June 8 and 9, 2018
Early modern English and German collecting networks and practice: Medicine and natural philosophy
Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies
Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 36, 06108 Halle (Saale)
Germany
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 am
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 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 – 2:30 pm
Danny Weber (Leopoldina, Halle/Saale)
“Acta Leopoldina and the Leopoldina Archives”
Tour of Treasure for public benefit – A glimpse into the collections of the Leopoldina
2:30 – 4:15 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)”
4:15-4:45 pm
Coffee break and transport to Francke Foundation
4:45 pm- 5:45 pm
Guided tour
Holger Zaunstöck (Francke Foundation, Halle/Saale)
“Collecting Pietist networks, pedagogical purposes and image politics: The Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities at the Francke Foundation”
6:30-7:30 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-University 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: Collecting plants, collecting people: Naturalists, gardens and friendship albums.
Chair: Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln)
Anna Svensson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Ordering the Physick Garden: The perils and pleasures of a living collection
Maria Avxentevskaya (MPIWG Berlin)
Natura in minimis est maxima: Alba amicorum in exchange between the Leopoldina and the Royal Society
3:30 – 4 pm
Coffee
4 – 5 pm
Roundtable Discussion
Conference End
Detail of Antiquiteitenzaal, Balthasar Sigmund Setletzky, after Johann Jakob Schübler, Erste [-Vierte] Auβgabe des Zweyten Theils seines vorhabenden Wercks ….(Augsburg: Wolf, [after 1724]).
