Colloquium Humanities of Nature

Online Colloquium September – December 2023

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

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

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Meeting-ID: 916 4253 0745

Kenncode: 419027

Wednesdays, 1-2 pm (CET)

Collecting Minerals, Extracting the Earth.

Political Dimensions of Geoscience

Sep., 27th «Can you pull Blood from a Stone?»

Niamh Schmittke, EARTH artist, Berlin and London

Oct., 4th Entirely new and very old Water:

Elemental Shifts in the Atacama Mining Desert’s relations

with the Pacific, the Andes, and Chile

Andrea Westermann, University of Konstanz

Oct., 11th Catalogues, Collections, Communication:

Between Mineralogical Knowledge and Appropriation

Marianne Klemun, University of Vienna

Nov., 8th Decolonising Manchester’s Minerals

and the Ripples of Sector Change

David Gelsthorpe, Manchester Museum

Nov., 15th On the Mineralogy Collections of the École des Mines de Paris: From the Extraction to the Exhibition «Collectible Minerals»

Maddalena Napolitani, Museo Galileo

Nov., 22nd Minerals, Knowledge Production, and Colonial Legacies

Carrie Robbins and Selby Hearth, Bryn Mawr College

Nov., 29th Extractivist Conservation

Linda Poppe, Survial International, and Tahani Nadim, Humanities of Nature

Dec., 6th Rock, Paper, Scissors:

Managing Mineral ‘Treasures' in 18th-Century Germany

Sebastian Felten, University of Vienna