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Natural History Museum Collections & Culture workshop

Name: Natural History Museum Collections & Culture workshop
Start: 2023-11-20T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-20T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)

20 November 2023 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

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As part of the University’s developing partnership with the Natural History Museum (NHM), and as a return visit by NHM curators and researchers to the trip a number of us made to South Kensington in early May, we will be holding a joint workshop day at The MERL on 20th November 11-4pm.

Organised in collaboration with colleagues in UMASCS and the Collections and Culture Theme at NHM, the day will be a chance to develop individual relationships, share research enthusiasms and to advance more concrete plans to develop joint activities, including joint grant applications and doctoral training collaborations.

Agenda

11:00	Welcome and coffee
11:15	1-minute introductions. Slides are encouraged from all participants in advance (please submit to Beth Steiner: e.steiner@reading.ac.uk by 14^th November).
12:15	Object-based discussion
13:15	Lunch
14:00	Strategic breakout groups I Proposed themes include: Maritime Exploration and Monitoring [voyages of discovery; collectors at sea and maritime impact of collections; aligning specimens and documentation with ships’ logs and written histories] India and Hidden Collectors [botanical hidden histories; decolonisation of collections; exploring the histories of the people who collected the specimens but whose names don’t feature in the record] One Health [the integrated health of people, animals, plants, and environment; zoonotic research; the human-nature relationship from the past to the future and the public dialogue around it] Creative Approaches to the Natural History Museum’s Collections, especially visual and material culture, including data and digitisation
15:00	Refreshments
15:10	Strategic breakout groups II – feedback and future planning.
16:00	End

These breakout group themes are not exhaustive and we would welcome further suggestions for breakout groups, which we can facilitate according to demand. Please respond to the question in the form when you register so we can try to accommodate as many areas of interest as possible.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register here by Friday 3^rd November.

Details

Date:: 20 November 2023
Time:: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Event Category:: Heritage & Creativity
Event Tags:: natural history museum, nhm

Venue

Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL); Redlands Road
Reading, RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
Phone:: +44 (0) 118 378 8660; View Venue Website