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Final Reminder
This is the last week to register for the "Wallich and Indian Natural History" conference.
Conference Deadline: 20th November.
Registration website: http://wallich.eventbrite.com <http://wallich.eventbrite.com/>
Update: Our schedule of special collection viewings at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the 7th December, has been finalised. Details below.
All welcome. Apologies for cross-posting. Please do forward this message on to your colleagues.
Wallich and Indian Natural History:
Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge
Tuesday, December 6 - Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
This conference celebrates the World Collections Programme funded Wallich Project, a collaboration between the Natural History Museum, London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Library.
Organised by the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (CAHR) at the Natural History Museum.
Registration Deadline: 20th November.
REGISTER FOR EVENT <http://wallich.eventbrite.com/>
The full conference fee includes:
* Teas and coffees on both days, and a buffet lunch at the Natural History Museum on day one
* Workshops to include private viewings of the Wallich collections at Kew Gardens on day two
* A complimentary ticket for entry to Kew Gardens, and a wine reception, on day two
For further information, including speaker abstracts and biographies, please visit our registration site: http://wallich.eventbrite.com <http://wallich.eventbrite.com/>
Programme of Events
Tuesday, 6th December at the Natural History Museum
10:00-10:20 Coffee and Registration in the Flett Theatre Foyer, Natural History Museum Main Building (Earth Galleries)
10:20-10:30 Welcome note (TBC, NHM) in the Flett Theatre
10:30-10:40 Opening Remarks (Julie Harvey, CAHR Centre Manager, NHM)
10:40-12:10 Panel 1. Nathaniel Wallich: His Expeditions and Collections (Chair: Dr B. Venugopal, Director, National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi)
David Arnold (Department of History, University of Warwick)
Nathaniel Wallich and the Natural History of India
Bodhisattva Kar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Frontier, Collected: Nathaniel Wallich in the North-Eastern Frontier of British India
Sangeeta Rajbhandary (Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University), Krishna K. Shrestha (Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University), Mark F. Watson (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)
Wallich and the First Explorations of the Nepalese Flora
12:10-13:10 Buffet lunch in the Flett Theatre Foyer
13:10-14:40 Panel 2. Dispersal and Movement within the British Empire (Chair: Professor Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Sandip Hazareesingh (Department of History, The Open University)
Plants, Power and Productivity: The East India Company and Cotton Imperialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Western India
Caroline Cornish (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Circulating India: Kew, Colonial Forestry and Circuits of Display
Kapil Raj (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Natural History Illustrations from south Asia in the Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Library: Uses and Potentials
14:40-14:55 Tea and coffee in the Flett Theatre Foyer
14:55-16:25 Panel 3. The Wallich Project (Chair: Dr Vinita Damodaran, Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Sussex)
Henry Noltie (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)
Scottish Surgeons and Indian Botany: Dispersed Collections of Drawings and Specimens, a Case Study from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Antonia Moon (British Library) and Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum)
Wallich's Papers at the British Library and Beyond
Timothy Utteridge (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Clare Drinkell (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) and Ranee Prakash (Natural History Museum)
The Wallich Plant Illustrations in London: Identification and Dissemination
16:25-16:45 Closing Remarks (Julie Harvey, CAHR Centre Manager, NHM)
16:45-17:30 Tea in the Flett Theatre Foyer
Wednesday, 7th December at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
9:30-14:15 Delegates are offered free access to the Gardens from 9:30, when the Gardens open. To obtain free access you will need to show your conference badge to the staff at the entrance. Please use either the Victoria Gate or Main Gate entrances.
Please visit http://www.kew.org/ <http://www.kew.org/> to help plan your time. We would recommend a visit to both the Marianne North Gallery, which was reopened earlier this year following a full restoration back to its original design, and also to the adjacent Shirley Sherwood Gallery which has an exhibition - Joseph Hooker - naturalist, traveller and more -marking the centenary of Hooker's death.
14:15-14:30 Please assemble in the Reception of the Herbarium & Library Building, [Entrance on Kew Green]
14:30-17:00 Delegates will be formed into groups and each group will be taken through parts of both the original Herbarium Building and the latest extension which opened last year.
Kew's Wallich related collections will be set out at four points around the building, where staff responsible for the collection will talk on the items on display and provide an opportunity for discussion.
Groups will have up to 30 minutes at each of the following four points:
Paintings & drawings/books
Manuscripts & Archives
Herbarium Specimens
Items from the Economic Botany Collection and Wood Samples
17:00-18:30 Conference Reception in Main Library Reading Room
REGISTER FOR EVENT <http://wallich.eventbrite.com/>
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