Call for Proposals: Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories, Workshop, Hamburg 20.-21. March 2025

20.12.2024 von Friederike Odenwald

工作坊征集|动物与帝国：作为全球史研究方法的来源研究

汉堡2025 年3 月20-21 日

2024 年12 月20 日Friederike Odenwald

In recent years, provenance research on collections from so-called „colonial contexts“ has become a central field in addressing colonial legacies in Europe. Increasingly, natural history collections are coming into the focus of both provenance research and public discourse. In this context, collected animals present unique conceptual and methodological challenges. But they also offer new perspectives for historical scholarship on colonial history and its connections to questions of global justice and current ecological crises and for the growing field of human-animal relations.

近年来，对所谓“殖民语境”下的收藏品进行来源研究，已成为欧洲应对殖民遗产的一个核心领域。博物收藏品也越来越多地成为来源研究和公共话语的焦点。 在这种背景下，被收藏的动物为概念和方法论带来了独特的挑战，但也为殖民历史的历史学研究及其与全球正义问题和当前生态危机的联系，以及人与动物关系这一不断发展的领域提供了新的视角。

The workshop aims to foster an exchange on how postcolonial provenance research on zoological collections can be utilized as a method for historical research. The workshop is designed for early-career-researchers who incorporate postcolonial provenance research on zoological collections as a method into their historical scholarship. Based on presentations of participants’ respective research projects, the workshop offers the opportunity for mutual feedback and exchange on three main themes:

本次工作坊旨在促进交流，探讨如何将对动物学收藏品的后殖民时代来源研究作为一种历史研究的方法。工作坊面向将动物学收藏品的后殖民来源研究作为方法纳入其历史学研究的早期研究人员。在参与者各自的研究项目报告的基础上，工作坊提供了互相反馈和交流三个主题的机会：

*How does historical research on colonial zoological collecting contribute to new perspectives on colonial and environmental history, as well as for the history of science and knowledge?

*What methodological challenges do provenance researchers face in zoological collections?

*How do public debates about addressing colonial history and anthropogenic biodiversity change influence research about collections of natural objects?

*历史学对殖民时期动物收藏的研究如何为殖民史和环境史，以及科学知识史提供新的视角?

*来源研究者在动物学收藏品中面临哪些方法上的挑战?

*公众关于应对殖民历史和人为生物多样性变化的辩论如何影响自然物品收藏的研究?

This may include a variety of subtopics and questions, such as:

*How does the collecting of natural objects relate to the phenomenon of colonial collecting and looting in general? In what ways do actors, networks, and infrastructures differ?

*What questions and debates motivated and accompanied zoological collecting?

*How did the boundary between nature and culture influence collection practices, and vice versa?

*How can we conceptualize interrelations between zoology and the colonial and imperial project?

*To what extent can the knowledge produced with these collections be understood as colonial?

*Which role does gender play in the colonial collecting practices and in the produced knowledge?

*To what extent can engagements with colonial collections reveal suppressed natural knowledge of Indigenous and colonized societies, as well as alternative forms of human-nature relationships?

*How can collections become sites for a „more-than-human“ or „multi-species“ history?

What relationships exist here between colonial human-human and hierarchical human-nature relationships?

*How can researchers practically manage the often vast collections?

What challenges arise from the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, such as in dealing with biological taxa?

*What opportunities does interdisciplinary collaboration offer, and how can it be organized? How can scientific biodiversity research be combined with historical collection research?

*What specific challenges does working in or with collection institutions entail?

*How can collections and museums become spaces for addressing the entangled histories of the European appropriation of nature and its colonial and imperial expansion?

*To what extent can they facilitate public and global dialogues on issues of global (epistemic) justice and human-nature relationships in a (post-)colonial world and the so-called Anthropocene?

*What role do questions of intellectual property regarding collections and bioprospecting play in these debates?

*How can perspectives and knowledge from the former colonized societies be incorporated into the production of knowledge and meaning?

这可能包括各种子主题和问题，例如：

*自然物品的收集与总体上的殖民收集和掠夺现象有何关联?行为主体、网络和基础设施有何不同?

*推动和伴随动物学收集的问题和辩论是什么?

*自然与文化之间的界限如何影响收藏实践，反之亦然?

*我们如何概念化动物学与殖民和帝国主义项目之间的相互关系?

*利用这些收藏品产生的知识在多大程度上可以被理解为殖民主义的知识?

*性别在殖民收集实践和生产的知识中扮演什么角色?

*与殖民收藏品的接触在多大程度上能揭示被压制的土著和被殖民社会的自然知识，以及人与自然关系的替代形式?

*收藏品如何成为“超越人类”或“多物种”历史的场所?殖民时期人与人之间的关系与人与自然的等级关系之间存在什么联系?

*研究人员如何实际管理这些庞大的收藏?这个主题的跨学科性质带来了什么挑战，例如在处理生物分类单元时?

*跨学科合作提供了哪些机会，如何组织?如何将科学的生物多样性研究与历史收藏研究相结合?

*在收藏机构工作或与之合作会带来哪些特定的挑战?

*收藏品和博物馆如何成为应对欧洲占有自然与其殖民和帝国主义扩张相互交织的历史的空间?

*它们在多大程度上能促进公众和全球对话，讨论(后)殖民世界和所谓人类世中全球(认知)正义和人与自然关系的问题?

*关于藏品和生物勘探的知识产权问题在这些辩论中发挥什么作用?

*如何将前殖民地社会的视角和知识纳入知识和意义的生产?

Abstracts of approximately 300 words on individual projects, along with a one-page CV, are requested by January 19 and should be sent to friederike.odenwald@uni-hamburg.de.

Limited funds are available to assist accepted participants with their travel and accommodation costs. However, coverage cannot be guaranteed. Please indicate directly whether you require support for travel and accommodation costs.

请于2025年1月19日前提交约300字的个人项目摘要以及一页简历，发送至friederike.odenwald@uni-hamburg.de。

我们可提供有限的资金，以帮助入选参与者支付差旅费和住宿费用。不过，我们无法保证提供全额支持。请直接说明您是否需要旅行和住宿费用方面的资助。

来源：https://kolonialismus.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/2024/12/20/call-for-proposals-animals-and-empire/

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