Dr. Marie Luisa Allemeyer (Zentrale Kustodie, University of Göttingen)
Dr. Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
Christian Vogel (Zentrale Kustodie, University of Göttingen)

Professor James Delbourgo (Rutgers University)
Professor Joachim Rees (Freie Universität Berlin)
Dr. Bernhard C. Schär (ETH Zürich)
Dr. Lola Sanchez-Jauregui (University of Glasgow)
Professor Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney)

• Anthony, Patrick (Vanderbilt University):
  Science and the Subterranean: Mining, Travel, and Natural History in the Time of Humboldt, ca. 1760-1860


• Bennet, Alison (UCL and the British Museum):
  Collecting in East Africa: from the end of exploration to colonisation and settlement


• Braun, Tabea (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):
  Charles Gores travel albums, 1771-1807. Configuration and dynamics


• Elimam, Samaa (Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences):
  Truth in Stone: Tracking a Project of Scale in the Minerals of the Description de l'Egypte


• Fleetwood, Lachland (University of Cambridge):
  Altitude, Science and Intermediaries in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850


• Scates Franes, Wiliam (The Austalian National University):
  Dissonance on the Edge of American Empire: the Wilkes Expedition


• Gjikola, Ardeta (Harvard University):
  The Elgin Marbles and the Objectivity of Aesthetic Taste


• Hähnle, Mirjam (Universität Basel):
  Exploring the Orient, Narrating the Self. The Expedition to Arabia Felix 1761 - 1767


• zur Lage, Julian (Universität Osnabrück):
  A World in Books. Global Knowledge in 18th Century Libraries


• Madruga, Catarina (Universidade de Lisboa):
  Taxonomy and Empire. The zoological collections of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (1862-1900)


• McMahon, Mary (University of London and the British Museum):
  Picturing the Antipodes: race, image and empire in 19th-century Britain


• Moore,Taylor (Rutgers University):
  Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Semi-colonial Egypt (1876-1960)


• Pickman, Sarah M. (Yale University):
  Materializing the Extreme Environment


• Pollitt, Ben (University College London):
  The "Atlas" Unbound: the exploratory art of John Webber


• Rose, Edwin (University of Cambridge):
  From Sir Hans Sloane to Sir Joseph Banks: The Creation and Use of Private Libraries in relation to the practice of natural history, 1740-1830


• Sarreiter, Regina (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient):
  The Epistemic Lives of an Ethnological Collection between South Africa, Germany and Tanzania


• Slappnig, Joy (University of London):
  The indigenous map: native information, ethnographic object, artefact of encounter


• Striekwold, Robbert J. (Leiden University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center):
  Collection Building: Ichthyology in the Netherlands 1820-1880


• Toledano, Anna (Stanford University):
  Cabinets of Curiosity in 18th-century Spanish America


• van Trijp, Didi (Leiden University):
  Enlightened Fish Books: A New History of Eighteenth-Century Ichthyology (1686-1828)