Dear all.
I would like to draw your attention to Wednesday's seminar in the series Instructing Colonial Natural History at Uppsala University by Caroline Cornish: 'A few plain instructions": William Hooker and 'A Manual of Scientific Enquiry' (1849)'. Sorry for any cross postings!
Date: October 25.
Time: 15.00-16.00 CET
Location: Zoom.
For Zoom-link please email: instructingnaturalhistory(a)uu.se<mailto:instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se>
Abstract:
Britain in the 1840s and ‘50s witnessed the publication of a proliferation of instruction manuals on field collecting, targeted at those travelling in a range of capacities. Collecting institutions and government departments adopted this medium to direct the traveller in a manner that would best serve them in the acquisition of their respective desiderata, be that specimens, artefacts, or observations and recordings of natural phenomena. It was in this context that the British Admiralty published A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Navy; and Travellers in General in 1849. Edited by astronomer and polymath John Herschel, the Manual contained chapters on what were considered the major sciences of the day, each written by a leading authority in their field. The chapter on botany was written by William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which had not long previously passed from royal to state ownership. This paper will examine Hooker’s chapter in detail, teasing out the significance of his stipulations for herbarium and museum specimens. It will consider these within two overlapping contexts: the Baconian empiricist thought which strongly influenced scientific practice in the first half of the 19th century; and the emergent institutionalisation of science in colonial metropoles. In doing so it will address the question: what were the affordances and limitations of instructions written by metropolitan scientists in the mid-19th century?
For our seminar program and more information about our research please see: https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
All welcome!
My best,
Linda
Linda Andersson Burnett.
Wallenberg Academy Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of History of Science and Ideas / Inst. för idé- och lärdomshistoria
Uppsala University / Uppsala universitet
https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Member of the Swedish Young Academy
https://www.sverigesungaakademi.se/
Latest publications / senaste publikationer:
'Collecting humanity in the age of Enlightenment: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Edinburgh University’s natural history museum', Global Intellectual History (2022)
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'Humanity on the move in the era of Enlightenment and colonisation', Global Intellectual History (2022)
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NLHN Roundtable: Past, Present and Future of the Nordic Labour History Journals
Since the 1970s, labour history has been very successful in the Nordic countries. Like the development in other European countries, labour history journals were started in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The content mirrors the current development and the ambitions of labour history. But what do readers want to know, what should writers know when they submit their manuscripts, and what are the editors’ ideas?
Welcome to a round table open for dialogue between readers, writers and editors of the Nordic labour history journals. Tuesday, October 24, 14:00-15:30 (CET).
Participants:
Bent Gravesen (Arbejderhistorie)
Silke Neunsinger (Arbetarhistoria)
Ole Martin Rønning (Arbeiderhistorie)
Sami Suodonjoki (Väki Voimakas, yearbook of the Finnish Society for Labour History)
Nina Trige Andersen (Arbejderhistorie)
Vilhelm Vilhelmson (Saga, Icelandic Journal of History)
Alpo Väkevä (Työväentutkimus yearbook)
Chair: Jonas Söderqvist (Arbetarhistoria)
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Meeting ID: 965 547 9812
Passcode: 874095
Dear all,
Please find attached a CFP for a workshop in Gothenburg, 2-3 May, 2024: Challenging Concepts in Refugee History. Deadline for abstracts November 30, 2023. We would appreciate if you could circulate the CFP to others in your networks.
Best regards, on behalf of the organizing committee,
Sari Nauman
Sari Nauman
Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellow, SCAS
Docent in History, University of Gothenburg
Affiliated Scholar, Centre for Privacy Studies, Universty of Copenhagen
University of Gothenburg
Department of Historical Studies
Box 200
405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Recent publications:
Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe, eds: Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann & Leif Runefelt (London: Palgrave, 2022).<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1> (Open Access)
Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia, eds: Sari Nauman & Helle Vogt (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).<https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/private-public-in-18th-century-s…> (Open Access)
'Sweden Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity'<https://muse.jhu.edu/article/861704>, by Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist & Biörn Tjällén, Scandinavian Studies 94:3 (2022), pp. 352-381.
'Peripheral Promises: Political Oaths as Instruments of Trust and Control, Sweden 1520-1718', The Seventeenth Century 37:3 (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1949744
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