THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

12:00 Registration

12:30Welcome Address

Martin Mulsow, Director, Forschungszentrum

Gotha, Universität Erfurt

Nils Güttler & Ina Heumann

Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt /

PAN – Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für

Naturkunde Berlin

13:00Ware + House = Warehouse

Monika Dommann, Universität Zürich

Break14:20Frogs, Fossils, and Birds

Chair: Iris Schröder, Forschungszentrum Gotha,

Universität Erfurt

› 14:20

The Value of Biodiversity in Contemporary

Pharmaceutical and Biological Research

Klaus Angerer, Humboldt-Universität

zu Berlin

› 15:00

Exploiting and Exploring: The Oehningen

Miocene Fossil Quarries

Thilo Habel, Abt. Sammlungen und Archive,

ETH Zürich

Break› 16:00

Maps and More: Theodor von Heuglin in

Africa

Sven Ballenthin & Nils Güttler, Sammlung

Perthes und Forschungszentrum Gotha

Guided Tour and Talk at the Perthes Collection

in Erfurt (Sorbenweg 4)

Departure from Gotha Main Station at 17:32

18:15Economies of a Collection: The Archive of the

Perthes Publishing Company

Petra Weigel, Sammlung Perthes, Gotha

Dinner

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

9:00Intervention

Estelle Blaschke, École cantonale d’art

de Lausanne

Martha Fleming, The British Museum, London

Hans-Christoph Liess, TOPOI, Berlin

Break10:00Collectors, Trophies, and Models

Chair: Susanne Rau, Universität Erfurt

› 10:00

Collectors and Customers: Bird Collections

and British Natural History Museums,

1890–1910

Jennifer Thomas, The Rothschild Archive,

London

› 10:40

Hunting for Artifi cial Booties: The Feedback

Effect of Modern Visual Media

Matthias Bruhn, Hermann von Helmholtz-

Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-

Universität zu Berlin

› 11:20

The Value of Specimens: Anatomical

Collections on the Medical Market

around 1800

Thomas Schnalke, Berlin Medizin-

historisches Museum der Charité

Lunch Break

Optional

12:30 Guided Tour Schloss Friedenstein

13:15 Colonialism and Maps

Chair: Stefanie Gänger, Universität Konstanz

› 13:15

“Bringing the World to Forest Hill”.

The Colonial Economies of the Horniman

Collection

Nora A. Pleßke, Universität Passau

› 13:55

The Geographical Institute in Weimar:

Map Trade and Economies of Knowledge in

19th-Century Germany

Andreas Christoph, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus,

JenaBreak

14:50Technologies and Bones

Chair: Ina Heumann, Museum für

Naturkunde Berlin

› 14:50

Economy vs. Use: The Modellkammer

of the University of Göttingen in the

18th Century

Oliver Zauzig, Hermann von Helmholtz-

Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-

Universität zu Berlin

› 15:30

Dealers in Old Bones: South American

Fossil Mammals and the Emergence of

Paleontology (1790-1850)

Irina Podgorny, Internationales Kolleg für

Kulturtechnikforschung und Medien-

philosophie, Weimar

Break16:40Final Session

Chair: Nils Güttler & Ina Heumann

Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt /

PAN – Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für

Naturkunde Berlin

16:40Intervention

Estelle Blaschke, École cantonale d’art

de Lausanne

Martha Fleming, The British Museum, London

Hans-Christoph Liess, TOPOI, Berlin

17:25 Final Discussion

Economies of Collections and the Value of Scientifi c Things

Conference Programme

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Friday,November 22,

2013

Thursday,November 21,

2013

Economies of Collections and the Value

of Scientific Things

What is the value of a collection?

How does money shape scientifi c collecting?

Is there a marketplace for scientifi c things, a particular

economy?

In which ways are economic, cultural, and scientifi c values

intertwined?

Are expensive objects of particular scientifi c interest?

How much does a dinosaur cost?

Conceptualised and organised by

Nils Güttler, Forschungszentrum Gotha, Project “Globalization and local knowledge”, Universität Erfurt, Contact: +49 (0) 361 / 737 17 26

Ina Heumann, PAN – Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Contact: +49 (0)30 / 20 93– 89 77

The workshop is fi nanced by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur of Thüringen.

Registration: pan@mfn-berlin.de

Closing Date: November 10, 2013

Rathaus / BürgersaalHauptmarkt 1, 99867 Gotha