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
LOCATION:Halle, Leopoldina, Germany STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20180608T040000Z DTEND:20180609T040000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR