Decolonising Natural Science Collections
This conference was recorded and can be viewed online on our YouTube channel. [External Link]
All talks:
Nature Read in Black and White: An Update
Miranda Lowe, Natural History Museum and Subhadra Das, UCL
Decolonising Manchester Museum’s mineral collection – a call to
action
David Gelsthorpe, Manchester Museum
Mo Koundje: how gorilla histories can help decolonise our collections
Rebecca Machin, Leeds Museums and Galleries
Decolonise! Activations of natural history collections by international
artists
Dr Bergit Arends, University of Bristol
The political platypus and the colonial koala – how to decolonise the
way we talk about Australian animals
Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Colonial Critters: Decolonising the Powell-Cotton Museum
Rachel Jennings, Powell-Cotton Museum
Second Session Panel Discussion
Displays of Power: A Natural History of Empire
Hannah Cornish, Luanne Meehitiya, Tannis Davidson, Subhadra Das, Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL Culture
Ally Skills 101: Why Allies?
Hao Ye, University of Florida, Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio
The lost artists of British Enlightenment natural history
Isabelle Charmantier, The Linnean Society of London
James J. Harrison: Unnatural History
Jim Middleton, Scarborough Museums Trust
Legacies of Jamaica: A not so Elegant Priest!
Mama D Ujuaje and Rhian Rowson, Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
The description of each YouTube video contains the abstract for the talk. Each video has closed captions available.
The original programme for the conference is available here.
The conference abstracts are available here.