Please note that day 2 of the workshop (16th of May) is fully booked.
Aim of workshop
Few historians of science dispute that the histories of universities and academies, museums for natural history, or larger research consortia such as the Max Planck Society are important for our understanding of science. And yet the older history of science often did not have much use for it. The current interest in the “material culture” of science offers a fresh opportunity to revisit institutional history and bring it to bear on the history of science and the humanities in new ways. The workshop brings communities together that rarely speak: historians of science and the humanities, historians of universities and natural history museums, and historians of architecture. It asks how the architecture of these institutions, and the spaces and geographies that resulted from it, influenced teaching and research practices. What role did they play for the formation of disciplines as well as the very identities of the scientist and the humanities scholar?
Program
May 15, 2019
13:00-13:30: Arrival & Finger Food
13:30-13:45: Welcome & Introduction by Jan Willem Duyvendak (Director NIAS) and Fabian Krämer (NIAS / Vossius Center / LMU Munich)
Universities I
Chair: Josephine Musil-Gutsch (Vossius Center / LMU Munich)
13:45-14:15: Fabian Krämer (NIAS / Vossius Center / LMU Munich): How German Universities Became Spaces
14:15-14:45: Klaas van Berkel (University of Groningen), Island Nations in the Making. The New Laboratories and the Fragmentation of Dutch Universities around 1900
14:45-15:30: Commentary (Sjang ten Hagen, University of Amsterdam) and Discussion
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
Universities II
Chair: Niki Vermeulen (Leiden University / University of Edinburgh)
16:00-16:30 Jorrit Smit (Leiden University), Science Parks as Utility Spots: Knowledge Transfer & the Architecture of Universities
16:30-17:00 Ab Flipse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a Campus University: ‘Cité Universitaire’ between Dream and Reality
17:00-17:45 Commentary (Antonio Donato, NIAS / Queens College, CUNY) and Discussion
17:45-19:15 Jennifer Tosch, Katy Streek and Jasper Albinus, Presentation & Walking tour ‘Sites of memory’ (See more information below)
19:15 Conference Dinner
May 16, 2019
Natural History Museums
Chair: Philip Jones (NIAS / University of Adelaide)
09:00-09:30 Jutta Helbig (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: How Space Affects Scientific Progress in Natural History Collections
09:30-10:00 Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel (Naturhistorisches MuseumWien), The Natural History Museum Vienna: A “Gesamtkunstwerk”
10:00-10:45 Commentary (Geert Somsen, Maastricht University) and Discussion
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Architecture
Chair: Anita Hermannstädter (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)
11:15-11:45 Reinhold Martin (Columbia University), Sources: On Plants and Pamphlets around 1900
11:45-12:15 Petra Brouwer (University of Amsterdam), ‘Book Contstructors’: Architectural History Writing in the 19th Century
12:15-13:00 Commentary (Jorrit Smit, Leiden University) and Discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Final Discussion and Farewell
Background Sites of Memory – Emerging Memory
Jennifer Tosch and Katy Streek will facilitate a presentation & walking tour, which gives the participants an insight in their project Sites of Memory. Sites of Memory a theatrical boat trip about the colonial and slavery history of Amsterdam. Spoken word artists, dancers and visual artists work together bringing history to live with narratives and performances on board of the boat and on shore. The performance is a mix of past and presence, of what we know and would rather forget. The performance will take place in Amsterdam between the 20th of June and 7th of July.
During the 1,5 hours presentation & walking tour Tosch and Streek will introduce the performance project and how historical research, art and performance work together. We look at the traces of our colonial heritage and the role it plays in the present. How it affects our sense of space and identity. How artists give a contemporary look and response to the narratives and architecture of the historical buildings in Amsterdam and share it through performance with our audiences.
Please register by sending an email to Workshops@nias.knaw.nl
Please note that day 2 of the workshop (16th of May) is fully booked.
