Wednesday 16 October 2019

09.15-09.30
Opening remarks: Moritz von Brescius

09.30-12.30
Panel I: The art of timing: plant transfers and the management of plantation economies

Ulrike Kirchberger (Kassel): The Temporalities of Species Transfer across the Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Moritz von Brescius (Bern): Unlocking the Tropics: Gustav Mann, Rubber and the Timing of British Resource Imperialism, 1859–1904

Andreas Bolte (Freiburg): Temporal practices of plantation economy in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, ca. 1900–1940

12.30-14.00
LUNCH BREAK

14.00-16.00
Panel II: Visualising global trade in the age of empire

Ulrich Päßler (Berlin): A Political Economy of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold

Iris Schröder (Erfurt): Mapping the Riches of the Earth: Plants, Infrastructure and Trade, and the Rise of Economic Cartography in the Early 20th Century

16.15-17:45
Keynote lecture: Harry Liebersohn (Berlin/Illinois):
Global collections: Kensington (London) and the World
(Together with the ‘Forschungscolloquium nach 1800’, Unitobler, Room F 006)

Conference Dinner

Thursday 17 October 2019

09.15-11.15
Panel III: Global commodities: trade, manufacturing and consumption

Rahul Markovits (Paris): Bubble or failed monopolistic strategy? The French Indies’ Company and the selling of North-American ginseng in Canton around 1750

Samuel Eleazar-Wendt (Frankfurt/Oder): Rubber Goods in Health:
C. Müller Gummiwaren Berlin, 1875-1945

11.15-11.30
COFFEE/TEA

11:30-12.30
Panel IV: Objects in motion

Caroline Cornish (London): Accumulate to circulate: cultures of object exchange in late nineteenth-century museums

12:30-13:15
Concluding Discussion
Final comments: Peter-Paul Bänziger (Basel)