Early modern English and German collecting networks and practice: medicine and natural philosophy

Workshop at the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies, 8 and 9 June 2018

Early modern English and German collecting networks and practice: medicine and natural philosophy

Workshop I of “Collective Wisdom”: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy

Lesesaal, Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies, Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 36, 06108 Halle (Saale)Principal Investigator: Anna Marie Roos, Co-Investigator: Vera Keller

Friday June 8, 2018

9:15 – 9:45 am      Registration and Coffee

9:45 – 10 am         Welcome
Rainer Godel (Leopoldina, Halle/Saale)
Vera Keller, Associate Professor of History (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)

10 – 11 am              Plenary

                                    Julia A. Schmidt-Funke (Forschungsverbund Gotha)

“Studying Nature in the City circa 1700: Danzig and Frankfurt”

11 – 1 pm                Session I: Medicine and Collecting in the Academy

Chair: Anja-Silvia Goenig (Universität Zürich)

Anna Maerker (King’s College, London)

“Empathy and education in late eighteenth-century medicine: challenging the      anatomical collection of the Josephinum”

Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)

“Medical Alchemical Materials in Mid-Seventeenth Century Collections: An Analysis of Ashmole’s Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) and Worm’s Musaeum Wormianum (1655)”

1 – 2 pm                   Lunch

2 – 3:45 pm            Session II:  Natural History and Collecting
Chair: Anna Maerker (King’s College, London)

Dominik Hünniger (Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study)
“Physicians and Insects – Entomological Studies and Collecting at the Royal Society and the Leopoldina”

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
“‘Only meer Love to Learning’: A rediscovered travel diary of naturalist, apothecary and collector James Petiver (c. 1665-1718)”

3:45 – 4:15 pm     Guided tour
Tour of Treasure for public benefit – A glimpse into the collections of the Leopoldina by Mirko Hanke (Leopoldina, Halle/Saale)

4:15 – 4:45 pm      Coffee break and transport to Francke Foundation

4:45 – 5:45 pm      Guided tour
“Collecting Pietist networks, pedagogical purposes and image politics: the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities at the Francke Foundation” by Holger Zaunstöck (Francke Foundation, Halle/Saale)

6:00 – 7:00 pm     Baroque Concert
at the “Englische Saal” in the historic English House, Francke Foundation

7:30 pm                    Conference Dinner

Saturday June 9, 2018

9 – 9:30 am            Coffee

9:30 – 10:30 am   Plenary
Kelly Whitmer (The University of the South, Sewanee)
“Engaging with realia in the 'school of play’: useful knowledge and the turn to pedagogical realism in early modern central Europe”

10:30 – 1 pm         Session III:  Curious Classification within and without the Academy
Chair: Kelly Whitmer (The University of the South, Sewanee)

Vera Keller (University of Oregon)
“Something "Kunstkammerish": Hyphenated objects in the Museology of Johann Daniel Major”

Fabian Krämer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
“Cabinet of curiosities on paper: The Miscellanea curiosa between 1670 and 1706”

Thomas Ruhland (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
“The Introduction of the Linnaean Classification System at the Francke Foundation’s Kunst- und Naturalienkammer in Halle“
 

1 – 2 pm                   Lunch

2:30 – 3:30 pm      Session IV, TBA

3:30 – 4 pm            Coffee

4 – 5 pm                 Roundtable Discussion

Conference End