5:30pm-7:00pm on Thursday 23 March5:30pm-7:00pm on Thursday 30 March
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Sainsbury Laboratory , Audotorium, 47 Bateman Street , CB2 1LR
The Cambridge University Herbarium is one of the most diverse and historic natural sciences collections held by the University of Cambridge.
Join panels of experts from the arts and sciences for a series of talks, presentations and discussions with audience participation that aim to bring the diverse histories embodied in this specimen collection back to life.
The audience will be introduced to a rich material culture dating from the mid-18th century to the present, following specimens collected by enslaved peoples in the West Indies, women who travelled across war-torn Napoleonic Europe, the water plants of Cambridgeshire, specimens collected by intrepid travellers in the Himalaya, Charles Darwin’s specimens from HMS Beagle, and those collected from Singapore and Malaya in the middle of the Second World War.
Confirmed contributors include:
Dr Caroline Cornish (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Dr Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge)
Dr Mark Carine (Natural History Museum, London)
Dr Chris Preston (University of Cambridge)
Dr Anne Secord (University of Cambridge)
Dr Nathan Smith (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Shelley Innes (University of Cambridge)
Dr Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge)
Dr Lauren Gardiner (University of Cambridge)
Professor Kasia Boddy (University of Cambridge)
Hosted and organised by Dr Edwin Rose and Dr Lauren Gardiner,
these panels will be held in two sessions.
