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SUMMARY:Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in pro
 vincial France\, 1800-1860 - Déborah Dubald (European University Institu
 te)
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the 
 Centre for the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lun
 chtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length\, follow
 ed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm). All are welco
 me.\n\nDéborah Dubald (European University Institute)\n\nNature and loca
 l power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France\, 1800-
 1860\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn the wake of the nineteenth century\, the French 
 administrative and territorial maps had been deeply reshuffled. A new fi
 gure emerged\, that of the mayor. From 1800 to ca.1860\, his status show
 ed relative constancy: nominated by the executive power\, his function r
 emained perhaps equivocal as he represented the state as well as the int
 erests of his local community – which also included the management of mu
 seums newly born from the Revolution. However spontaneous or unfinished 
 they might have seemed\, they shared a common root in the museological s
 cience developed in eighteenth-century natural history cabinets. During 
 the first half of the nineteenth century\, museums were established as w
 ell-founded\, visible elements of the urban scientific space. Yet\, even
  if they were inspired from naturalist classification\, the share of mus
 eums dedicated to natural history was variable and dependent on the deci
 sions of individuals. As the key holder of authority but also as an indi
 vidual whose social practices were embedded in a local community of nota
 bles and savants\, it was the mayor who was at the heart of the decision
 -making process related to museums. In doing so\, he also partook in the
  elaboration of a discourse on nature: altogether a discourse on the mat
 erial dimensions of how nature should be displayed\, a discourse of just
 ification on how nature served public good and a discourse on local natu
 re as an instrument of appropriation of the regional space.\n\nThis pape
 r aims at illuminating the evolution of the practice of mayorship and mo
 re specifically the complementary influences of natural science and the 
 exercise of local power.
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LOCATION:2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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