Announcement: 24.02.2020 Workshop »The Imaginaria and Realia of Making Knowledge – the Power of Collections in the Early Modern World and Today«
3. Februar 2020
Collections, the practices of knowledge formation and the relationships between making and knowing have recently gained much attention in the history of science and in universities, museums and beyond. This process is influenced by a turn to the material and social contexts of science and knowledge as well as by the realisation that university and museum collections are particularly suitable to investigate these processes. At the same time, learning through reconstructing historical practices and materials (“making and knowing”) has become one of the most innovative methods in the history of science and knowledge today.
In a one-day workshop, sponsored by the University of Hamburg’s Zentralstelle für die wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen, Donna Bilak (New York), will present her research and artistic practice as a scholar and a maker. The workshop will also include contributions by Kelly Whitmer (Sewanee/Göttingen) and Dominik Hünniger (Hamburg) who will share their research and scholarly practices regarding the history of collections and the pedagogy of objects and in the Early Modern period.
Date: February 24, 2020, 10 a.m – 5 p.m.
Location: Universitätsmuseum, Universität Hamburg, main building (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 1st floor, 20146 Hamburg)
If you want to participate, please register with dominik.huenniger"AT"uni-hamburg.de until 13th February 2020.