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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