Before Resources: Managing Mineral "Treasures" in Early Modern Central Europe

Presentation by Sebastian Felten

Colloquium Humanities of Nature (online)

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Colloquium Humanities of Nature

hosted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Meeting ID: 963 6658 8279

PW: 700076

Wednesdays, 1-2 pm (CET)

Collecting Minerals, Extracting the Earth. Political Dimensions of Geoscience.

 

  • June, 19th - Maddalena Napolitani / Clotilde Savatier, Museo Galileo: "From the Extraction to the Exhibition «Collectible Minerals»" (Ecole des Mines’ mineralogy museum, Paris), 
  • June, 26th - Sebastian Felten, University of Vienna: "Before Resources: Managing Mineral "Treasures" in Early Modern Central Europe" 
  • July, 3rd - David Gelsthorpe, Manchester Museum: "Decolonising Manchester’s Minerals and the Ripples of Sector Change" 
  • July, 10th - Carrie Robbins / Selby Hearth, Bryn Mawr College:" Minerals, Knowledge Production, and Colonial Legacies"

Contacts: Ina Heumann (Ina.Heumann@mfn.berlin) & Angela Strauß (Angela.Strauss@mfn.berlin)