Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg: The South Sea in the North Sea
Senior Research Fellow, Understanding Written Artefacts, University of Hamburg (2019-2020) The ‘Museum Godeffroy’ of Hamburg was both short-lived (1861-1885) as a public venue and incredibly long-lived in terms of its impact. Its extensive trade with other significant
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Exhibition Histories in Science and Technology
Exhibition histories matter to historians of science because, from the mid-1800s on, exhibitions have been created, produced, and experienced in almost all the sites of significance to science, technology, and medicine. This includes spaces such as clinics and labs
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Politics of Natural History
Natural historical materials, beyond the more obvious case of physical anthropology, have remained until quite recently largely outside of the important discussion and debate around heritage — both tangible and intangible — in relation to human rights and cultural goods across an
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Research Fellow, University of Göttingen (2018)
Deepening and renewing the connections between university research and collections, the University of Göttingen has created a ‘Zentrale Kustodie’ as a development centre for its extraordinarily rich collections, amassed over 250 years. It has a dedicated and highly trained staff under the
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Artists Work in the (Science) Museum
‘Science Lesson,’ Artists work in the museum: histories, interventions and subjectivity, Victoria and Albert Museum (October 2012) “Artists, curators, historians and museum professionals explore the history of artists as museum professionals, museum and archive as the content of
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Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors
Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors, Lecture Seminar, Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London (May 2012) Artists and doctors share highly developed observational skills and a fundamental love for humankind. This lecture explores some
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Navigating Interdisciplinarity
Navigating Interdisciplinarity, Wellcome Trust 75 Event, University of Dundee Life Sciences and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (2011) The extraordinary potential of interdisciplinary practice often meets bureaucratic obstacles. Enumerating them — and working strategically to eliminate
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Senior Research Associate: Reconstructing Sloane
Research and Project Management, Reconstructing Sloane (2011 – present) The vast Enlightenment-era collections amassed by Sir Hans Sloane are the foundation-stone of the British Museum, British Library and Natural History Museum. A major interdisciplinary digital humanities research
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Science Voices, Museum Lives
Co-organiser, Science Voices: Scientists Speak About Science and Themselves, Royal Society, London (May 2011) This conference explored the creation and use of historic recordings, bringing science and scientists to skilled historians and the general public through their
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