Dr. Moritz von Brescius
Wednesday 16 October 2019
09.15-09.30
Opening remarks: Moritz von Brescius
09.30-12.30
Panel I: The art of timing: plant transfers and the management of plantation economies
Ulrike Kirchberger (Kassel): The Temporalities of Species Transfer across the Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Moritz von Brescius (Bern): Unlocking the Tropics: Gustav Mann, Rubber and the Timing of British Resource Imperialism, 1859–1904
Andreas Bolte (Freiburg): Temporal practices of plantation economy in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, ca. 1900–1940
12.30-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-16.00
Panel II: Visualising global trade in the age of empire
Ulrich Päßler (Berlin): A Political Economy of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold
Iris Schröder (Erfurt): Mapping the Riches of the Earth: Plants, Infrastructure and Trade, and the Rise of Economic Cartography in the Early 20th Century
16.15-17:45
Keynote lecture: Harry Liebersohn (Berlin/Illinois):
Global collections: Kensington (London) and the World
(Together with the ‘Forschungscolloquium nach 1800’, Unitobler, Room F 006)
Conference Dinner
Thursday 17 October 2019
09.15-11.15
Panel III: Global commodities: trade, manufacturing and consumption
Rahul Markovits (Paris): Bubble or failed monopolistic strategy? The French Indies’ Company and the selling of North-American ginseng in Canton around 1750
Samuel Eleazar-Wendt (Frankfurt/Oder): Rubber Goods in Health:
C. Müller Gummiwaren Berlin, 1875-1945
11.15-11.30
COFFEE/TEA
11:30-12.30
Panel IV: Objects in motion
Caroline Cornish (London): Accumulate to circulate: cultures of object exchange in late nineteenth-century museums
12:30-13:15
Concluding Discussion
Final comments: Peter-Paul Bänziger (Basel)