Past events
Here you will find information on conferences, lectures and seminars we have attended or organised.
- Hieke Huistra presented paper at conference "Discipline Formation and the Universities", 24 August 2010
- Marieke Hendriksen presented paper at conference 'The Body on Display'
- On 19 March, Hieke Huistra presented a paper at a symposium on the public use of Dutch nineteenth-century collections.
- Cultures of Collecting Specialist Workshop
- 'Cultures of Collecting' presented at Woudschoten Conference
- Rina Knoeff presents paper at 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' colloquium
- Marieke Hendriksen presents paper at 'Perfection et perfectionnement du corps' conference
- 'Cultures of Collecting' starts officially
Hieke Huistra presented paper at conference "Discipline Formation and the Universities", 24 August 2010
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Hieke Huistra presented a paper entitled "Right time, wrong place: collections and the institutionalisation of comparative anatomy at Leiden University." at the conference Discipline Formation and the Universities, organized by the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The two day (24-25 August) conference was held simultaneously to the International Committee of Historical Sciences congres in Amsterdam.
Marieke Hendriksen presented paper at conference 'The Body on Display'
On July 6th, Marieke Hendriksen presented a well received paper entitled "The Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Anatomy: the Anatomical Illustrations of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) and William Hunter (1718-1782)" at the conference The Body on Display from Renaissance to Enlightenment, held at Durham University, UK, July 6-7 2010. The conference was very well-organized by three graduate students, and over thirty PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers and professors from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia participated.
On 19 March, Hieke Huistra presented a paper at a symposium on the public use of Dutch nineteenth-century collections.
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Hieke Huistra presented a paper at a symposium on the public use of Dutch nineteenth-century collections. The symposium took place in Teyler's Museum in Haarlem. Eight speakers discussed different types of specialised collections; including collections of art, history, anatomy, natural history and physics. The aim was to discover similarities and differences in the development of these collections. Tony Bennett's The birth of the museum served as a starting point for the discussion. More information and a detailed programme can be found here (in Dutch).
Cultures of Collecting Specialist Workshop
From 5 to 7 November 2009, the Cultures of Collecting project organized a specialist workshop. We discussed the progress of the project with a number of our academic advisors and some additional guests in the historic surroundings of the Gravensteen. The workshop started on Thursday afternoon with a Salon Boerhaave lecture by professor Harold Cook, writer of Matters of Exchange - Commerce Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2007). On Friday we continued the workshop with a number of papers and presentations and a visit to the Leiden anatomical collections at the LUMC. The last day of the workshop, Saturday, brought more papers and final comments and was closed of with lunch. The workshop was very stimulating, thanks to our guests and their contributions. We look forward to meeting them again in the future.
SPNHC 'Cultures of Collecting' presented at SPNHC
On Friday 10 July 2009, Hieke Huistra and Marieke Hendriksen, both PhD candidates with the 'Cultures of Collecting' project, chaired an expert discussion at the international 'Bridging Continents' conference hosted by the Society for the Protection of Natural History Collections (SPNHC). Moreover, they presented the first results of their research at this conference. For more information click check the conference website.
'Cultures of Collecting' presented at Woudschoten Conference
On Friday 26 June 2009, Hieke Huistra and Marieke Hendriksen, both PhD candidates with the 'Cultures of Collecting' project, presented the first results of their research at the third Woudschoten Conference.
Rina Knoeff presents paper at 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' colloquium
On Friday 17 April 2009, Rina Knoeff, postdoc in the 'Cultures of Collecting' project, has presented a paper entitled ‘New Wine in Old Bottles. Herman Boerhaave’s Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology’ at the colloquium 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' in Wassenaar.
Marieke Hendriksen presents paper at 'Perfection et perfectionnement du corps' conference
On Monday 5 January 2009, Marieke Hendriksen, PhD candidate with the 'Cultures of Collecting' project has presented a paper entitled 'The role of perfection in the working relationship of Bernard Siegried Albinus (1697-1770) and Jan Wandelaar (1692-1759)' at the conference 'Perfection et Perfectionnement du Corps' at the Université Lyon 1. Later this year, a French translation of the paper will appear in the Alliage journal.
'Cultures of Collecting' starts officially
On 19 November 2009, the 'Cultures of Collecting' project was officially presented at the Leiden Anatomical Museum. After presentations of the subprojects, the guests were given a tour through the anatomical museum. Afterwards, the opening of the project was celebrated with coffee and cake.