Symbiosis research project

After working with Symbiosis partners and colleagues on several events and exhibitions connected to climate change, along with an open letter to COP30 calling for storytelling and the arts to be given a bigger role in tackling climate change, I am delighted to announce that the University of Birmingham has been awarded a grant by … Continue reading “New research project on storytelling and climate change”

The next Symbiosis meeting will be a symposium on Imagining Prehistories at the University of Birmingham, UK, on 2-4 November 2026, organised by Dr Billie Gavurin and Prof Paul Smith. The symposium will feature discussions of human prehistory, dinosaurs and the interpretation of Earth history and heritage in museums and geoparks, along with a choice … Continue reading “Symbiosis 2026 – University of Birmingham”

We are delighted to announce that Brandon Kilbourne’s poetry collection Natural History, which was published last year, has been shortlisted for the Laurel Prize. Brandon read some outstanding poems from this collection at the Symbiosis conference in Oxford in 2023. To read a selection of the poems and to order your own copy, visit Brandon’s website … Continue reading “Symbiosis colleague’s poetry collection shortlisted for prize”

Long-standing Symbiosis member Will Tattersdill’s brilliant new book The Social Dinosaur: The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination has just come out with Bloomsbury. Click on this link to read more about it and order your copy: The Social Dinosaur: The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination: Explorations in Science and … Continue reading “Another new book”

Jordan Kistler’s exciting new book The British Public and the British Museum: Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century has just been published by Edinburgh University Press. For more details, click on the link below: The British Public and the British Museum

Symbiosis co-founder Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel held a Value of the Past Fellowship at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, in 2025. Click on the link below to read her reflections on how the architecture of the Sedgwick Museum was designed to communicate the science and significance of geology: Building Deep Time – Museum Architecture in … Continue reading “Museum Architecture in Oxford, Vienna & Cambridge”

Thanks again from the Symbiosis network as a whole to Robert Lindner and Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel for hosting such an excellent conference across five days, three cities and at least four museums. And thanks too for sharing these photographs of the conference itself:

Here is the programme for the 2025 Symbiosis conference, which has now been finalised: Many thanks to Robert Lindner and Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel for taking on the organisation of the conference and pulling together such an exciting and stimulating programme. If you have not yet registered to attend the conference and would like to join us, … Continue reading “Symbiosis 2025 – full programme and final chance to register”

Here is the provisional programme for the 2025 Symbiosis conference, to be held in Austria on 3-7 November 2025 at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Haus der Natur in Salzburg and Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, along with registration and other details.