Monday, September 17, 2012
Location: Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 4-6, Hannover
16.00-16.15 Welcome
Session 1: Acquisition and Organisation of Knowledge in Early Modern Gardening
Chair: Hubertus Fischer (CGL, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
16.15-16.45 Clemens Alexander Wimmer (Bücherei des Deutschen Gartenbaues e. V., Berlin): „The Arrangements of Plants in Renaissance Parterres between Science and Art“
16.45-17.00 Discussion
17.00-17.30 Friedrich Hülsmann/Reinhard Laube (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover): „The Reflections of Gardens in the Knowledge System of a Royal Collection“
17.30-17.45 Discussion
18.15-19.30 Evening Lecture
Michael Leslie (Rhodes College, Memphis, USA): „The Uneasy Paradise: Why Couldn’t John Evelyn Complete the Elysium Britannicum?”
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Location: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2a, Room 009 and Room 020
Resuming Session 1: Acquisition and Organisation of Knowledge in Early Modern Gardening
Chair: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (CGL, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
09.00-09.20 Carola Piepenbring-Thomas (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover): „Garden Visits, Observation, Reading and Excerpt – Martin Fogel (1634-1675) of Knowledge Acquisition Techniques“
09.20-09.30 Discussion
09.30-09.50 Verena Schneider (Universität Düsseldorf): „The Creation of Knowledge: Reconstructing Garden History in the Early Modern Period“
09.50-10.00 Discussion
10.00-10.20 Iris Lauterbach (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München): „Commerce and Erudition: Bourgeois Self Representation by Botany and Garden Culture in Germany, 16th to 18th Centuries“
10.20-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Science and Gardening in the Early Modern Period
Chair: Volker Remmert (IZWT, Universität Wuppertal)
11.00-11-30 Chandra Mukerij (University of California, San Diego): „The Potager du Roi and the Garden of the Sun King“
11.30-11.45 Discussion
11.45-12.15 Alette Fleischer (University of Twente): „Gardening Nature, Gardening Knowledge: Early Modern Gardens and the Rise of Natural Knowledge“
12.15-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch Break
Resuming Session 2: Science and Gardening in the Early Modern Period
Chair: N.N.
14.00-14.20 Anthony Gerbino (University of Manchester): „The Topographical Survey and the Formal Garden: Cartography and Landscape in 17th-century France“
14.20-14.30 Discussion
14.30-14.50 Denis Ribouillault (Université de Montréal, Canada): „Measuring Time in the Gardens of Papal Rome“
14.50-15.00 Discussion
15.00-15.20 Martina Sitt (Universität Kassel): „Paths of Knowledge - The Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe at Kassel as a Centre of Scientific and Aesthetic Networking in Early 18th-Century Europe
15.20-15.30 Discussion
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-16.20 Elizabeth A. Westling (Cambridge/MA): „Through the Looking Glass: Optics, Geometry, and Art in Renaissance and Baroque Gardens“
16.20-16.30 Discussion
16.30-16.50 Ana Tabarasi-Hofmann (Universität Mainz): „The Early Modern Analogy between Gardening, Geology and Anatomy“
16.50-17.00 Discussion
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Location: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2a, Room 009 and Room 020
Session 3: Botanical Knowledge
Chair: Hansjörg Küster (CGL, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
09.00-09.30 Alessandro Tosi (Università di Pisa): „Botanical Art and the Idea of the Garden between Imagination and Science“
09.30-09.45 Discussion
09.45-10.05 Katharina Peters (Leibniz Universität Hannover): „From Seeking to Science or Learning by Doing – The Acquisition of Botanical Knowledge (Looking at the Court Gardeners Wendland of Hannover)“
10.05-10.15 Discussion
10.15-10.35 Irina Schmiedel (Universität Wuppertal): „Between Knowledge and Representation – Growing, Painting, Collecting, Classifying Citrus Fruit“
10.35-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-11.35 Gregory Grämiger (ETH Zürich): „Reconstructing Order: Architecture, Layout and Plants of the Botanical Garden in Leiden During its First Hundred Years“
11.35-11.45 Discussion
Session 4: Waterworks
Chair: Sigrid Thielking (CGL, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
11.45-12.15 Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College Dublin): „Ancient Knowledge, New Aesthetics: Italian Renaissance Garden Waterworks between Theory and Practice“
12.15-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-13.50 Matteo Valleriani (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin): „The Organ of the Garden of Tivoli“
13.50-14.00 Discussion
14.00-14.20 Alexander Ditsche: „Water-powered Musical Automata in Prestigious European Gardens of the 16th to 18th Century“
14.20-14.30 Discussion
14.30-15.00 Final Discussion
15.30-17.00 Guided tour