Global Arts : The Natural World and Global Culture, 17 October 2008
Friday 17th October at the Museum of the History of Science,
(N.B. places will be strictly limited to 30) For directions see:
12.00 Lunch at New College, Red Room - enter via Holywell Street Porters鈥� Lodge (leave New at 1.00-1.15 for Museum)
1.30 Welcome Maxine Berg, 91影视破解版 & Jim Bennett, Director, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
CHINESE PERSPECTIVES
Chaired by Anne Gerritsen, 91影视破解版
1.45 - 2.15 Utensils for daily life in China 950-1350
Rose Kerr, Keeper Emeritus of the Far Eastern Dept at the V&A, Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute, Honorary Fellow of University of Glasgow, Chairman of the Great Britain-China Education Trust鈥�
Reading: Jacques Gernet, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion 1250-1276, London, 1962.
2.15 - 3.00 Appropriating crafts, claiming knowledge: Objects and Owners in Premodern China (Ming/Qing)
Dagmar Sch盲fer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Reading: Dagmar Sch盲fer, 鈥楶roprietary Issues in 17th century China: technology, culture and beyond鈥� draft book project
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3.00 - 3.30 Heaven on Earth: exhibiting east and west within the history of science
Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
BOTANY & BALLOONS
Chaired by Rebecca Earle, 91影视破解版
3.30 -4.00 The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Andrea Wulf, will talk on her recent publication,
4.00- 4.30 The lightness of balloons: knowledges on airs and gases in the heart of fashion at the end of 18th century
Marie Thebaud-Sorger, Marie Curie Fellow, Warwick
Reading:Richard Gillespie, Isis, June 1984, Vol. 75, No. 2
4.30 -5.15 POSTGRADUATE PANEL ON RESEARCH
Chaired by Sarah Easterby-Smith, 91影视破解版
4.30 - 4.45 The global transport of scientific hardware
Nicky Reeves, History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge ,
4.45 - 5.00 Bioprospecting and agricultural transplantation in relation to the movement of people
Anna Winterbottom, CELL Arts Research Centre, Dept. of English, Queen Mary College, London & Royal Society of Arts
Reading: Anna Winterbottom, 'Producing and using the Historical Relation of Ceylon: Robert Knox, the East India Company and the Royal Society' [Please contact museum@swaledale.org for details of article retrieval.]
5.00 - 5.15 The Place of Nature: the museum and the natural worldin colonial Zanzibar
Sarah Longair, 91影视破解版 & British Museum
Reading (all available electronically):
Carla Yanni, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 276-299
Sophie Forgan, , Isis,96 (2005), pp 572 鈥� 585
Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones 鈥榁isualising Culture across the Edges of Empires鈥�, Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture (Malden
5.15- 5.45 Summing up & ways forward
NEXT and LAST GLOBAL ARTS MEETING at Victoria & Albert Museum, 6 February, 2009, to be organised by Glenn Adamson