Thursday, 10th of September 2009
11.00 hrs: Registration, Coffee & Sandwiches
12.00 hrs: Martin Lengwiler, University of Basel, Switzerland: Intersections between the history of knowledge and transnational history (introduction)
12.30 hrs: Saul Dubow, University of Sussex, UK: 250 years of colonial science in South Africa: An overview and a periodisation (introductory paper; chair and comment: Patrick Harries, University of Basel)
13.45 hrs: Session I: Mapping and exploring (part 1)
Bruno Schelhaas, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany: Africa made in Gotha: Cartography and Knowledge Transfer in the 19th Century
Guy Thomas, University of Basel / Mission 21: Faith in Maps: Exploring Horizons of Missionary Cartography in West Africa
Comment: Lorena Rizzo, University of Zurich, Switzerland
15.00 hrs: Coffee break
15.30 hrs: Jakob Vogel, University of Cologne, Germany: Localizing and delocalizing European colonial knowledge (introductory paper; chair and comment: Harald Fischer-Tiné, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
16.45 hrs: Session II: Mapping and exploring (part 2)
Franziska Suter, University of Basel: John Forbes, a Naturalist in the Service of the Royal Navy
Sandra Näf-Gloor, University of Basel: Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857): a naturalist’s career
Sonia Abun Nsar, University of Basel: Bowditch and Barrow: debates around travel and science in early nineteenth century Africa
Comment: Patrick Harries, University of Basel
18.30 hrs: Reception and dinner (offered by the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)
Friday, 11th of September 2009
9.00 hrs: David N. Livingstone, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK : Mapping Darwinism: Towards a Geography of Darwinian Encounters (introductory paper, chair and comment: Martin Lengwiler)
10.15 hrs: Coffee break
10.45 hrs: Session III: Knowledge practices between colonial and local actors (part 1)
Felicity Jensz, University of Munster, Germany: Turning missionaries into scientists: Moravian missionaries’ collecting practices and identity construction in the nineteenth century
Giorgio Miescher, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, University of Basel, Anna Vögeli, University of Basel: Rehabilitating the ‚Ovambo cattle’: Veterinary science and cattle breeding in early colonial Namibia
Comment: Heinrich Hartmann, Free University Berlin, Germany
12.30 hrs: Lunch break
14.00 hrs : Nancy Jacobs, Brown University, USA: Cosmopolitan Science, Respectability, and Defiance In a Segregated Life: Saul Sithole of the Transvaal Museum (introductory paper; chair and comment: Ulrike Lindner, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich)
15.15 hrs: Session IV: Knowledge practices between colonial and local actors (part 2)
Christiane Sibille, University of Heidelberg, Germany/University of Basel: Folkmusic research in a transnational perspective. Music as part of the League of Nations’ International Intellectual Co-operation
Lukas Meier, University of Basel, Switzerland: Between the study of nature and high modernism: Switzerland in Côte d’Ivoire 1920-1955
Daniel Speich, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland: Colonial Social Accounting and the possibility of economic comparison between the North and the South
Comments: Barbara Lüthi, University of Basel
17.00 hrs: Coffee break
17.00 hrs: Session V: Effect of decolonisation on knowledge institutions
Marcel Dreier, University of Basel, Switzerland: The scientification of rural public health interventions in eastern Africa: local practice and global debates 1920-1990
Hines Mabika, University of Basel, Switzerland: At the Heart of Transnational History and Medical Knowledge: Elim Hospital in South Africa
Pascal Schmid, University of Basel, Switzerland: A rural Hospital as a transnational hub for medical knowledge: The Agogo Hospital in Ghana
Comment: Franziska Rüedi, University of Oxford, UK
18.45 hrs: Concluding remarks (Patrick Harries, Martin Lengwiler)
19.00 Reception