SHNH Early Career Researcher Symposium Announcement & Programme, Thursday 23 February online. A conference expressly to showcase research into the history of natural history being done by doctoral and early careers researchers across the globe
For the first time in its history, the Society is holding a conference expressly to showcase research into the history of natural history being done by doctoral and early careers researchers across the globe. This builds on the Society’s already successful annual William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize, awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history, which is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students worldwide.
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Download 2023 SHNH Early Career Researcher Symposium Programme and Abstracts
For this symposium we have welcomed papers from across the field which speak to any aspects of the history of natural history. The speakers have been drawn from individuals registered for PhD programmes or within 3 years of being awarded their doctorate.
Speakers have been convened into sessions of related 15-20 minute papers with a shared session for questions at the end of each session. Please see the programme below.
Programme
9:15am Welcome
9:30am – 11am Session One
Calaway Dodson, Carlyle Luer, and the creation of the Herbario del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Quito
Javier Ramiro Poveda Figueroa, Universitate Autonama de Barcelona
The Jesuit encounter with natural history in India: a century of observations in the Journal of Bombay Natural History Society
Joseph Satish Vedanayagam, St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai
Catching rhinos & understanding tigers: indigenous knowledge in the expeditions of the Natuurkundige Commissie
Pieter van Wingerden, Leiden University
Break
11:30am – 1pm Session Two
Private trading and animal profit: A history of Dr Alwin Haagner’s directorship and departure from South Africa’s National Zoological Garden, c.1913–1926
Mia Uys, University of Cape Town
‘One thing stands beyond doubt that Taoung Taloung is not white. He is literally the darkest elephant in the whole collection’: sanctity, whiteness, and Barnum’s Burmese Elephant at the London Zoo (c.1884)
Daniel Phillips, University of Exeter
Settler apathy and indigenous flora: the difficulties in compiling a new Flora Capensis in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony
Dr Katherine Arnold, University of Liverpool
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm Session Three
Ontario fruitgrowers and fireblight: a tangled web of knowledge creation and communication
Kathryn Bruce, University of St Andrews
Salvaging and the natural history collecting of George Handisyd, surgeon, 1686–1692
Brad Scott, Queen Mary, University of London
Collecting and picturing the Earth: history of geology and mineralogy through the case of the École des Mines in Paris (18–19th centuries)
Maddalena Napolitani, Università dell’Insubria
Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm Session Four
Elizabeth Gwillim’s botany. Sex, art, and science in imperial India, 1801–1807
Ciel Haviland, McGill University
Butterfly dust on the canvas: the lepidochromy technique between art and natural history
V. E. Mandrij, University of Konstanz
The illustrated natural history of Brazil
Thabata Tosta, University of Porto
5:30-5:45 – Closing Remarks
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