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SciCoMove Workshop # 4 – Places of encounters, and culture of curiosity

Barcelona, Museu de Ciències Naturals and Institut Botànic

13-14 April 2023

Thursday April, 13th (“Museu Blau”, Museum of Natural Sciences, Barcelona)

4-4:30 PM WELCOME

4:30-5:30PM KEY LECTURE by Alfons Zarzoso, director of Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya.

5:30-6PM IMPRESCINDIBLES Visit to the temporal exhibition: Imprescindibles. Les treballadores del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, 1917-1987. [Essentials. Women working in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 1917-1987].

6-7 PM NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM Visit to the permanent exhibition Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, including the room “The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barcelona.”

7-9 PM COCKTAIL DINNER Served at the Museu de Ciències Naturals.

Friday April, 14th (Botanic Institute of Barcelona)

9:30 AM CRISTIANA OGHINA-PAVIE & LOUISE COUEFFÉ Université d’Angers.

An herbarium of roses, between botanical inspiration and gardening curiosity.

10 AM CRISTINA CILLI, GIANCARLA MALERBA & GIACOMO GIACOBINI  Human Anatomy Museum, University of Turin.

The showcase in the atrium of the Human Anatomy Museum (Turin): Ancient Specimens between Science and Curiosity.

10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK

11 AM XAVIER ULLED BERTRAN ICRPC-CERCA Programme

From Curiosity to Utility. Transformation and expansion of the Salvador cabinet, 1830-1855.

11:30 AM CLAIRE SHERIDAN Australian National University.

The waxing and waning of academic curiosity: uncovering and activating forgotten collections at the Australian National University.

12 AM DISCUSSION

1 PM LUNCH served at the Salvador Cabinet hall

2:30PM VISIT TO THE HERBARIA OF THE BOTANICAL INSTITUTE

3:30 PM CHRISTIAN STENZ Universität Heidelberg.

Beyond Coffee Beans. Coffee Plantations and Collecting Practises in 19th Guatemala.

4 PM SUSANA GARCÍA CONICET- Museo de La Plata.

Between spectacle and science: travelling exhibitions of seals and other curiosities in the mid 19th century.

4:30 PM OLIVER HOCHADEL IMF- CSIC, Barcelona.

Searching for the ideal zoological garden. Zoo travelers in the long nineteenth century.

5 PM MARIA ALEJANDRA PUPIO Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Salesian scientists in Argentine Patagonia in the first decades of the 20th century.

5:30 PM MIQUEL CARANDELL Museu de Ciències Naturals, Granollers

Scientific collections, historical archive and a specialized library of a middle-size natural history museum: the case of the Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers

6 PM DISCUSSION

7 PM CLOSURE

Contact – Aina Trias Verbeeck – tribeeck[at]gmail.com

28 mars 2023 – Nathalie Richard participe à une table ronde d’aide au montage des projets MCSA

Nathalie Richard participe à une table ronde virtuelle dédiée au montage de projets MSCA en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, que le Point de contact national France des actions Marie Sklodowska-Curie a organisé le 28 mars 2023, de 14h à 16h.

L’objectif de cet échange est de favoriser les réponses aux appels à projets européens en sciences humaines et sociales en France.