Thursday 21 September 2017
11.00–12.00
Welcome and Introduction
Simona Boscani Leoni (Universität Bern)
Keynote Speech:
Revisiting Local Knowledge and the Indigenous in Eighteenth-Century Natural History: A Few Thoughts
Alix Cooper (Stony Brook University)
Mapping the Americas
14.00–16.00
Unstable Natural Knowledge Production: The Malaspina Expedition at the Edges of Spanish Colonial America (1789/1793)
Marcelo Figueroa (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán / CONICET)
Inalienable Truths: ‘Indian’ Informers in the Study of Spanish American Territory, ca. 1770-1900
Stefanie Gänger (Universität zu Köln)
16.30–18.30
Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in South America
Irina Podgorny (Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET)
Enlightenment, Empire and Ethnology: Prince Maximilian Wied-Neuwied’s Expeditions to the New World
Peter Hanns Reill (University of California, Los Angeles)
Friday, 22 September 2017
Mapping Europe
9.00–11.00
Knowing Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in 18th-Century Zurich
Meike Knittel (Universität Bern)
Mapping the Domestic Indigenous: Linnaeus and Instructed Travel in Sápmi and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1730-1800
Linda Burnett Andersson (Linnaeus University)
11.30–13.30
Inventing the Healthy Alps: Farmers, Physicians and the Swiss Whey Cure of the 18th Century
Barbara Orland (Universität Basel)
In Aspero Solo: Antonio Vallisneri's Manuscript Primi Itineris per Montes Specimen Physico-Medicum (1705)
Franceso Luzzini (MPIWG Berlin)
14.30–16.30
Mapping Territories through Questionnaires: Some Observations about a Genre
Simona Boscani Leoni (Universität Bern)
Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Perspective of Economic Enlightenment on Traditional Uses in Wetlands
Martin Stuber (Universität Bern)
17.00–19.00
The Role of the Idea of Context in Luigi Ferdinando Marsili’s Conception of Natural History
Marta Cavazza (Università di Bologna)
Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Price Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society's Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory
Sarah Baumgartner (Universität Bern)
Saturday, 23 September 2017
Mapping Asia
9.00–11.00
Discovering China: James Cuninghame’s Practices of Knowledge Production in Amoy (1698) and Chusan (1700-03)
Richard Coulton (Queen Mary University) & Charles E. Jarvis (Natural History Museum London)
The Canal of Zabeta Khan: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping History
Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester)
11.30–13.30
Creation of ‘Scientific’ Knowledge and the Colonial Exploration of the Himalaya, 1780- 1850
Chetan Singh (Indian Institute of Advanced Study)
Making Governance Work: Paper and Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century Dutch Empire
Andreas Weber (University of Twente)
13.30–13.50
Conference Wrap-Up
Kaspar von Greyerz (Universität Basel)