Program

10.30-12.30 Section I (ZEU/148)
Taking and Caring: On Violence in Natural History, Part I: TAKING
/ Organization: Ina Heumann, Marie Muschalek, Tamar Novick, Shira Shmuely, Lisette Jong, Hannah Kressig, Annekathrin Krieger, Hanna Wüste

/ Marie Muschalek, Basel
Hunting Animal Specimens. Everyday Violent Practices of Knowing
Nature in Southern Africa in the Early 19th Century

/ Tamar Novick, Munich| Ella Tsahar, Oranim
Evasive Species: The Convoluted Battle for the Syrian Ostrich

/ Ina Heumann, Berlin
Looting. A political epistemology of collecting in natural history

/ Shira Shmuely, Berlin
Reassembling a Broken Family Tree: Parental Cultures in Orangutans' Display

10.30-12.30 Section II (ZEU/147)
Domestic and farm animals: Medical views and interventions
/ Moderation: Florian Bruns

/ Dorit Brixius, Dresden
Farm and veterinarian? Horses, animal diseases and medicine in 17th century Paris

/ Melanie Foik, Warsaw
Drunken dogs - The human medical view of animals and alcohol in the 19th century

/ Benjamin Prinz, Weimar
Between laboratory and mass slaughterhouse: the production of heparin in Toronto in the 1930s

/ Mieke Roscher and Ulrike Heitholt, Kassel
Multi-perspective negotiation processes. Dealing with foot-and-mouth disease between 1890 and 1945 in Germany as an interspecific practice

10.30-12.30 Section III (ZEU/146)
Plantation ecology and (colonial) animal husbandry
/ Moderation: Gisela Hürliman

/ Dennis Yazici, Mainz
Cattle-based Colonialism. Disruptions and continuities of cattle breeding in colonial Namibia (1892-1915)

/ Michael K. Schulz, Potsdam
Technology and animal welfare in pig farming from the German Empire to the 1930s

/ Alexander Silaen, Vienna
Colonial ecologies: Insects, plantations and knowledge production in Sumatra

/ Sarah Ehlers, Munich
Harmful animals - useful animals - One Health? Birds, locusts, mosquitoes and cattle in the debate on hazardous pesticides in developing countries in the 1970s to 1990s

14:45-16:45 Section IV (ZEU/148)
Taking and Caring: On Violence in Natural History, Part II: CARING
/Organization: Ina Heumann, Marie Muschalek, Tamar Novick, Shira Shmuely, Lisette Jong, Hannah Kressig, Annekathrin Krieger, Hanna Wüste

/ Lisette Jong, Amsterdam
Can Orangutans Speak?

/ Hannah Kressig, Berlin
Becoming Bonobo. On the Discovery and Collection of Bonobos in Tervuren's Africa Museum

/ Annekathrin Krieger, Göttingen
Multiple Forms of Care. The Life and Afterlife of the Chimpanzee Mafuka in Dresden

/ Hanna Wüste, Basel
Mausoleums of Knowledge: Colonial Trade, Biodiversity Loss, and Decay in Collections

14:45-16:45 Section V (ZEU/147)
Laboratory Animals and Animal Experiments - Animal-Human Relations in Medical Research
/Organization: Axel Hüntelmann

/ Volker Roelcke, Giessen
Animal-based - the animal model of human disease: Inherent
Problems and career of a central concept in medical disease research

/ Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Bielefeld
The mouse on the Orient Express. Of mice, humans and cats in toxoplasmosis research from 1940 onwards

/ Axel C. Hüntelmann, Vienna
"Care and Breeding of Laboratory Animals". Animal-human relationships in the laboratory and the emergence of laboratory animal science

/ Max Buschmann, Munich
Laboratory animals in the risk society. The securitization of research at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, ca. 1970-1990

14:45-16:45 Section VI (ZEU/146)
Of tentacles and transistors: Historical knowledge practices of pattern recognition
/ Organization: Rudolf Seising

/ Christoph Borbach, Siegen
An "order in the diversity of seemingly completely heterogeneous bird song structures": Albrecht Faber's basic bioacoustic research

/ Rudolf Seising, Munich
Learning like an octopus? An apparatus of the 1950s

/ Dinah Pfau, Munich
In the eyes of the cat: Neuronal vision in animals and technology

/ Susanne Schregel, Copenhagen
Commentary

18:30 Festive evening with award ceremonies and musical accompaniment by the Trio Nuages
/ Welcome by Noyan Dinçkal (Chairman)

/ Report of the Driburger Kreis

/ Presentation of the NTM Article Prize

/ Presentation of the GWMT Sponsorship Award

10:30-12:30 Section VII (ZEU/148)
Animals as objects? Knowledge, transportation, politics
/ Moderation: Stephan Strunz

/ Friederike Frenzel, Münster
"[A]ll the wonders [...] that God has heaped into any worm". Freshwater polyps in the experimental research of the Enlightenment

/ Oliver Hochadel, Barcelona
Shipping with tigers. Alois Kraus' animal transport from Java to Vienna, 1878

/ Carlotta Wolter, Göttingen
The 'Canis Sovieticus' - the breeding of service dogs under Stalinism

/ Martina Schlünder, Charité Berlin
Tarzan among the apes. An (almost) public animal liberation in Münster and its consequences

10:30-12:30 Section VIII (ZEU/147)
With all senses: Animals, media, emotions
/ Moderation: Dorit Brixius

/ Vera Straetmanns, Bochum
Plants and animals in comparison: The program of early plant psychology

/ Jan Brinkmann, Göttingen
Feeling the bees. Insect research, emotions and the senses around 1800

/ Anja Breljak, Potsdam
When animals become sensitive media: A different history of knowledge in modernity

/ Paul Jacob Moersener, Wuppertal
Animals in front of the camera. Film as research technology in the behavioral biology of the 1960s

10:30-12:30 Section IX (ZEU/146)
(Im)permeable borders: Medical Exchange during the Cold War
/ Organization: Alexa Geisthövel
/ Moderation: Volker Hess

/ Fruzsina Müller, Berlin
International cooperation in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases in divided Europe (1945-1989)

/ Alexa Geisthövel, Berlin
"Budapest, we have a kidney": The beginnings of European organ exchange organizations (1965-1980)

/ Tomáš Filip, Berlin
Medical cooperation in patient care between two Eastern Bloc countries

/ Jakub Střelec, Berlin
Aggressive behavior in the laboratory. Czechoslovak pharmacology and international aggression research in the 1970s and 1980s