The project is holding a conference entitled 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions' on 15 July 2024 at the Linnean Society of London. 

Full details on how to register can be found here. 

The current schedule is: 

9.15 am

Arrival and Registrations

9.30 to 10 am

Introductions and Conference Opening

10 to 11 am | Collecting, Displaying and the Circulation of Nature 

Chair: Gordon McOuat, University of Kings’ College/Dalhousie University

10.00-10.30: Clare Tonks, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory | William Bullock: A Natural History Showman

10.30-11.00: Léonie Boissière, University Côte d’Azur | From Private to Public: A Transformation in Collecting Practices through the Baudin and Flinders Collections in Europe (1800–1825)

11 to 11.30 am

Coffee

11:30 to 13:00 | Natural History in the Americas              

11.30-12.00: Thomas C. Anderson, Yale University, Rage in the Air: Climate, Medical Topography, and Colonialism in France’s Eighteenth-Century Empire

12.00-12.30: Salomé Ketabi, EHESS Paris, From Natural History to Post-Revolutionary Politics? A Scientific Expedition for the New Republic of Bolivia (1830–1833)

12.30-13.00: Jordan Thomas Mursinna, University of California, Berkeley, Abolitionary Quinarianism: William Sharp Macleay in Cuba, 1825-1836

13:00 to 14:00

Lunch

14:00 to 15:30 | Images of Nature

Chair: Fiona Ainsworth, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

14.00-14.30: Cam Sharp Jones, British Library, Richard Wellesley (1760-1842) and ‘The Institution for Promoting the Natural History of India’

14.30-15.00: Katherine Enright, University of Cambridge, Natural History in and out of the Tropics: Assembling and Circulating the Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

15.00-15.30: Xingyu Chen, City University of Hong Kong, and Tsi Cong Han, University of Warwick, Reconstructed Nature and the Imagined Prosperity of the Qianlong Era: The Lemur and Political Metaphors in Guiseppe Castiglione’s Jiazhi guoran

15:30 to 16:00 

Coffee

16:00 to 17:30 | Revolutions in Knowledge

Chair: Staffan Müller-Wille

16.00-16.30: Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales, Saint Winifred’s Bloody Moss

16.30-17.00: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, University of Cambridge, Stars and Strata in Southern Africa: Colonial Entanglements of Natural, Earth, Cosmic, and Human Histories in the Age of Revolutions

Paper 11: Kencho Peldon, University of Queensland, Rethinking Natural History, Law and Science Co-production in the British Colony of India in the late 1840s

17:30 to 18:00 

Closing comments and discussion: Sujit Sivasundaram

1800-1900 

Drinks reception in the library