Commerce & Collections | Workshop in Heidelberg

Here’s the program:

Thursday, 7 March 2024

 

1:30pm      Opening and Welcome [HS Schurman Library]

 

1:45pm      Panel I:  Archaeology & Prehistory [HS Schurman Library]

 

Nathalie Richard (Le Mans)

How much is a menhir worth?

 

Marc-Antoine Kaeser (Neuchâtel)

The Construction of Typologies: Object Movements as Instruments of Scientific Power and as Weapons of Dissuasion, Influence, and Dependence 

 

Miruna Achim (Mexico City)

« La belle dame sans merci ». Jade, Gems, and the Making of Americanist Archaeology in the Late-Nineteenth Century 

 

Irina Podgorny (La Plata)—[via Zoom]

Dealers in old bones & the emergence of paleontology in the Americas

 

4:45pm      coffee break

 

5:15pm      Keynote [HS Auditorium]

 

Gabriel Galvez-Behar (Lille)

On Science and Capitalism: for an Economic History of Science

 

7pm         Dinner [Vetter Brewery Heidelberg]

Friday, 8 March 2024

 

9 am        Panel II: Medicine & Natural Sciences [HS Schurman Library]

 

Alejandro Martínez (La Plata)

Entre el herbario, la botica y el laboratorio. La introducción del Jaborandí en la materia medica europea de fines del siglo XIX

 

Simon Hirzel (Bonn)

Collecting to Build a Livelihood, or: the Strange Journey of a Mummy to Germany 

 

Lars Dickmann (Heidelberg)

Of Light, Dung, and Parasites. Collection practices and applied science in the entomological collection of Eduard Handschin at the Natural History Museum Basel 

 

Laura Cházaro (Mexico City)

The making of a Market in Medical Instruments: Values, Prices and Memories at the Museo de Medicina, Mexico

 

12am        coffee break

 

12:30am     network admin session [HS Schurman Library]

w/ Nathalie Richard

 

1pm         digital exhibition session [HS Schurman Library]

            W / Simon Hirzel & Alma Hannig

 

1:30pm      light lunch [María’s empanadas]

 

2:30pm      visit & introduction to Heidelberg’s Antiquities Collection

            w/ Polly Lohmann

 


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