Seminars

Anita Guerrini, ‘‘The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd’s Survey of Wales’’, 26 February 2025

Matthew Daniel Eddy, ‘‘Information Against Empire: Parliamentary Instructions, Colonial Databanks and the Subversion of Racialised Health’’, 9 December 2024

Maria Florutau, ‘‘Prize questions as instructions: useful colonial knowledge in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (1770-1800)’’, 27 November 2024

Laurence Talairach, ‘‘Women Instructing Women: Shaping Communities of Seaweeders in Nineteenth-Century Britain’’, 23 October 2024

Staffan Müller-Wille and Elena Isayev, ‘‘Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit’’, 29 May 2024

Bruce Buchan, ‘‘To ‘attract the attention of travellers’: Instructions, Race and the Science of Colonisation’’, 1768-1800,

Dominik Hünniger, ‘‘Is there a colony in this text? Instructions and (hidden) colonial infrastructures’’, 27 March 2024

Nicholas B. Miller, ‘‘Migrating Instructions: Wilhelm Hillebrand’s Mission to Asia for the Kingdom of Hawai‘i (1865–1866)’’, 28 February 2024

Irina Podgorny, ‘‘Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas and the genus MEGATHERIUM’’, 31 January 2024

Millie Schurch, ‘‘Paper Colonialism: Instructions, Institutions, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 1790-1815’’, 13 December 2023

Vera Keller, ‘‘Undisciplined Empires - Hints as a Colonial Genre’’, 29 November 2023

Caroline Cornish, ''A few plain instructions": William Hooker and 'A Manual of Scientific Enquiry' (1849), 25 October 2023

Andrew Curran, ‘‘The Bordeaux Academy of Sciences and the Great Race contest of 1741’’, 3 October 2023

Anne Mariss, ‘‘Packing the Natural World: Johann Reinhold Forster’s Short Directions (1771) and his Voyage to the Pacific’’ 29 March 2023

Simona Boscani Leoni, ‘‘Mapping Territories and People through Questionnaires: Strategies of Information-Gathering between Americas and the Apennines’’ 22 February 2023

Kelly J. Whitmer, ‘‘Instructed Collecting as ‘Serious Play’? Youth, Power and Object Pedagogies c. 1650-1750’’ 25 January 2023

Tim Fulford, “Empire of Skulls: Headhunting and the Discourse of Natural History in the Late 18th Century” 7 December 2022

Mareike Vennen, “Instructing, Preserving, Infesting: Living and Deadly Environments of Collecting”, 30 November 2022.

Catarina Madruga, “Instruction Manuals: Between Codified Collecting and Colonial Rhetoric”, 26 October 2022.

Workshops

Scientific Instructions and Colonialism: 1650-1850 Workshop, Uppsala University, 2025

Tell me where the women are…” WOMNH Network Launching Event Online Workshop, 2024

Women Collectors of Natural History in Nineteenth Century Britain Symposium, Oxford Museum of Natural History, 2024

An Entitlement to Improve: New Approaches to Enlightenment Ideas and Practices, Uppsala University, 2024.

Colonial Instructions: Knowledge, Genre and Power, 1700-1850, Uppsala University, 2022.

Humanity on the Move: Race, Landscape and Mobility in the Era of Enlightenment and Colonisation, Brisbane, 2019.

Eighteenth-Century Circulations of Indigenous and Lay Knowledge in the Transatlantic World, Linnaeus University, 2019.

Presentations

Linda Andersson Burnett & Laurence Talairach: “WOMNH-19: Women Collectors of Natural History in 19th-century Britain”, WOMNH Network Launching Event Online Workshop, 2024

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘The Human Body as a Museum Object’, Medelhavsmuseet, 2024.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Women collectors and the University of Edinburgh’s Natural History Museum c. 1820-1850’, Oxford Museum of Natural History, 2024.

Linda Andersson Burnett, 'Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum', for Cabinet of Natural History Seminar Series, Cambridge University, 2024.

Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Bodies of Knowledge: Race and Collection and Re-Membering the Colonial Past’, at workshop “Collections of human remains: ethical and practical considerations”, Göttingen, 2023. 

