Program

Lehrdinge/Wissensdinge:
Object Pedagogies and Academic Collections 

Provisional program

~ All workshop events will be held in the “Emmy-Noether-Saal” of the Alte Mensa unless noted otherwise below .

Due to the pandemic, a limited number of in person guests are welcome.  If you are interested in attending please register in advance
Contact person: Christina Lange, Sekretariat (Professur Materialität des Wissens), christina.lange@phil.uni-goettingen.de ~

 

Sunday, September 5, 2021:  participants begin to arrive

16:00    Optional Walk through Old University Botanical Garden (City Centre)

18:30    Optional / casual dinner for workshop participants

 

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Monday, September 6, 2021 

09:30                Dominik Hünniger (Hamburg); Margarete Vöhringer (Göttingen); Kelly Whitmer (Göttingen/Sewanee): Welcome and opening remarks

09:45 – 10:30    Kelly Whitmer (Göttingen/Sewanee): Overview of workshop concept

10:30 – 11:30    Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Groningen): “The World as Mutable Mobile. Early Modern Object Pedagogies and the Intellectual Pleasures of Doing”

11:30-11:45  Pause

11:45-12:45      Jenny Beckmann (Uppsala): Handbooks as Proxy Plants

13:00 – 14:00   Lunch/Mittagspause

14:00 – 16:00   Place-based Roundtable:  Teaching with Academic Collections in Göttingen

Moderator:      Marie Luise Allemeyer

Participants:   Jana August (Kunst­geschichtliches Se­minar), Christiana Bers (Allgemeine und Historische Erziehungswissenschaft), Marian Füssel (Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), Daniel Graepler (Archäologisches Institut), Karsten Heck (Zentrale Kustodie), Miriam Müller (Blumenbach-Online)

16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break

Transfer to Forum Wissen Site

16:30 – 17:30     Tour Forum Wissen Site

19:00    dinner for all participants at Cafe Botanik 

 

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021  

9:30 Transport from Hotel to Physikalisches Cabinet

10:00 – 11:00     Tour Historisches Cabinet of the Physikalisches Institut

11:15 – 12:00     Michael Markert (Göttingen): “The ‘Circus Pohl’. Teaching Experimental Physics Using Light and Shadow”

12:00 – 13:30   Transportation to Alta Mensa and lunch break 

13:30                Panel discussion: “(Re)use, Method and Mobility in Academic Collections:  Three Case Studies (Göttingen, Vienna, Kiel)”

Alan Ross (Vienna), Dominik Hünniger (Hamburg) and Kelly Whitmer (Sewanee)

14:30               Elena Canadelli (Padua): “Teaching and Explaining Science and Technology through Objects: Science Museums and Exhibitions in 20th century Italy”

15:30 – 16:00   Break for coffee, refreshments

16:00               Anna Maerker (London): “Models and Role Models: Human Action, Community, and the Pedagogy of Objects“

17:00               Margarete Vöhringer (Göttingen): Closing remarks

Dinner for all participants at Fellini

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