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SUMMARY:Collecting Nature: Histories\, Legacies and Living Worlds
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on natural collections and the
  work of Henry Dresser.\n\nThis event is of interest to those interactin
 g with natural history collections.\n\nWhat does it mean to ‘collect' th
 e natural world\, and how can collections created in the past shape know
 ledge today?\n\nFocusing on nineteenth-century British natural history\,
  this Research Café explores the people\, practices\, power relations an
 d institutions behind the creation of such collections. Drawing on the h
 oldings of Manchester Museum and The John Rylands Library\, it will also
  examine how historic collections are encountered\, interpreted and reim
 agined by researchers and cultural heritage professionals today\, and wh
 at role creativity plays in those processes.\n\nThe talk will be followe
 d by an opportunity to interact with the collections in a session led by
  the curators.\n\nEvent Agenda:\n\n12:00 - 12:30pm - Networking and refr
 eshments\n\n12:30 - 2pm - Talks from the speakers and a Q&A\n\n2pm - 2:3
 0pm - Looking over the collections with the curators\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n
 \nErin Beeston is an interdisciplinary researcher\, historian of science
 \, and a former museum professional. Erin has researched University coll
 ections for the 'Cottonopolis Collective: Lessons for environmental scie
 nce through the lens of Manchester' project (2022-23)\, and continues to
  support the activity of the Collective.\n\nJo Castle joined the Imaging
  team at the John Rylands Library in 2019\, becoming a Senior Photograph
 er in 2024. She currently leads digitisation projects and helps develop 
 the Rylands’ 3D Imaging practice using photogrammetry\, structured-light
  scanning 3D modelling.\n\nClara Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Victorian 
 Literature at the University of Manchester. She is currently researching
  birds in poetry and natural history in the 19th century and has recentl
 y curated a digital exhibition with Manchester Museum titled: Dead or Al
 ive: Birds in our World.\n\nAurora Fredriksen is a Senior Lecturer in Hu
 man Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research centres on t
 he intersection between planetary ecological crisis and everyday encount
 ers with wildlife. Her forthcoming paper ‘Dead Animal Geographies’ grapp
 les with the ethics of conducting non-scientific research with ornitholo
 gical collections.\n\nGlenn Roadley is Curator of Zoology at Manchester 
 Museum\, responsible for the care of and access to the museum’s collecti
 on of almost 1 million animal specimens. His role involves developing di
 splays and exhibitions\, answering enquiries\, preparing loans and facil
 itating access for researchers.\n\nDuncan Wilson is Senior Lecturer in t
 he University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science\, Techno
 logy and Medicine. He is currently finishing a book on the history of po
 stwar conservation\, titled Urgent Case or Lost Cause\, which charts the
  scientific\, political\, social\, and economic factors that led some en
 dangered species to be valued more than others from roughly 1945 to 1985
 .\n\nSteven Hartshorne will be sharing items from the Special Collection
 s. He is Senior Curator and Curator of Science\, Technical and Medical R
 are Books at the John Rylands Library.
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LOCATION:Events Space\, John Rylands Research Institute and Library\, 150
  Deansgate\, Manchester\, Gtr Manchester\, M3 3EH
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