Programm, Abstracts und Teilnehmer unter:

https://learningbythebook.princeton.edu/

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

4 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Welcome and Introductory Remarks from Organizers

4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Keynote Address

“From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Making, Writing, and Knowing in the early modern Workshop”
Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History; Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University

6 p.m. – 7:30 pm: Reception [Location: To Be Announced]
Thursday, June 7, 2018 - PRESERVING

8:30 a.m.: Breakfast [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Panel 1 - Artisanal Knowledge

Chair: Sue Naquin, Princeton University

“Making Manuals in the Arts: The “Mayerne Manuscript’- A Case Study”
Jenny Boulboullé, University of Amsterdam

“Collected Essentials for Inksticks: The Making of an Artisanal Manual in Fourteenth-and-Fifteenth Century China”
Wilson Chan, University of Hong Kong

“Re-enactment of Functional Reading in Eighteenth-Century Gold- and Silversmithing”
Tonny Beentjes, Utrecht University
Thijs Hagendijk, Utrecht University

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Panel 2 - Collection Knowledge

Chair: Dan Kevles, Yale University

““A Few Plain Instructions for Collecting:’ Nineteenth Century Botanical Collection Manuals in the Service of Empire”
Elaine Ayers, Princeton University

“The Romantic Vade Mecum: Supplementary Descriptions of Sir John Soane’s House and Museum”
Marianne Brooker, University of London – Birkbeck

“Das Leben im Schlamm – Preparing and Maintaining Pure Cultures of Algae”
Charles Kollmer, Princeton University

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Panel 3 - Protocols & Recipes

Chair: Sven Dupré, Utrecht University

“Selecting and Organizing Recipes in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Compendia of Alchemy and Medicine”
Matteo Martelli, University of Bologna

“Manuals in the Early History of Mendelian Genetics”
Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter
Guiditta Parolini, Technische Universität Berlin

“Recipes for Recombining DNA: A History of Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual”
Angela Creager, Princeton University

3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Panel 4 - Administration & Industry

Chair: Will Deringer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Study, Princeton University

“Expertise in Governance: Gazetteers of Xinjiang and Territorial Administration in China, ca. 1760-1840”
Xue Zhang, Princeton University

“Learning How to Construct the Unknown: The Practice of Risk in Early North American Insurance Manuals”
Elisabeth Engel, German Historical Institute

“Power Conveyance: Descriptive Geometry and Learning to Draw in the Mechanic Trades of the United States and German-speaking Europe, 1818-1871”
Liat Spiro, Harvard University

5 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Ending Discussion
Friday, June 8, 2018 - REVISING

8:30 a.m.: Breakfast [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Panel 5 - Improvisation & Non-Standardization

Chair: Evan Hepler-Smith, Harvard University

“Rewriting the Book: Archaeology and Experimental Glass from the First British Colony in America”
Umberto Veronesi, University of College London Institute of Archaeology

“Reading Alchemically: Early Modern Guides to Impossible Practices”
Jennifer Rampling, Princeton University

“Maurice H. Dobb’s Wages (1928-1957): A Cambridge Handbook Against the Standardization of Knowledge?”
François Allisson, Université de Lausanne
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Université de Lausanne

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: Panel 6 - Editions & Transmission

Chair: Florence Hsia, University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Reading Instructions of the Past, Renaming and Reclassifying Them: Song Commentaries on the Canon The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures (11th-13th Centuries)”
Karine Chemla, CNRS, Paris Diderot

“Timing the Textbook: Wishful Learning and Western Knowledge, ca. 1750-1900”
Hansun Hsiung, MPIWG, Berlin

“Inevitably Already Out of Date: Handbooks and the Temporality of Knowledge in the Sciences of Classification”
Mathias Grote, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Firestone Library Session

3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Panel 7 - Classification & Cases

Chair: Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University & Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

“Medical Knowledge and Education and the Manual Production of Casebook-Based Handbooks”
Axel Hüntelmann, Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité, Berlin

“Taking Human Genetics Digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the Genealogy of Electronic Publishing in Biomedicine”
Michael McGovern, Princeton University

““A Language of Numbers’: Psychiatry, The World Health Organization, and the Coding of Consensus in ICD-9”
David Robertson, Princeton University

6 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Early Career Scholar Mixer
Saturday, June 9, 2018 - TEACHING

8:30 a.m.: Breakfast [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Panel 8 - Devotional & Domestic Knowledge

Chair: Nigel Smith, Princeton University

“English Preaching Manuals, Clerical Expertise, and the ‘Learned Ministry,’ 1570–1660”
Simon Brown, University of California – Berkeley

“Customizing “How-To’ in Early Modern England”
Elaine Leong, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

“The Duty to Know: Nineteenth Century Jewish Catechisms and Manuals and the Making of Jewish Knowledge”
Kerstin von der Krone, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Panel 9 - Manuals for Calculation

Chair: Angela Creager, Princeton University

“The Book as Instrument: Early Modern “Description and Use’ Texts and the Reception of Mathematical Instruments”
Boris Jardine, University of Cambridge

“Handbooks of the Mind in to Ready Reckoners in Print: The Story of the Encuvati in the Nineteenth Century”
D. Senthil Babu, French Institute of Ponticherry and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

“Spinning the Risk: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons Handbooks”
Evangelos Kotsioris, Princeton University

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Panel 10 - How to Handle Animals, Plants, and People

Chair: Kerstin von der Krone, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

“Of Horses, Men, Things, and Books: Learning How to Ride”
Isabelle Schuerch, University of Bern, Switzerland

“The Clubber’s Guide to Nature: The Sociability of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan”
Federico Marcon, Princeton University

“Formatting Modern Man on Paper: Ernst Neufert’s Lehren”
Anna-Maria Meister, Princeton University

3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Panel 11 - Wielding Power

Chair: Elaine Leong, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

“Hunters, Inquisitors and Scholars. Construction and Demarcation of Expertise in the Manuals of Frederick II and Bernard Gui (13th and 14th Centuries)”
Marcel Bubert, Universität Münster

“How to… Rule the World: Occult-Scientific Manuals of the Early Modern Persian Cosmopolis”
Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina

“How to Conjure Spirits: The Necromancer’s Manual in Early Modern Switzerland”
Eveline Szarka, University of Zurich

5 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Ending Discussion
Sunday, June 10, 2018 - SELLING

9:30 a.m.: Breakfast [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Panel 12 - Codification & Commerce

Chair: Mathias Grote, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

“The Handbuch der Architektur and the Production of “Process Architectures’ in the late 19th century”
Suzanne Jany, Humboldt Universität

“The Handbook as Genre: Conflicting Concepts in Physics Publishing”
Alrun Schmidtke, Humboldt University, Berlin

“Selling by the Book: Instructions and the Commercialization of DIY Practices in 20th-Century Germany”
Reinhild Kreis, University of Mannheim

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: Break [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Final Commentary and Discussion

Chair: Angela Creager, Princeton University

Commentator: Michael Gordin, Princeton University

12:45 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Lunch [Location: 210 Dickinson Hall]

2 p.m.: Conference Ends