Friday/Freitag, 6 November 2015
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome Greetings / Begrüßung
MARTIN VAN GELDEREN and JÜRGEN SCHLUMBOHM
Panel/Sektion 1:
The Expedition and its Background / Die Expedition und ihr Hintergrund,
Chair/Moderation: JÜRGEN SCHLUMBOHM (GÖTTINGEN)
09:15 – 10:15
LAWRENCE J. BAACK (BERKELEY, CA)
Polymaths and Empiricists: The University in Goettingen and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia, 1753-1778
10:15 – 11:15
AVI LIFSCHITZ (LONDON)
From ancient Hebrew to modern Arabia: J. D. Michaelis's expedition plans and his oriental scholarship
11:15 – 11:45
Refreshments / Pause
11:45 – 12:45
MICHAEL HARBSMEIER (COPENHAGEN)
What more do we need to know about Carsten Niebuhr and his Expedition?
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch / Mittagspause
Panel/Sektion 2:
Peter Forsskål: Radical Enlightenment and Natural History /
Peter Forsskål: radikaler Aufklärer und Naturforscher
Chair/Moderation: DAVID GOLDBERG, LONDON
13:45 – 14:45
DOMINIK HÜNNIGER (GÖTTINGEN)
Shells, Spiders and other Insects: Peter Forsskål and 18th Century Natural History
14:45 – 15:45
ERE NOKKALA (HELSINKI/ GÖTTINGEN)
Radical Enlightener and Linne's Apostle? Peter Forsskål in Swedish and International Historiography
Saturday/Samstag 7 November 2015
Panel/Sektion 3:
Carsten Niebuhr: Astronomy, Ethnography, Oriental Studies
Carsten Niebuhr: Astronomie, Ethnographie, Orientwissenschaften
Chair/Moderation: MARTIN GIERL (GÖTTINGEN)
09:30 – 10:30
ANNE HASLUND HANSEN (COPENHAGEN):
Agents and Artefacts: Collecting during the Arabian Voyage 1761-1767
10:30 – 11:30
MICHEL-PIERRE DETALLE (PARIS):
Carsten Niebuhr, Astronom, Kartograph und Zeichner-Kopist
11:30 – 12:00
Refreshments / Pause
12:00 – 13:00
JOSEF WIESEHÖFER (KIEL):
Carsten Niebuhr and Ancient Iran