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Schwaben Akademie Irsee HISTORY OF COLLECTING Collecting Nature 24 – 27 May 2013, Kloster Irsee 27 May, Südseemuseum, Obergünzburg & Kloster St. Ottilien 28 May, Abtei Ottobeuren Research in the history of collecting has often focused on collections of works of art and artefacts, even though the mediaeval and early modern kunst- and wunderkammern harboured both artificialia and naturalia from their very inception. In fact, some of the keenest collectors of art and antiquities, such as Cosimo I de’ Medici or the Saxon electors, were particularly renowned for their interest in the natural sciences, including geography, botany, and zoology. What started as a mass of curiosities – e.g. prepared animals, skeletons, minerals, and metal ore - soon was transformed into an insatiable quest for knowledge that was furthermore fanned by the age of exploration and the exploitation of faraway countries. Papers in this conference will focus on the intersection between the history of collecting and the history of science, while not forgetting the monastic or courtly context of provenance and display. Irsee is a particularly interesting venue for in the eighteenth century Pater Eugen Dobler had set up a much admired bird cabinet. Although no trace of this cabinet remains, the room itself still exists and will be used for the conference’s academic sessions. International scholars will be presenting, the conference language is English. FRIDAY 24 MAY 2013 6.00 pm Evening reception plus short introduction to the conference Collecting and Displaying Nature in Early Modern Japan Susanne Formanek, Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Vienna, Austria 7.30 pm Dinner SATURDAY 25 MAY 2013 9.00 am Welcome by Andrea Gáldy and Sylvia Heudecker “NATURALIA” AND “SCULPTURE” AFTER NATURE 9.15 am Charles Boyle and the Mathematisation of Natural Philosophy Ruby Paloma, Independent Scholar, Oslo, Norway Bergwerke & Handsteine in the Royal Swedish Collections 1654– 1720 Lisa Skogh, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden Discussion 10.30 am Coffee / Tea 11.00 am Animal Collecting at the Medici Court in Florence: Real, Stuffed and Painted Beasts as Evidence of Shifting Values in the Display and Conceptualisation of the Zoological “Other” Angelica Groom, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Casting from Nature: Wenzel Jamnitzer’s Metal Works for Kunst- and Wunderkammern Virginie Spenlé, Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich, Germany Discussion 12.30 pm Lunch NATURE AND NATURALIA INDOORS 2.00 pm Wonders on the Walls: Visual Presentations and Displaying Nature and Knowledge in Early Modern Private Collections Marcell Sebők, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Collecting and Cataloguing Art and Nature in a Venetian Palazzo Giada Damen, Princeton University, USA Discussion 3.30 pm Coffee / Tea 4.00 pm An Archducal Collection in Brussels: Archduke Ernest of Austria and his Collecting Ambitions Ivo Raband, Universität Bern, Switzerland Catesby’s birds Shep Krech III, Brown University, Providence, USA Discussion 7.00 pm Conference dinner SUNDAY 26 MAY 2013 9.00 am Guided tour of Kloster Irsee (optional) 10.15 am Roman Catholic mass (optional) SPECIFIC LOCATIONS OF DISPLAY OF NATURALIA: LIBRARIES AND WUNDERKAMMERN 11.15 am Nature and Grotesques: Pirro Visconti Borromeo and the Collection in his Villa of Lainate Barbara Tramelli, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany Scientific Instruments in the Ideal Early Modern Library Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, UK Discussion 12.30 pm Lunch 2.00 pm A Princely Plant Collector in Renaissance Germany Miriam H. Kirch, University of North Alabama, Florence, USA Ornithology in the Dutch Golden Age – captured specimens, the collecting of exotica Joy Kearney, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands Discussion 3.30 pm Break 4.00 pm The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and Circulation of Objects at the Early Royal Society of London, 1660–1677 Iordan Avramov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Carl Linnaeus & The Natural History Collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace Anne Harbers, University of Sydney, Australia Discussion 5.00 pm Coffee / Tea 5.30 pm Keynote Speech Archiving Eden Dornith Doherty, University of North Texas, Denton, USA 7.00 pm Dinner – Programme (may be subject to some change) – MONDAY 27 MAY 2013 Visit to the Südsee Museum, Obergünzburg and Kloster St Ottilien (Missions Museum) with lunch at the St Ottilien Biergarten. TUESDAY 28 MAY 2013 Guided tour of the Museum of the Abbey Ottobeuren in the morning FEE Fee incl. 2 x full board + 1 x half board (bed + dinner + breakfast) Single room 320,– € Double room 287,– € Conference fee 50,– € (excl. room and board) Lunch 16,– € Dinner 14,– € (must be booked in advance) CONTACT Sylvia Heudecker Schwabenakademie Irsee Klosterring 4, D – 87660 Irsee phone 0049 (0)8341 906-665 fax 0049 (0)8341 906-669 [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~