Before Resources: Managing Mineral "Treasures" in Early Modern Central Europe

26.06.2024 13:00

Presentation by Sebastian Felten

Colloquium Humanities of Nature (online)

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Colloquium Humanities of Nature

hosted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Meeting ID: 963 6658 8279

PW: 700076

Wednesdays, 1-2 pm (CET)

Collecting Minerals, Extracting the Earth. Political Dimensions of Geoscience.

 

  • June, 19th - Maddalena Napolitani / Clotilde Savatier, Museo Galileo: "From the Extraction to the Exhibition «Collectible Minerals»" (Ecole des Mines’ mineralogy museum, Paris), 
  • June, 26th - Sebastian Felten, University of Vienna: "Before Resources: Managing Mineral "Treasures" in Early Modern Central Europe" 
  • July, 3rd - David Gelsthorpe, Manchester Museum: "Decolonising Manchester’s Minerals and the Ripples of Sector Change" 
  • July, 10th - Carrie Robbins / Selby Hearth, Bryn Mawr College:" Minerals, Knowledge Production, and Colonial Legacies"

Contacts: Ina Heumann (Ina.Heumann@mfn.berlin) & Angela Strauß (Angela.Strauss@mfn.berlin)