With apologies for cross-posting. Katy
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Please join us for a series of seminars at the National Maritime Museum,
which consider questions around the histories of art, science and
exploration. The next one is on 20th November and discusses 'Finding
Voices and Re-shaping History'. Details for that and the rest of the
series are below.
More on the broader 'Travellers' Tails' project, of which these seminars
are part, can be found at http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/travellers-tails/.
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Travellers’ Tails seminars
18.00–21.00 The Queen’s House
£8, Members and concessions £6
Evening seminars with a limited number of places and a glass of wine,
the Travellers’
Tails series examines key questions around the history of art, science
and
exploration, drawing on George Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ paintings
recently
acquired by the Royal Museums Greenwich. Artists, scientists, explorers
and
museum professionals will consider the nature of 18th-century
exploration and how
these histories can be experienced in a modern museum setting.
Finding voices and re-shaping history
Thursday 20 November
Join Dr Lowri M. Jones, Research Fellow at University of Nottingham and
artistresearcher
Dr Edwina Fitzpatrick to question what the alternative histories of
exploration are to that of a series of heroes and the role local peoples
and
intermediaries had and have today in the making of geographical,
ethnographic and
anthropological knowledge.
Empire and the museum
Thursday 4 December
With Dr Sarah Longair, Education Manger at the British Museum and
Professor
Elizabeth Edwards, Director of Photographic History Research Centre at
De Montfort
University, explore how Empire is represented in museums and what is
missing and
how the historical and contemporary exploration process can be
documented and
displayed to ensure other voices are included.
Arts and science: an enlightened approach
Thursday 29 January 2015
Join artist Emma Smith and Dr Tim O’Riley, Tutor at the Royal College of
Art to
investigate the role the arts play in the interpretation of science and
exploration
today, why the perception and practice of art and science has separated
into two
distinct disciplines and how this is being addressed/ changing today.
Programme for the seminars
18.00 Wine and nibbles
18.15 Speakers’ presentations and discussion
20.00 Your chance to view the Art and Science of Exploration exhibition
Book online at rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/travellers-tails-exploration
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