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Thursday, December 1

Introduction: Sue Ann Prince (Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum)
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Burkhardt, Jr.
(Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Civilizing Specimens and Citizens at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1793-1830″
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Friday, December 2

Welcome and introduction: Sue Ann Prince (Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum)
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Session 1: About Gardens and Gardening
Chair: Carol Solomon (Visiting Associate Professor, Haverford College)

• Bernard Chevallier (Former Director, Musée des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau)
“Empress Josephine and Natural Science”
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• Susan Taylor-Leduc (Independent Scholar, Associate Professor Trinity College, Paris)
“Josephine as Shepherdess: The Merinos at Malmaison”
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• Paula Young Lee (Faculty Fellow, Tufts University)
“Of Cabbages and Kings: The Politics of Planting Vegetables at the Jardin des Plantes”
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• Antoine Jacobsohn (Responsable du Potager du Roi, Versailles)
“Seed origins: Collecting, Breeding, and Selling New Varieties of Fruits and Vegetables in Post-Revolutionary France”
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• Panel Discussion
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Session 2: Natural History and French Culture
Chair: Andrea Goulet (Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania)
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• Claudine Cohen (Co-directrice: Programme de Recherches Interdisciplinaires “Biologie et Société” Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales)
“The Quest for ‘Lost Worlds’: Intellectual Revolutions and Mutations of the Imagination at the Turn of the 19th Century
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• Goran Blix (Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University)
“Social Species in the Comédie Humaine: Balzac’s Use of Natural History”
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• John Tresch (Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
“The Animal Series and the Birth of Socialism”
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• Alain Lescart (Professor of French and Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University)
“An Egyptian Giraffe and Six Osage Indians: An Exotic Advocacy against the 1827 Censorship In France”
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• Denise Davidson (Associate Professor, History, Georgia State University)
“Domesticating the Exotic: the Giraffe Craze and French Consumer Culture
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Panel Discussion
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Saturday, December 3

Introduction: Sue Ann Prince (Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum)
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Session 3: Making Art, Communicating Science
Chair: Paula Young Lee (Faculty Fellow, Tufts University)

• Pierre-Yves Lacour (Maître de conférences en histoire moderne, l’Université de Montpellier III)
“Picturing Nature: The Engravings of the Annales du Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1802-1813″
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• Madeleine Pinault Sorensen (Chargée de recherches honoraire, musée du Louvre, Paris)
“Representing Animals with Empathy, 1793-1810 (Répresenter l’animal avec empathie)”
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• Dorothy Johnson (Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History, University of Iowa)
“Botany and the Painting of Flowers: Intersections of the Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts in late 18th and 19th Century France”
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• Daniel Harkett (Assistant Professor, Dept. of History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design)
“Displaying Zarafa’s Keepers”
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• Anne Lafont (Conseillère scientifique, Institut national d’histoire de l’art)
“Visual Terms of Cultural Encounter: The Australian Experiment by Petit, Lesueur, and Cuvier”
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Panel Discussion
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Introduction: Sue Ann Prince (Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum)
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Session 4: Cultivating Useful Knowledge
Chair: Sara Gronim (Associate Professor of History, Long Island University)

• Elizabeth Hyde (Assistant Professor of History, Kean University)
“André Michaux and French Botanical Diplomacy in the Cultural Construction of Natural History in the Atlantic World”
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• Elise Lipkowitz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Michigan)
“The ‘Elephant’ in the Room: The French Seizure of the Dutch Stadholder’s Collection and the Cosmopolitan Ideals of the Scientific Republic of Letters”
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Response: Sara Gronim (Associate Professor of History, Long Island University)
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Panel Discussion
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Wrap-Up:
Anne Lafont (Conseillère scientifique, Institut national d’histoire de l’art)
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Bernadette Bensaude Vincent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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Closing Remarks:
Sue Ann Prince (Founding Director and Curator, APS Museum)
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