of Biodiversity in Contemporary Pharmaceutical and Biological Research
Klaus Angerer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

15:00 - 15:40
Exploiting and Exploring: The Oehningen Miocene Fossil Quarries
Thilo Habel, Abt. Sammlungen und Archive, ETH Zürich

Break

16:00 - 16:40
Maps and More: Theodor von Heuglin in Africa
Sven Ballenthin / Nils Güttler, Sammlung Perthes und Forschungszentrum Gotha

Guided Tour and Talk at the Perthes Collection in Erfurt (Sorbenweg 4)
Departure from Gotha Main Station at 17:32

18:15
Economies of a Collection: The Archive of the Perthes Publishing Company
Petra Weigel, Sammlung Perthes, Gotha

Dinner

Friday, November 22, 2013

9:00 – 9:45
Intervention
Estelle Blaschke, École cantonale d'art de Lausanne
Martha Fleming, The British Museum, London
Hans-Christoph Liess, TOPOI, Berlin

Break

10:00 – 12:00
M: Collectors, Trophies, and Models
Chair: Susanne Rau, Universität Erfurt

10:00 - 10:40
Collectors and Customers: Bird Collections and British Natural History Museums, 1890-1910
Jennifer Thomas, The Rothschild Archive, London

10:40 - 11:20
Hunting for Artificial Booties: The Feedback Effect of Modern Visual Media
Matthias Bruhn, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

11:20 - 12:00
The Value of Specimens: Anatomical Collections on the Medical Market around 1800
Thomas Schnalke, Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité

Lunch Break

Optional
12:30 - 13:15 Guided Tour Schloss Friedenstein

13:15 - 14:35
L: Colonialism and Maps
Chair: Stefanie Gänger, Universität Konstanz

13:15 - 13:55
“Bringing the World to Forest Hill”. The Colonial Economies of the Horniman Collection
Nora A. Pleßke, Universität Passau

13:55 - 14:35
The Geographical Institute in Weimar: Map Trade and Economies of Knowledge in 19th-Century Germany
Andreas Christoph, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Jena

Break

14:50 - 16:10
XL: Technologies and Bones
Chair: Ina Heumann, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

14:50 - 15:30
Economy vs. Use: The Modellkammer of the University of Göttingen in the 18th Century
Oliver Zauzig, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

15:30 - 16:10
Dealers in Old Bones: South American Fossil Mammals and the Emergence of Paleontology (1790-1850)
Irina Podgorny, Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar

Break

16:40 - 18:00
Final Session
Chair: Nils Güttler / Ina Heumann, Forschungszentrum Gotha / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

16:40 – 17:25
Intervention
Estelle Blaschke, École cantonale d'art de Lausanne
Martha Fleming, The British Museum, London
Hans-Christoph Liess, TOPOI, Berlin

17: 25 – 18:00
Final Discussion

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Conceptualised and organised by
Nils Güttler, Forschungszentrum Gotha, Project "Globalization and local knowledge", Universität Erfurt (Contact: +49-(0)361-7371726)
Ina Heumann, PAN - Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Contact: +49-(0)30-2093-8977)

The workshop is financed by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur of Thüringen.

Registration: pan@mfn-berlin.de

More information:

http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/forschung/pan-perspektiven-auf-natur/tagungen/nov-2013-sammlungsoekonomien/

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sammlung-perthes/projekte/globalisierung-und-lokales-wissen/

Kontakt

Nils Güttler

Forschungszentrum Gotha, Postfach 100561, 99855 Gotha
+49(0)361/7371726

nils.guettler@uni-erfurt.de

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sammlung-perthes/projekte/globalisierung-und-lokales-wissen/