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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **June 8 - June 9, 2018** 

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####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Halle, Leopoldina, Germany**  



 

 



 

 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**



 

 



 

 

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