Event time:
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 4:00pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
Event description:
We are excited to announce the following workshop:
Understanding What Remains: Specimens as Heritage
An online workshop led by Elaina Foley (’23)
Monday, February 17 from 4:00 to 5:15 pm
This online workshop offers an opportunity to engage with the ways that meaning and materiality are produced within museum contexts. By examining proposals for alternate natural history institutions, exploring the material processes of conservation, and developing critical approaches towards specimens, participants will consider what kinds of heritage natural history collections might hold for them. How can we articulate, feel, and act on our responses to this heritage, and might these responses spill over into everyday life?
The workshop will be led by Elaina Foley, B.A. in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale in 2023. Elaina is currently an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow and has been working with the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Yale Peabody Museum, among others.
Admission:
Free but register in advance