Monday, November 21, 2016
From 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:30–11:00 INTRODUCTION
9:30 Welcome Address
Ina Heumann, Holger Stoecker, Marco Tamborini, Mareike Vennen, Joint Research Project “Dinosaurs in Berlin”
10:00 Keynote Lecture I
Objects in Transit: Commodities and Communication
Jim Secord, University of Cambridge
11:00 Break
11:30–12:50 HIERARCHIES
Chair: Gerd Spittler, Universität Bayreuth
11:30 Hunting, Investigating, and Exhibiting Great Apes. On Working Conditions in Colonial Cameroon and the German Reich, 1890–1926
Britta Lange, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
12:10 Collecting Fossils in Colonial German East Africa. Work and Workers at the Tendaguru Excavation, 1909–1913
Holger Stoecker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
12:50 Lunch Break
14:00–16:00 GLOBALIZATION
Chair: Anke te Heesen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
14:00 The Journey of a Man with a Fish: The Life of a Han Dynasty Object in a South Africa Museum
Nicola Kritzinger, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
14:40 ‘A noble instrument for instruction’: Assembling International Collections in the Cambridge Zoological Museum, 1866–1910
Boris Jardine, University of Cambridge
15:20 Excavating at Kuumbi Limestone Cave: Regional and Global Links in East African Prehistory
Felix Chami, University of Dar es Salaam
16:00 Break
16:30–18:00 COMPETITION
Chair: Bärbel Küster, Technische Universität zu Berlin
16:30 Building Dioramas as Socialist Work: Cuban Corals at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, 1965–1975
Manuela Bauche, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
17:10 The Epistemology of Authenticity: Plaster Cast Reproductions in 19th Century Museums
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University, Providence
17:50 Catering at the Grimm-Zentrum
19:30–22:00 FILMWELTEN DES WISSENS
Knochenarbeit. Oder: Dinosauria museologica;
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Sauriersaal,
Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
9:00 INTRODUCTION
Irina Podgorny, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Barbara Göbel, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Preußischer Kulturbesitz
9:30 Keynote Lecture II
My Sloane Museum
James Delbourgo, Rutgers University
10:30 Break
11:00–13:00 MANAGEMENT
Chair: Jochen Hennig, Scientific Collections of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
11:00 Working on Photo-Objects: Photographs as Mobile Actors in Archeology, Ethnology, and Art History
Stefanie Klamm, Kunstbibliothek, Petra Wodke, Antikensammlung, both Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
11:40 Reconstructing the Puzzle: Argentine Theater and Literary Periodicals of the Early 20th Century – Piece by Piece
Peter Altekrüger, Christoph Müller, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
12:20 Belabouring the Catalogue: Classifi cation Work in the British Museum
Sebastian Felten, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Rebecca Kahn, King’s College London
13:00 Break
14:00–16:30 VALUATION
Chair: Anja Schwarz, Universität Potsdam
14:00 Transporting the Tropics: Collecting and Preserving the Victorian Botanical Empire
Elaine Ayers, Princeton University
14:40 The Rhino Horn in the 21st Century: Collecting, Storing, and (not) Displaying
Nicky Reeves, University of Glasgow
15:20 Break
15:40 Economies of Collecting, Transporting, Conserving and Exhibiting Natural History Objects in the Ottoman Natural
History Museum 1835–1850
Semih Çelik, European University Institute, Florence
16:20–17:00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Comments: Irina Podgorny, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Barbara Göbel, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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