Hej alla, Varmt välkomna till nästa Zoom seminarium i seminarieserien Instructing Natural History! Den här gången presenterar Christoffer Basse Eriksen föredraget ”Botanical Bureaucracy: The Fall of Georg Christian Oeder and the Survival of the Flora Danica”. Datum: 28 oktober Tid: 15.00–16.00 Om ni vill delta, vänligen anmäl er genom att mejla oss på instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se<mailto:instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se>, så skickar vi en Zoom-länk. ABSTRACT: Between 1761 and 1883 the Danish state supported the publication of 3240 tables of indigenous Danish plants through the 51 fascicles of the Flora Danica. The history of the Flora Danica is thus a history of continued botanical efforts and state support, but it is also a history of dramatic changes. In this talk, I focus on one such shift, namely the removal of the first editor, Georg Christian Oeder, following the political downfall of Johann Friedrich Struensee. I argue that Oeder’s practice as Flora Danica editor straddled botanical and political-economic surveying, and that his fall should not be regarded as an exclusively political event. Next, through analysis of the bureaucracy of the distribution of the Flora Danica fascicles, I argue that the continued survival of the Danish national flora depended on its continued mobilisation as an instrument of statecraft by the King and his ministers. In the talk, I use the case of Oeder’s fall and the Flora Danica’s survival to reflect on the discontinuous nature of seemingly consistent projects of knowledge-making. BIO: Christoffer Basse Eriksen is associate professor of history of science at the Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus University. Since earning his PhD in 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin before returning to Aarhus University in 2024. His research investigates the early uses of the microscope in the Royal Society, the emergence of plant anatomy as a discipline, and the territorial politics of plant images. He is currently leading the research project “Sovereign Flowers,” which sets out to conduct the first large-scale study of the national flora of Denmark, the Flora Danica. Christoffer is also serving as Chairperson of the Young Academy of Denmark. För mer information om kommande seminarier: https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events Varmt välkomna! Linda & Maria Linda Andersson Burnett. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Senior Lecturer, Department of History of Science and Ideas / Inst. för idéhistoria, Uppsala University / Uppsala universitet https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/ https://womnh.hypotheses.org/ Latest publications / senaste publikationer: Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 (Yale University Press, 2025). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264388/race-and-the-scottish-enlight… Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett, 'Enlightenment enslavement and the Indigenous dead: trafficking slaves and skulls in the early colonisation of Australia, ' History Australia (2026): 1-19. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2026.2696924 Linda Andersson Burnett, Hanna Hodacs & Staffan Muller-Wille, "Writing History into the Economy of Nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Lars Montin (1723-1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly," Annals of Science (2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2025.2514438 Linda Andersson Burnett, '"Savage" Within: The Sami People and the Archaeology of Whiteness', Isis 116, no. 4 (2025): 766-777 När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy