[AIW] CFP: Mountain "global": a Comparing Story of the Natural Science in the Mountains, 16.-19. Century, University of Lausanne, Lausanne/Switzerland, September 3-5, 2020

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Call for Papers

International conference of the International Association for Alpine History
(IAAH)

Mountain „global“: a Comparing Story of the Natural Science in the
Mountains, 16.-19. Century

University of Lausanne, Lausanne/Switzerland

September 3-5, 2020

http://www.labisalp.arc.usi.ch/en/news/detail/28366 

 

Responsible: Simona Boscani Leoni, University of Berne/ University of
Lausanne 

 

Since the renaissance research on the indigenous nature in mountains regions
has experienced a major boom. After the discovery of America, the Spanish
crown started to claim „relaciones” (reports) from sailors, as well as from
local officials, to gather information about the nature and people of the
newly discovered territories. The goal of these consults was the
optimization of the administration in the overseas regions. Under the rule
of Philipp II (1527-1598) cuestionarios para la formación de las relaciones
geograficás were printed. They contained a lot of questions for the
officials in the colonies and asked them, to give written information
(Solano 1988; Álverez Pelaéz 1993). The subjects of a lot of questions were
the mountains and their nature (Mathieu 2011). At the same time, a similar
„discovery” of the Alps started (Korenjak 2017; Boscani Leoni, Mathieu
2005). Examples for this are the mountain ascents and the botanic researches
of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) (Boscani Leoni 2016), the geographic and the
natural history work of Josias Simler De Alpibus Commentarius (Zurich,
1574), moreover the text of Valerio Faenzi (approx. 1525-1598) (Faenzi 2006)
and Francesco Calzolari (1522-1609) (Calzolari 1566). A similar movement can
be observed in the 17th century in Tibet with the Jesuit mission.

 

During the 18th and 19th century, for exempla, the Andes, the Alps and the
Himalaja were once more a central focus of nature researchers, as the trips
to the alps by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), the Chimborazo
expedition by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), or the journey of the
Jesuit Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733) to Tibet (FIlippi 2014) prove. 

 

The case studies of the conference of the International Association for
Alpine History 2020 focus on the natural history research in mountainous
regions from 16th to 19th century and emphasize these three aspects:

*	The actors, objects and practices: Who were the actors of this
research? What role do local scholars or laymen play in this process? How
and what was researched and why? Which specimens (objects) were collected?
Where were they transported to and why?
*	Circulation of knowledge: How, where and by whom was this knowledge
received, translated, possibly transformed and applied in another cultural
context? How did the exchange of information and the circulation of the
results work and through what channels? An example for this is the European
reception of botanical research in Latin America: Francisco Hernandez (ca.
1515-1587), the court physician of Philip II of Spain, collected circa 3000
new plant species in Mexico and in Peru. He had to handle the problem of
translating their names from Náhuatl to Spanish (Barrera 2006).
*	Periodization: Is it possible to recognize different periodizations
of the research on nature depending on the mountain region and on the
research topic? With which changes (e.g. professional specialization,
professionalization of the research) can one explain the possibly different
periodizations?

 

Contact Info: 

Please send your proposal (with max. 400 words) until the 15th of August
2019 (15.08.2019) to:  simona.boscani at hist.unibe.ch
<mailto:simona.boscani at hist.unibe.ch> ; hotel expenses and – if possible
also – travel expenses will be refunded.

 

Contact Email: simona.boscani at hist.unibe.ch
<mailto:simona.boscani at hist.unibe.ch> 

 

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