Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge,
18-19 June 2010
9.30 Introduction and Greeting by Organizers
Morning Session: Making Orders
Chair: Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge
10-11: Peter Anstey, Philosophy, University of Otago ‘Essentialism and Baconian natural history in the late seventeenth century’
11-12: Brian Ogilvie, History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ‘Order of Insects: Insect Species from Jan Swammerdam to John Ray’
12-2: Lunch
Afternoon Session: Gathering and Assembling
Chair: Emma Spary, UCL
2-3: Alix Cooper, History, SUNY, Stony Brook ‘Dealing in Difference: Commerce and Natural History in Early Enlightenment Danzig’
3-4: James Delbourgo, History, Rutgers University ‘Putting Jamaica on Paper: Assembling Species in Providential England’
4-4.30 Tea and Coffee Break
4.30-5.30: Kelly Whitmer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ‘Gathering kinds, assembling models: Pietist philanthropy's global enterprises, 1700-1730’
7.30: Conference Dinner
Saturday 19 June
Morning Session: Race and Monsters
10-11: Justin E. H. Smith, Philosophy, Concordia University ‘Race, Geschlecht, and Generational Series in Leibniz’
11-12: Daniel Carey, English, National University of Ireland ‘Locke’s Monsters’
12-2: Lunch
Afternoon Session: Linnaean Retrospective and Conclusion
2-3: Staffan Müller-Wille, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter ‘Taxonomic Wars: Seventeenth Century Debates from the Point of View of Linnaeus’
3-4.30: Roundtable Discussion: organizers, participants, audience
End of Conference
Provisional Programme
Organizers: James Delbourgo (Rutgers), Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia)
9.30 Introduction and Greeting by Organizers
Morning Session: Making Orders
Chair: Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge
10-11: Peter Anstey, Philosophy, University of Otago ‘Essentialism and Baconian natural history in the late seventeenth century’
11-12: Brian Ogilvie, History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ‘Order of Insects: Insect Species from Jan Swammerdam to John Ray’
12-2: Lunch
Afternoon Session: Gathering and Assembling
Chair: Emma Spary, UCL
2-3: Alix Cooper, History, SUNY, Stony Brook ‘Dealing in Difference: Commerce and Natural History in Early Enlightenment Danzig’
3-4: James Delbourgo, History, Rutgers University ‘Putting Jamaica on Paper: Assembling Species in Providential England’
4-4.30 Tea and Coffee Break
4.30-5.30: Kelly Whitmer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ‘Gathering kinds, assembling models: Pietist philanthropy's global enterprises, 1700-1730’
7.30: Conference Dinner
Saturday 19 June
Morning Session: Race and Monsters
10-11: Justin E. H. Smith, Philosophy, Concordia University ‘Race, Geschlecht, and Generational Series in Leibniz’
11-12: Daniel Carey, English, National University of Ireland ‘Locke’s Monsters’
12-2: Lunch
Afternoon Session: Linnaean Retrospective and Conclusion
2-3: Staffan Müller-Wille, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter ‘Taxonomic Wars: Seventeenth Century Debates from the Point of View of Linnaeus’
3-4.30: Roundtable Discussion: organizers, participants, audience
End of Conference
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