29-30 March 2012
Horniman Museum and Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, London |
‘Use It or Lose It”
Natural Sciences Collections Association
Conference & AGM
Programme available here
Further details can be found on the NatSCA website: http://natsca.info/seminars_workshops
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20th April 2012
The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester |
More than just fossils?
Social History Curator's Group course
The Social History Curators Group is running a course on caring for geology collections for non-specialists:
More than just fossils? A Geology Masterclass for Social History Curators.
This Masterclass will equip you with the confidence, skills and knowledge you need to maximise the potential of your geology collections. The session will run from 10:00-4:00 at a cost of £29 for members of the Social History Curator's Group or £34 for non members.
See http://www.shcg.org.uk/ for booking and more details
or contact JenBrown@aberdeencity.gov.uk |
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27th April 2012
Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG |
History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the 'New Science'
Cultures of Knowledge, University of Oxford, and the Mellon Foundation; The Fell Fund; The British Society for the History of Science; the Royal Society; and the Wellcome Trust.
This conference considers the interrelationships between medicine and the endeavour of natural history in the seventeenth-century. It will be held to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Martin Lister (1639-1712), Royal Physician and the first arachnologist and conchologist. The meeting will not only address Lister's work but will consider to what extent practices and technologies of natural history changed between the Renaissance and the seventeenth century. We will also explore how acquisition of natural history knowledge and new schemes of taxonomy affected perception and treatment of animals for medical and experimental use.
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and finish by 5:30 p.m.
The conference fee is £40 (full fee), or £30 (student/retired/unemployed). The conference fee includes lunch and refreshments. An optional conference dinner will be organised at an extra cost of £35. There are a limited number of student bursaries available to assist with conference fees and other expenses. Registration for this event is now open online at: http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/history-comes-to-life/
Please email Felicity Henderson (felicity.henderson@royalsociety.org) with any queries about this event.
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11-16th June 2012
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut |
Emerging Technology and Innovation in Natural History Collections Management
27th annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
On behalf of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History we would like to invite you to the 27th annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, June 11-16, 2012 in New Haven, Connecticut. We are pleased to have the Consortia of Northeast Herbaria and members of the Yale community join us next summer and we hope you will be with us too.
The theme of SPNHC 2012 is Emerging Technology and Innovation in Natural History Collections Management and will focus on the tools, innovative methods and collaborations that will move the natural history collections community forward. Our venue will be the Omni Hotel located in downtown New Haven within steps of the city green and Yale’s historic old campus. General sessions will be held at this luxury hotel, while social events will give a glimpse of the Peabody Museum and its collections as well as other Yale collections and the campus. We are planning an exciting program including field trips, workshops, technical sessions, demonstrations and a vendor exhibition or tradeshow.
We are looking for diverse communities of natural history practioners. In order to have a successful meeting, we need your participation and ideas for the program including suggestions for technical sessions, panel discussions, workshops and field trips. If you have any ideas for the program within the theme of Emerging Technology and Innovation in Natural History Collections Management, we ask that you please submit them to our program committee chair, Patrick Sweeny via email at SPNHC2012@yale.edu
Look for meeting updates and important dates, travel grant information and registration details on the SPNHC 2012 website at http://www.peabody.yale.edu/SPNHC2012 and join us on our Facebook group, search: SPNHC 2012.
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22-23 October 2012
The Geological Society (Burlington House) and Le Meridien, Piccadilly |
Appreciating Physical Landscapes: Geotourism 1670 - 1970
History of Geology Group
Geotourism’s burgeoning literature has tended to focus on descriptions and case studies of modern interpretative and promotional provision in protected areas and geoparks. The significant historical antecedents of modern geotourism in Britain and Europe are comparatively neglected in the literature. Whilst these antecedents can be traced back to the elite 17th century travellers who ventured into wild landscapes and visited caves and mines, early modern geotourism, with many of the features of its present-day provision, can be recognised if not so named from the opening of the 19th century. This latter period more than coincided with the emergence of modern scientific geology and the beginnings of excursion tourism; the organised publication of regional geology guide-books and geology field excursions followed from the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
The conference’s timeframe opens with the early reportage of elite travellers and the publication of the first travellers’ guide-books and closes at the cusp of modern landscape and geoconservation measures, such as national parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty, national nature reserves, and the emergence of environmental interpretation and modern countryside leisure as forerunners to modern geopark provision.
Call for Papers
Title, abstract (up to 500 words) and an associated image to be submitted to Tom Hose by 11 March 2012.
Conference Convenor: Tom Hose, University of Bristol: t.hose123@btinternet.com
More information online
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