The second season of The Unnatural History Museum: Mediating Nature in the Sixth Mass Extinction started October 2023.
The Unnatural History Museum brought together museum professionals, creatives and academics across disciplines to platform vital conversations about the museum mediation of the natural world during the sixth mass extinction.
The series unfolded over a series of themed Zoom sessions featuring short presentations, followed by a roundtable discussion.
Session 1: Art
Wednesday 18th October 2023 [on Zoom]
The event featured papers from and discussion with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Artist, The Substitute), Donal Maguire (Keeper of Art and Industry, National Museum of Ireland), and Bergit Arends (Courtauld Institute).
Session 2: Oceans
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 [on Zoom]
The event featured papers from and discussion with Susanna Lidström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Anna Åberg (Chalmers University of Technology), Killian Quigley (Australian Catholic University), Dominik Huenniger (German Port Museum Hamburg), Marie-Theres Fojuth (Universitet I Stavanger).
Session 3: Deep Time
Wednesday 24th April 2024 [on Zoom]
The event featured papers from and discussion with Diana Marsh (University of Maryland), Richard Fallon (Natural History Museum, London), and Shana van Hauwermeiren (Workshop Intangible Heritage)
Session 4: Cryptids
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 [on Zoom]
The event featured papers from and discussion with Jordan Kistler (University of Strathclyde), Paolo Viscardi (National Museum of Ireland – Natural History) and Darren Naish (Tetrapod Zoology).
Series organiser: Dr Verity Burke (John Pollard Newman Fellow of Climate Change and the Arts, UCD School of English, Drama & Film and HI Resident Scholar)