News & Events
Inaugural Natural Things Conference: Collection & the History of Science in the Age of Global Empires
Sunday, April 7 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Sunday, April 7 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
We cordially invite you to the Natural Things Project inaugural conference, "Collection & the History of Science in the Age of Global Empires." For three days, participants will share their current historical and digital research on natural things. Within this collaborative workshop environment, we aim to provide constructive feedback and next steps for participants' projects.
Mackenzie Cooley: “A Race for Perfection: Renaissance Horse Breeding and Its Material Remains”
Friday, October 26, 2018, 1:45 PM EDT
Friday, October 26, 2018, 1:45 PM EDT
MCI Theater, Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD, 20746
“Experts, Informants, Environments: Global Nature Studies in a Digital Age”
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 12:00-1:20 PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 12:00-1:20 PM
Building 160, Room 433A
Taylor M. Moore: “‘Living Fossils’: Pelvic Bones and Fertile Wombs as Objects of Natural History in Semicolonial Egypt”
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4:30 PM
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4:30 PM
Building 200, Room 307
Elaine M. Ayers: “Nature Resistant: Tracking the Strange History of the Corpse Flower in the Nineteenth Century”
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 4:30 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 4:30 PM
Building 200, Room 307
Natural Things in their Environments: A Global Perspective
November 9-12, 2017; Toronto, ON
November 9-12, 2017; Toronto, ON
History of Science Society
The Natural Things project is pleased to present two panels at this year's annual conference of the History of Science Society.
Mapping Objects, Mapping Science: New Methods of Early Modern Natural History
December 7-9, 2017
December 7-9, 2017
University of Göttingen, Germany
The graduate researchers of the Natural Things project are pleased to present our panel, “Mapping Objects, Mapping Science: New Methods of Early Modern Natural History,” at the opening conference of the Global Natural History around 1800: Collections, Media and Pedagogy project, the second of two conferences in Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1830.
Daniela Bleichmar: "History of Science in the Art Museum"
This event has been cancelled
Ben Breen: "Secret Books and Secret Nature in the Eighteenth Century Lusophone World"
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 12:00 PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 12:00 PM
Building 260, Room 216
This talk explores the imperial, commercial, and religious contexts that informed the creation of an anonymous 1764 manuscript (now housed in the Jesuit archives in Rome) that collected proprietary drug recipes from Jesuit colleges in Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Macau, and Goa. Meticulously crafted to resemble a printed text, this unusual manuscript highlights the tension between secrecy and openness in eighteenth century writings about tropical nature.
