Program Summer School: Collecting and the Knowledge of Objects
Monday, 5th September 2016
3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Arrival and registration at the Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte (on the map)
4.00 - 6.00 p.m.: Introducing the Zentrale Kustodie and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Brief round of introductions of all participants, Guided Tour of the Historic Observatory
6.15 p.m.: Public Keynote, Kim Sloan: "Turning the King's Library into the Enlightenment Gallery - thirteen years on"
8:00 p.m.: Buffet
Tuesday, 6th September
From encyclopaedic to specialised collecting: Practices of collecting and exhibiting, the role of collectors and things // Expert: Kim Sloan
9.00 - 09.30 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement
9.30 - 10.30 a.m.: Twyla Ruby: G.F. Viganis, first professor of chemistry at Cambridge and his collection of chemical substances
10.30 - 11.00 a.m: Coffee / Tea
11.00 - 12.00 a.m.: Robbert J. Striekwold: Collection Building: Ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th Century (1760-1880)
12.00 - 13.00 p.m.: Anna Toledano: Indefatigable Azara: A Spanish Naturalist in South America
1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 p.m.: Wenrui Zhao: Network of collecting and knowing: the mineral specimen in the Dresden Kunstkammer
3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Kit Heintzmann: A Cabinet of the Ordinary: Domesticating Veterinary Medicine, 1766-1796
4.00 - 4.30 p.m.: Coffee and Cake
4.30 - 5.00 p.m.: Transfer to the collection
5.00 - 6.00 p.m.: Tour Ethnographic Collection
6.30 p.m.: Dinner at Nudelhaus (Rote Straße 13, 37073 Göttingen)
Wednesday, 7th September 2016
"Putting nature in a box." The material order of things: shelves, cabinets, boxes and other furniture of order // Expert: Maria Rentetzi
8.30 - 09.00 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement
9.00 - 10.00 a.m.: Dorit Brixius: Pierre Poivre and the Acquisition of Spices in the Indo-Pacific (1768-1772)
10.00 - 10.30 a.m: Coffee / Tea
10.30 - 11.30 a.m.: Laia Portet I Codina: Placing the exotic in Paris. Pharmacological knowledge, print and collection by the turn of the 18th century
11.30 - 12.30 p.m.: Dorothée Rusque: Natural history collections and observations in the 18th Century. The dialogue between objects in Jean Hermann's cabinet
12.30 - 1.30 p.m.: Lunch
1.30 - 2.30 p.m.: Anna Svensson: Exploring Utopia and Universal Order Through the History of Botanical Collections
2.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Meira Gold: Collecting Egypt through the Victorian Armchair
3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Coffee and Cake
4.0 - 4.30 p.m.: Transfer to the collection
4.30 - 5.30 p.m.: Tour collection of medical history
5.30 - 6.00 p.m.: Transfer to Observatory
6.15 p.m.: Public Keynote, Emma Spary: "The Crystal State: Parisian Collectors and Mineral Aesthetics in the Late Eighteenth Century"
7.30 p.m.: Dinner at Planea (Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen)/ La Locanda (Reinhäuser Landstraße 22, 37083 Göttingen)
Thursday, 8th September 2016
Networks, Actors and Objects // Expert: Emma Spary
8.30 - 09.00 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement
9.00 - 10.00 a.m.: Alex Partridge: Reassembling the "Copper Eskimo"
10.00 - 10.30 a.m: Coffee / Tea
10.30 - 11.30 a.m.: Annekathrin Krieger: Global knowledge in the German Empire: Apes, biology and the differentiation of zoology
11.30 - 12.30 p.m.: Anne MacKinney: Registering nature: writing practices in the collection and commerce of natural objects in Berlin, 1770-1850
12.30 - 1.30 p.m.: Lunch
1.30 - 2.30 p.m.: Šebestián Kroupa: Ex epistulils Philippinensibus: Georg Joseph Kamel SJ (1661-1706) and his correspondence network
2.30 - 3.30 p.m.: Didi van Trijp: Enlightened Fish Books: A New History of Eighteenth-Century Ichthyology (1686-1828)
3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Coffee and Cake
4.0 - 4.30 p.m.: Transfer to the collection
4.30 - 5.30 p.m.: Tour Herbarium/ Pharmacognostic collection
5.30 - 6.00 p.m.: Transfer to Zentrale Kustodie (on the map)
6.15 p.m.: Book presentation: Anne Mariss: "A world of new things" Praktiken der Naturgeschichte bei Johann Reinhold Forster [Johann Reinhold Forster and the practices of Natural History], Frankfurt/Main 2015.
7.30 p.m.: Dinner at Bullerjahn (Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen)
Friday, 9th September 2016
The long road to the image: strategies of visualisation in collections // Expert: Stephanie Moser
9.00 - 09.30 a.m.: Expert's introductory statement
9.30 - 10.30 a.m.: Alicia Hughes: William Hunter: Anatomist to the Artists
10.30 - 11.00 a.m: Coffee / Tea
11.00 - 12.00 a.m.: Rees Arnott-Davies: Figures, Letters, &c.': approaching knowledge through image and text in Jan van Rymsdyk's Museum Britannicum
12.00 - 13.00 p.m.: Yotam Tsal: From Nature to Natural History: The Production of "Dead Birds" in the 18th Century Atlantic World
1.00 - 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 p.m.: Deborah S. Dubald: The many lives of the Lapeyrouse collection in Toulouse, 1780-1865
3.00 - 4.00 p.m.: Anja Sattelmacher: From model to slide - and back. The collection of models and lantern slides at the Göttingen mathematical Institute
4.00 - 4.30 p.m.: Coffee and Cake
4.30 - 5.00 p.m.: Conclusion and final discussion
6.00 p.m.: Dinner at Theatercafe (Theaterplatz 11, 37073 Göttingen)
8.00 p.m.: Performance by the actor Götz Lautenbach on Baron von Asch in the Ethnographic collection
Saturday, 10th September 2016
10.00 to 11 .00 a.m.: Optional tour of the plaster cast collection, application on Monday