CONF: Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel (2 sessions at RSA 2024, Chicago, 23 Mar 2:30-6:00pm)

PROGRAMME:

2:30 PM – Traveling Engineers and the Collection of Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century English Empire; Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard University

2:50 PM – Annibale Carracci’s Arti di Bologna, Itinerant Tradesmen, Knowledge Networks, and the Travel Imaginary; Dr. Frances Gage, Buffalo State University, SUNY

3:10 PM – Travelogues as Mediators of Pharmaceutical Knowledge: Apothecaries’ Collecting and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe; Ms. Lisa Brunner, University of Graz

4:30 PM – Alethea Talbot Howard, Countess of Arundel (c. 1585–1654), and the “Indian” Objects at Tart Hall; Lucy Chiswell, The University of Auckland

4:50 PM – Journey and Knowledge in Laurentius Hoffmann’s Catalogue of a Complete “Kunst- und Wunderkammer“; Dr. Berit Wagner, University of Frankfurt, Germany

5:10 PM – Literary Kunstkammer: From Travelers’ Accounts to Collectors’ Cabinets; Emily Kang Ning Teo, Gotha Research Centre, Erfurt

Sponsor Organization: Society for the History of Collecting

Organizers
• Adriana Turpin, IESA Paris
• Sophia Quach, McCabe California State University, Long Beach
• Lisa de Zoete, Independent Scholar

Chairs
• Sophia Quach, McCabe California State University, Long Beach
• Lisa de Zoete, Independent Scholar

Panel Respondent
• Tracy E. Cooper Temple University

For more information, visit: rsa.confex.com/rsa/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7615
and rsa.confex.com/rsa/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7720