Monday, 24.07.2017

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Arrival and registration at the Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte

4.00 p.m. - 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.:
James Delbourgo: Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Keynote lecture)

7.30 p.m.:
Opening Dinner / Buffet



Tuesday, 25.07.2017

The Natural Lives of Cultural Things: Collecting Materials, Environments and Categories // James Delbourgo

9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement

9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Edwin Rose: Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and the Library of the Endeavour, 1768-1771

10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea

11.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Sarah Pickman: Materializing the Extreme Environment

12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Lachlan Fleetwood: Altitude, Science and Intermediaries in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch

2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Samaa Elimam: Truth in Stone: Tracking a Project of Scale in the Minerals of the Description de l'Egypte

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Regina Sarreiter: The epistemic lives of an ethnological collection between South Africa, Germany and Tanzania

4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea

4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection

5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.:
Tour Ethnographic Collection

7.00 p.m.:
Dinner at Bistro "Deutsches Theater" (Theaterplatz 11, 37073 Göttingen)



Wednesday, 26.07.2017

Drawing and Inscription as Practices of Mobilisation and Insight // Joachim Rees


9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement

9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Didi van Trijp: On Stranger Tides: Marine Exotica and The Question of Colour

10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea

11.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Tabea Braun: Collecting landscapes - Charles Gore's travel albums, 1771 - 1807

12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Ben Pollitt: 'Constellations of Mobility' in the Collection and Display of Cook-Related Akua Hulu Manu in the Long Nineteenth Century

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch

2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Ardeta Gjikola: Taste at a Distance: How Lord Elgin Came to Value the Parthenon Sculptures

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Mary McMahon: Picturing the Antipodes: race, Image and empire in 19th-century Britain

4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea

4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection

5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Hands on Research Session at the Cast Collection of Antique Sculptures

Lola Sanchez-Jauregui: Plaster Casts as objects of enquiry: Artistic making and scholarship

7.30 p.m.:
Dinner at "Café Botanik" (Untere Karspüle 1b, 37073 Göttingen)



Thursday, 27.07.2017

Imperial Infrastructures and Scientific Travel as a Collaborative Endeavour // Bernhard C. Schär


9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory Statement

9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Anna Toledano: Collecting el Campo: The Impact of José Longinos on North American Nature

10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea

11.00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.:
Alison Bennett: Explorations through Kenya: collecting, categorizing and colonizing c.1880 -­ 1895

12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Catarina Madruga: Naturalists, Collectors, and Explorers in 19th century Portuguese Africa

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch

2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Robbert Striekwold: A fish by any other name. What the orphaned collection of Kuhl & van Hasselt might teach us about 19th century natural history

3.00 p.m.- 4.00 p.m.:
William Scates Frances: Nineteenth Century Cyborg - a Cognitive History of the United States Exploratory Expedition, 1838-1842

4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea

4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:
Transfer to the Collection

5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.:
Tour Museum of Zoology

7.00 p.m.:
Dinner at "Bullerjahn" (Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen)



Friday, 28.07.2017

Scientific Travels and the Spaces and People in-between // Vanessa Smith

8.30 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.
Tour Herbarium

9.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m.:
Transfer to the Historical Observatory

10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.:
Expert's Introductory statement

10.30 a.m. - 11.30 p.m.:
Patrick Anthony: The Discovery of the Underground: Mining and the Search for a Primordial Fatherland in Enlightenment Germany

11.30 a.m. - 12.00 a.m.:
Coffee / Tea

12.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
Julian zur Lage: A World in Books. Global Knowledge in 18th Century Libraries

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.:
Lunch

2.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.:
Joy Slappnig: The Indigenous map: native Information, ethnographic object, artefact of encounter

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.:
Mirjam Hähnle: The Extraordinary and the Common: Historical and Anthropological Gaze in the Royal Danish Expedition

4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.:
Coffee / Tea

4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.:
Taylor Moore: Amulet Tales: Tracing Economies of Magic and Healing in Interwar Ethnographic Collections

5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.:
Conclusion and Final Discussion

7.00 p.m. Dinner at "Gaudi" (Rote Straße 16, 37073 Göttingen)



Saturday, 29.07.2017

10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.:
Optional Tour of the Geoscience Museum // Collection of Mathematical Models and Instruments
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