Wednesday, 25th of July
19:00 (optional) Dinner
Thursday, 26th of July
1st Session, chair: Alix Cooper
9:00-9:15 “Wissens-Dinge”: a cooperation between Erfurt/ Gotha, Göttingen und Bremen/ Bremerhaven (Iris Schröder)
9:15-9:30 Introduction to the workshop topic (Jens Ruppenthal/Ruth Schilling)
9:30-10:15 Archives of Natural History Revisited (Franziska Torma)
10:15-11:00 Global Archives: The Material Traces of Mobility in Early Modern Ships (Ruth Schilling)
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
2nd session, chair: Iris Schröder
11:15-11:45 The Ship Transport and Conservation Introduction of Chimpanzees to Rubando Island (1966): Politics of Wildlife in the Decolonization of East Africa (Felix Schürmann)
11:45-12:30 Carrying and Collecting on the Australia Passage of the SS Great Britain. Zoology, Conchology and Infestation (James Boyd)
12:30-13:00 First round of general discussion
13:00-13:45 Lunch
3rd session, chair: Lynn Nyhart
13:45-14:30 Actors and Transport Routes – The Columbian Exchange and the Transfer of Plants and Animals across the Sea (Thomas Eisentraut)
14:30-15:15 Delivered Ex Ship: Transportation of Natural History Objects and their Distribution via Port Cities (Talip Törün)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
4th session, chair: Wolfgang Struck
15:45-16:30 Ecological Networks and Transfers between Australia, South Asia and Africa, 1850-1920 (Ulrike Kirchberger)
16:30-17:15 Globalised Stowaways: Ships and Marine Biodiversity in the Anthropocene (Jens Ruppenthal)
17:15-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Final discussion
20:00 Conference dinner
Friday, 27th of July
10:00-12:00 Guided tour through the exhibition “Europe and the Sea” at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Thomas Eisentraut)