Thursday, 7th December
13:00 – 13:15 DOMINIK HÜNNIGER, GÖTTINGEN
Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: Mapping and Prospecting
Chair: JOANNA WHARTON, GÖTTINGEN
13:15 – 14:00 HELEN COWIE, YORK: Silk of the Andes: studying, exploiting and conserving the Peruvian vicuna
14:00 – 14:45 VICTORIA PICKERING, LONDON: Mapping a botanical collection: natural history knowledge from around the world in the early eighteenth century
14:45– 15:15 coffee/tea break
15:15 – 16:00 RACHEL KOROLOFF, GÖTTINGEN: Local natures, global gardens: Kamchatka, Astrakhan’, St. Petersburg
16:30 – 18:00 Visit to the Goettingen Herbarium
18:15 – 19:00 LISSA ROBERTS, TWENTE: Public Keynote: The infrastructures of natural history, Auditorium Hörsaal, Weender Str. 2
Friday, 8th December
Session 2: Surveying and Perceiving
Chair: SIMONA BOSCANI LEONI, BERN
09:30 – 10:15 OUSMANE SEYDI, BASEL: Michel Adanson in Senegal (1749-1753). Survey of the daily activities of a naturalist in an African environment
10:15 – 11:00 MINAKSHI MENON, BERLIN: Surveying the State: Francis Buchanan’s A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar (1807)
11:00 – 11:30 coffee/tea break
11:30 – 12:15 SAHAR BAZAZZ, WORCESTER, MA: From the Yemeni Highlands to the Shores of the Red Sea: The Museum d'Histoire Naturelle's Mission to Arabia (1836-1839)
12:15 – 13:00 JON MATHIEU, LUZERN: Divergent perception: deserts and mountains in transition to modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Views of Nature’
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Inventing difference
Chair: DEMETRIUS EUDELL, MIDDLETOWN
14:00 – 14:45 BRUCE BUCHAN, BRISBANE: Scottish medical ethnography: colonial travel and the natural history of race, c. 1770-1805
14:45 – 15:30 LINDA ANDERSSON BURNETT, VÄXJÖ: Collecting, displaying and debating human difference: racial debates in Edinburgh around 1800
15:30 – 16:00 coffee/tea break
16:00 – 16:45 SUREKHA DAVIES, DANBURY, CT: Collecting artefacts, inventing Europe, and inventing the indigenous c.1800
Saturday, 9th December
Session 4: Networks and Methodologies
Chair: IVAN GASKELL, NEW YORK
09:30 – 11:00 ANNA TOLEDANO, MACKENZIE COOLEY, DUYGU YILDRIM, STANFORD: Mapping objects, mapping science: new methods of early modern natural history
11:00 – 11.30 coffee/tea break
11:30 – 12:15 MUNGO CAMPBELL, GLASGOW: ‘… so obviously useful’: cultural and scientific networks in late Enlightenment Scotland and the publication of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, 1814-1821
12:15 – 13:00 DOMINIK HÜNNIGER, GÖTTINGEN: A tale of five species. A relational approach to the global history of entomology, ca. 1760-1815
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 PHILIP JONES, ADELAIDE: The Australian Aboriginal ‘corroboree’ as a theatre of engagement, 1780s – 1820s
14:45 – 15:15 PRATIK CHAKRABARTI, MANCHESTER: Concluding comments