Dear all,
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the seminar planned for this Thursday has been cancelled.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
We are hoping to rearrange for the seminar to take place later in the year.
Warm regards
Julie
CANCELLED
Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage. Speaker: Dr Rodney Harrison, Reader in Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies, UCL Institute of Archaeology
Thursday 28 January at 14.30, Flett Events Theatre
Free. Tea and coffee afterwards.
This seminar introduces a new collaborative research programme that considers practices across various conventional and unconventional fields of conservation work, and the collections which such practices generate. From a nuclear waste disposal facility in Sweden to an digital repository of global endangered languages, from a frozen genetic ‘Ark’ in Nottingham to the global seed vault in Arctic Norway, and from a ‘rewilded’ landscape in Portugal to paper-based archives in Paris, Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage aims to develop a cross-sectoral, comparative framework for understanding heritage in its most expansive sense. Importantly, it also aims to explore the potential for innovation and the creation of more sustainable heritage futures in redeploying practices from one field in another.
If you would like to attend the seminar please email Zoë Hughes, Curator of Fossil Invertebrates (Brachiopods and Cephalopods), and the coordinator of the series for 2016 at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Directions for entrance on the day
Please enter the Museum entrance on Exhibition Road<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/getting-here/index.html>. If you go to the reception desk they will direct you to the Flett EventsTheatre which is on Floor 1 of the Red Zone.<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/floorplans/red-zone/index.html> This is in a public area of the Museum and visitors can make their own way there.
Warmest regards
Julie Reynolds
Julie Reynolds
UK Programme: Collections
Project Co-ordinator
Department of Life Sciences
The Natural History Museum
London SW7 5BD UK
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 942 5739
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