Centre for Collection Development

Dr. Anne Mariss, University of Tuebingen


Prof. Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens, Lise Meitner fellow, University of Vienna


Dr. Kim Sloan, British Museum London


Dr. Emma Spary, University of Cambridge


Prof. Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton





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

  • Arnott-Davies, Rees (University of London):
    Figures, Letters, &c.': approaching knowledge through image and text in Jan van Rymsdyk's Museum Britannicum

  • Brixius, Dorit (European University Institute Florence):
    Pierre Poivre and the Acquisition of Spices in the Indo-Pacific (1768-1772)

  • Dubald, Déborah (European University Institute Florence):
    The many lives of the Lapeyrouse collection in Toulouse, 1780-1865

  • Gold, Meira (University of Cambridge):
    Collecting Egypt through the Victorian Armchair

  • Heintzman, Kit (Harvard University):
    A Cabinet of the Ordinary: Domesticating Veterinary Medicine, 1766-1796

  • Hughes, Alicia (University of Glasgow):
    William Hunter: Anatomist to the Artists

  • Krieger, Annekathrin (University of Goettingen):
    Global knowledge in the German Empire: Apes, biology and the differentiation of zoology

  • Kroupa, Šebestián (University of Cambridge):
    Ex epistulils Philippinensibus: Georg Joseph Kamel SJ (1661-1706) and his correspondence network

  • MacKinney, Anne (Humboldt-University Berlin):
    Registering nature: writing practices in the collection and commerce of natural objects in Berlin, 1770-1850

  • Partridge, Alex (University of Cambridge):
    Reassembling the "Copper Eskimo"

  • Portet I Codina, Laia (University of Cambridge):
    Placing the exotic in Paris. Pharmacological knowledge, print and collection by the turn of the 18th century

  • Ruby, Twyla (University of California at Los Angeles):
    G.F. Viganis, first professor of chemistry at Cambridge and his collection of chemical substances

  • Rusque, Dorothée (University of Strasbourg):
    Natural history collections and observations in the 18th Century. The dialogue between objects in Jean Hermann's cabinet

  • Sattelmacher, Anja (Humboldt-University Berlin):
    From model to slide - and back. The collection of models and lantern slides at the Göttingen mathematical Institute

  • Striekworld, Robbert (Leiden University):
    Collection Building: Ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th Century (1760-1880)

  • Svensson, Anna (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    The Utopia of Universal Knowledge in the Early Modern Collecting Culture: Establishing the Botanic Garden in Oxford

  • Toledano, Anna (Stanford University):
    Indefatigable Azara: A Spanish Naturalist in South America

  • Tsal, Yotam (University of California, Berkeley):
    From Nature to Natural History: The Production of "Dead Birds" in the 18th Century Atlantic World

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

  • Zhao, Wenrui (Columbia University):
    Network of collecting and knowing: the mineral specimen in the Dresden Kunstkammer