Cultures of Collection

A One-Day Conference at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.

Speakers:

Vicky Carroll, ‘Charles Waterton: Collector and Storyteller’
Helen Cowie (York), ‘Collecting and Community: Provincial Zoological gardens in Early 19th-Century Britain’
Nicholas Dew (McGill), ‘Collecting Global Data in Enlightenment Paris’
Arlene Leis (York), ‘Accumulating Sociability: Visitor Cards in the Paper Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks’
Stephanie Pratt (Plymouth), ‘Collecting American Indian Culture in Paris and London, 1700-1750’
Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham), ‘”A Peep at the Natives”: Collecting, Exhibiting and Studying Foreign Peoples’
Ruth Scobie (York), ‘”Shall nought but ghosts and trinkets be display’d?”: Gothic Owyheee in Eighteenth-Century Museums’
Tom Stammers (Cambridge), ‘Scavengers Beneath the Guillotine: Collecting and Chronicling the French Revolution’

Conference website:

http://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/conferenceculturesofcollection/