7th November 2016
09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Welcome greetings of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg / Introduction
09:30 – 10:15 Avi Lifschitz, London
From Göttingen to Sri Lanka: Theology and the Translational Exchange of Knowledge on Elephant Mating
10:15 – 11.00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:45 Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan/Göttingen
Christoph Meiners and the Socio-Erotic Theory of Universal History
11:45 – 12:30 Nic Miller, Göttingen
From the 'Great Map of Debauchery' to Histories of Sex: Synthesizing Global Sexual Difference during the Enlightenment
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Karen Hollewand, Oxford
Use the Gift that Nature has given: Ideas on Sexual Liberty in the Studies of Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
14:15 – 15:00 Mara van der Lugt, Göttingen
Bayle on Sex: Euphemism, Transgression and Obscenity in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696-1702)
15:00 – 15.30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:15 Darren Wagner, Montreal
Hard Evidence: Demonstrating Sexual Economy Using Genital Anatomy
16:15 – 17:00 Dominik Hünniger, Göttingen
“Bees do it” – Understanding Animal Reproduction in 18th Century European Entomology
18:30 Dinner
8th November 2016
09:30 – 10:15 Andrew Wells, Göttingen
Venus Inferred: Race, Reproduction, and the Reception of Maupertuis’ Ideas in Great Britain, c.1740-c.1840
10:15 – 11.00 Silvia Sebastiani, Paris
At tea with Mme Chimpanzee in 1730s London: “The greatest Curiosity in the known world”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:15 Serkan Delice, London
The Janissaries and Their Bedfellows: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Ottoman
12:15 – 13:00 Nida Sajid, Göttingen
Trading Lewdness from Murshidabad to London: Gender, Commerce and the Curious Case of Munni Begum
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Inger Leemans, Amsterdam
The Economics of Desire. The Interrelation of Sex and Trade around 1700
14:45 – 15:30 Bill Bell, Cardiff / Göttingen
Venus in the Stocks: The Humble Representation of the Unspeakable Mr Curll
15:30 – 16.00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Visit to the Accouchierhaus / Historic Obstetrics Clinic
20:00 Dinner