Collectionner, cultiver et explorer au début de l’époque moderne
Journée d’études internationale
Informations pratiques:
Lieu: Paris, EPHE Sorbonne, salle J. Delamarre D059
Date: 11 Juin 2024
Ceux qui souhaitent assister à la journée d’études sont priés d’envoyer un e-mail à maddalena.bellavitis@gmail.com
PROGRAMME
10.00: Accueil et introduction
- Maddalena Bellavitis (EPHE) et Catherine Powell-Warren (Ghent University/FWO)
- Marie Bigotte, Durham University
Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Princely Garden Collections of Naturalia
- Madeline White, University of Oxford
‘Indian Maiz…in my Garden at Mitcham’: Global Networks, Local Gardens, and Oxford’s du Bois Herbarium
- Baijayanti Chatterjee, University of Calcutta
The Foundation and Growth of the Calcutta Botanical Garden: Plant Collecting and Botanical Science under the East India Company 1786-1815
- Anil Paralkar, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Ruprech-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, WittenLab, Witten/Herdecke University
The Datura in Gottorf: Botanizing, Ethnographing, and Imagining India in 17th c. Germany
15.00: Session de l’après-midi
- Seán Thomas Kane, Binghamton University
Cosmographic Singularities: André Thevet as a Collector of American Exotica (1556-1590)
- India Cole, Queen Mary University of London
The Duchess of Beaufort’s Pioneering Collections
- Silvia Papini, Università di Firenze – Pisa – Siena
Exploring Nature in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany: Mercantile Perspectives in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries
- Celia Rodriguez Tejuca, Johns Hopkins University
Stabilizing Materials Across Time and Space: A Natural History Cabinet in Eighteenth-Century Havana
17.15: Discussion et conclusions