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Instructing natural historical travel: Linnaean natural history in Britain and its Empire c. 1750-1830’, Avdelningen för teknik, vetenskap och samhälle vid Chalmers och Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Gothenburg University 2023. 

Hanna Hodacs and Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Sámi Guidance and Botanical Confusion: Lars Montin’s Journey to Sápmi 1749’ at History of Science seminar series, Uppsala University 2023 

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Instructing racism: natural history instruction and the collection of skulls at Edinburgh University’s Natural History Museum c. 1770-1830’ at workshop Making science out of things: Objects and Knowledge in and between the Natural and Human Sciences, University of Vienna 2023

Maria Florutau, ‘Reformed religious networks and their contribution to the circulation of scientific knowledge in Enlightenment-era Transylvania’, J. Selye University, Komarom, Slovakia, 26-27 October, 2023

Maria Florutau, ‘Transylvania in the Northern Networks: The Adoption of Linnaean Taxonomy and Instructions in the Eighteenth Century’, Czech Academy of Sciences, 13-14 October, 2023

Maria Florutau, ‘What Transylvanian Philosophy can Reveal about European Enlightenment: The Role of Eclecticism in Philosophical Production between 1680 and 1780’, 16th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rome (3-7 July 2023)

Millie Schurch, “The British Colonial Botanist in the South Seas, 1770-1810”, Higher Seminar in the History of Science and Ideas, 23 November 2023, Uppsala University

Millie Schurch, “Instructing and Constructing Colonial Institutions: Joseph Banks’s Kew Gardens”, Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series, 13 December 2023, Uppsala University

Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan. 'Colonisation, Indigenous peoples, and the denial of privacy'. Centre for Privacy Studies, Copenhagen, 2022.

Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan, 'The Natural History of Man: Race, Climate, and European Exploration', The History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2022. 

Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan, ‘Racing the Curricula’: Teaching Human Variety c. 1770-1820’, Intellectual History Seminar Series, Edinburgh University, 2022.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Circulating Scientific Knowledge: Linnaean natural history in the Eighteenth Century’, Keynote lecture at Motions of Knowledge- Knowledge in Motion, Conceptualizing Knowledge Circulation for Historical Research,  15th annual graduate conference in European history, 2021

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Displaying Europe’s “Aborigines’: Sámi Indigeneity in Nineteenth-Century Transnational Debates’, Sixth European Congress on World and Global History, Zoom conference, 2021.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Linnaean natural history and colonial collecting’ Opening talk at the Researching Nordic Colonialism – Past, Present, Futures Zoom conference, 2021.

Bruce Buchan, ‘Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment’, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization Colloquium, 2020-2021, Florence.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Linnaean natural history: An eighteenth-century ecology of knowledge’ Keynote lecture, Norwegian Eighteenth-Century Conference Naturen og det naturlige på 1700-talle, 2020.

Bruce Buchan and Silvia Sebastiani, ‘Racing Humanity: Adam Ferguson’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy’, International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Edinburgh, 2019.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Savage Collections: The collecting and exhibition of Ethnographic Artefacts at the University Museum of Edinburgh c. 1780-1820’ at workshop Humanity on the Move: Race, Landscape and Mobility in the Era of Enlightenment and Colonisation, Brisbane, 2019.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘Instructing Enlightenment: Scotland, Sweden and the Colonial Ambitions of Natural History’, The ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment, The University of Edinburgh, 2019.

Linda Andersson Burnett, ‘A Linnaean Natural History of Man: Ethnographic Teaching at Edinburgh University’, Svenska Historikermötet, 2019.

Bruce Buchan, ‘The Scottish Enlightenment’s Failed History of Colonial America’, Thinking the Empire Whole, Macquarie University, 2019

Bruce Buchan and Annemarie McLaren, ‘Trading Places: Alexander Berry’s Navigation of Humanity as Physician, Merchant, Landowner and Historian’, International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Edinburgh, 2019.

Bruce Buchan, ‘The Colonial Limits of Universal History in the Scottish Enlightenment: A History in Fragments’, International Society for Intellectual History Conference, Brisbane, 2019.

Bruce Buchan and Annemarie McLaren, ‘Trading Places: Alexander Berry’s Navigation of Humanity as Physician, Merchant, Landowner and Historian’, International Society for Intellectual History Conference, Brisbane, June, 2019.