Report for meeting with Maxine 19th of June 2012
My last report was from the 13 of March 2011 (annual review).
I thought I leave out the discussion of my publication and research plans for Europe’s Asian Centuries
since we will be discussing them shortly in Swaledale, so here is just a brief overview of what I have
done in April, May and June.
I have included some of the work I have done for my Swedish project; I marked it (grey) so you can
skip over it easily. I am aware that I have worked quite a lot on my Swedish project this spring but I
will make sure to compensate for it next academic year. Between the papers I will be writing for the
September conference in Stockholm (Innovation before the Modern. Cloth and Clothing in the Early
Modern World) and the paper for the Venice conference I am sure I will have lots of opportunities.
(Also, last autumn I travelled to Minneapolis and was involved in the Comparing Companies
Workshop while officially working for the Swedish project, so I already did have some time to make
up for).
Officially I will work on the Warwick project up until beginning of August, and then start again in
January 2013.
Teaching (April, May and June):
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Lecture 25 of April, Galleons & Caravans (“Exploration and Knowledge of the World”)
Lecture 25 of April World of Consumption (“Refining Asian Goods”)
Seminar 26 of April World of Consumption (“European consumption and production”)
Seminar 10 of May World of Consumption (“Connections, Contexts and Chronology”)
Marking 1/3 of extended essays for World of Consumption
Marking 1/3 of extended essays for Galleons & Caravans
Marking 1/3 of exam script World of Consumption
Marking 1/3 exam script Galleons & Caravans
Involved in preparing one lecture, essay questions, and reading for The Enlightenment
Involved in preparing lecture for Making History on history writing and museum (together
with Giorgio and Helen).
Archive work:
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Between 4 and 5 of June, visited to Riksarkivet, national archive in Stockholm
Also met with Leos Muller to discuss Venice conference and joint interest in Swedish East
India Company research
Planned Archive work:
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Visit to Rigsarkivet, the National archive in Copenhagen (July or August).
Conferences/Workshops etc. I have presented papers at:
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Global colours: Theories, Materials and Colouring Agents in Global History
Friday 27 April 2012, presenting paper “Colours in abundance and bundles – the sale of
Chinese silk textiles at the Scandinavian East India Company’s auctions”
“Between Metropolitan and Colonial Natural History: Swedish Naturalists in London”,
Linnaean Worlds: Global Scientific Practice during the Great Divergence, 1750-1850,
Pittsburgh, 4-6 May, 2012.
“Peripheral Emporiums - Selling Chinese Silk in Gothenburg and Copenhagen in the Mid18th Century”, Leiden-Warwick Conference, Leiden, 7 - 8 May, 2012.
“Little Brother Carl” – the Making of a Linnaean Naturalist in Late Eighteenth Century
Sweden, participation via Skype in the workshop Re:production of knowledge, University of
Uppsala, Dept. of intellectual history and science, 21 May 2012).
Forthcoming conferences and workshops I will present papers at:
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“Colours in Abundance and Bundles: The Sale of Chinese Silk Textiles at the Scandinavian
East India Company’s Auctions”, Innovation before the Modern. Cloth and Clothing in the
Early Modern World (Nordiska Museet, Stockholm) 27-29 September 2012.
”Building Central Collections – Linnaean Students at Work in London”, A Global History of
Linnaean Science, 1750–1820, 12 October, Stockholm, 2012.
“Scholarly underdogs in London – natural history at the end of the enlightenment”,
Enlightenment from below, 7-8 Dec 2012, UCLA/Clark Library’s Centre for Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Century Studies
“Tea and Silk: the Scandinavian East India Companies and the Market for Re-exported
Goods”, Goods from the East, 11-13 January, Venice, 2013.
Other workshops I have attended:
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Eighteenth-Century Clubs and Societies, Thursday, 17 May 2012, 10am-6pm, Collaborative
workshop between the Centres for Eighteenth-century studies at the University of Warwick
and the University of Birmingham.
Funding workshop 23 May 2012, University of Warwick.
Planning of future projects:
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26 of April, participated in the HERA meeting regarding the project Material Matters:
Europe's Material Encounters with the Wider World, 1500-1900 and my part of it (The Trade
and Consumption of Global Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Northern Europe).
Ongoing, planning for the conference Goods from the East, Venice, 11-13 of June 2013.
Ongoing, planning for workshop A Global History of Linnaean Science, 1750–1820, 12
October, Stockholm, 2012, hosted by Kenneth Nyberg and me.