The knowledge cultures of the natural sciences, humanities and literature are subjected to certain conditions by the media through which they are circulated, published and produced. Knowledge cultures each create specific media environments consisting of publishers, publication cultures and publication formats. Comparative art history would not exist without dual projection, humanities were long bound to the monograph as their central medium, and the digital humanities would be unthinkable without Twitter. The popular sciences are also often tied to specific media; one just has to think of the pictorial broadsheets on natural history published during the 19th century. The Forum Wissenschafts- und Buchgeschichte will be investigating the materialities of these knowledge cultures and is seeking contributions on the archaeology of knowledge history.

All researchers whose projects and planned publications deal with the materiality of historic or contemporary epistemologies are invited to attend. We are looking in particular for project ideas relating to research using digital methods or collections of source material.

Programme

• 13:00
  Christine Haug & Stephanie Jacobs
  Welcome
• 13:15
  Florian Grafl
  „Gesellschaftsskizzen“ als transatlantisches Wissensformat um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts
• 14:00
  Vera Dumont
  Mit Wissen werben? Buchgemeinschafts-Mitgliederzeitschriften als Wissensvermittler an ein Massenpublikum in den 1950er Jahren
• 14:45
  Ramon Voges & André Wendler
  Zur algorithmischen Auswertung des Börsenblattes für den Deutschen Buchhandel 1834–1945
• 15:30: Coffee break
• 16:00
  Arndt Engelhardt
  Moritz Veit (1808–1864) und die „Weltliteratur“. Eine unternehmerische Perspektive
• 16:45
  Erik Koenen & Juliane Pfeiffer
  Die Diathek Emil Dovifats
• 18:00
  Frank Fischer
  Liebe und Tod in der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Der DNB-Katalog als Forschungsobjekt der digitalen Literaturwissenschaft
• 19:00: Joint dinner at Bayerischen Bahnhof Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei, Bayrischer Platz 1

The first Forum took place at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2018. It is organised by the German National Library's German Museum of Books and Writing in cooperation with the Zentrum für Buchwissenschaft. Buchforschung – Verlagswirtschaft – Digitale Medien (Centre for Book Science. Book Research – Publishing – Digital Media) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Department of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (International Book Science Society).