Past events
- 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.
