Workshop
Undisciplined Collections
- Date
- Friday 15 September 2023
- Time
- Location
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Gravensteen
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden - Room
- 0.11
This workshop brings together scholars trained in different disciplines who have been doing research on Indigenous collections histories, combining botanical, historical, archaeological, anthropological, and art-practice approaches in a collaborative framework. In doing so, they are pursuing a similar methodological effort of reconnecting nineteenth- and twentiethcentury materials currently separated in different heritage and research institutions to their histories, their makers, and their possible futures.
These studies go beyond object-level provenance research and try to reconstruct the historical conditions that allowed for certain collections to materialize, only to be separated later and ‘disciplined’ into distinct institutional repositories. Taking the definition of ‘undisciplined’ as ‘behaving in a way that is not properly controlled, organized, serious, etc.; lacking discipline’, we seek to ask what new insights can emerge and what potentials can be activated by looking at collections and their material traces from an undisciplined perspective.
Programme
10:45 – Mariana Françozo and Caroline Caromano
Introduction
11:00 – Viviane Kruel (Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden)
Ethnobotany supporting collaborative research in the Northwestern Amazon
11.30 – Mariana Françozo (Leiden University)
Reflecting on a collaborative museum project with the Ka’apor, 10 years later
12:00 – Q&A
12:15 – Lunch Break
13:30 – Caroline F. Caromano (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Seeds in Amazonian body ornaments: challenges and advantages of research combining Ethnographic collections and Naturalis’ herbarium
14:00 – Inez de Ruiter (Leiden University)
Provenance research of de Goeje’s collections formed during the Gonini (1903-1904), Tapanahoni (1904) and Tumucumac (1907) expeditions in Suriname
14:30 – Juliana Coelho (University of São Paulo and Leiden University)
Archives and narratives: the Balinese experience at the Colonial Exhibition in 1931
15:00 – Q&A
15:15 – Break
15:30 – Final Discussion