Author: John Holmes

Click on this post to read an article by Silvia Forni, Senior Curator of Global Africa at the ROM, on how contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime invites us to reflect on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment through his work.

The University of Birmingham has a new report out today on Addressing the Climate Challenge. Click on this post to find a link to the report. In a chapter drawing on the work of the Symbiosis network and a collaboration with the Guild of St George at Ruskin Land, John Holmes and Dion Dobrzynski set … Continue reading “How the arts and humanities can help tackle the climate crisis”

The University of Birmingham will be hosting the conference of the British Animal Studies Network online on the theme of Loss from 7-9 September 2021. Here is the call for papers.

The full recordings of all five sessions of the Symbiosis conference are now available to watch online. To see the full playlist and pick an episode, click on the numbered icon at the top right-hand corner of the video below.

Here is the video of the first session of the Symbiosis conference, on natural history museum architecture and design, hosted online by Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 9 November 2020. Further panels to be posted later this week…

Elaine Charwat, who spoke on the history of models of prehistoric life at the Symbiosis conference, has recently recorded a podcast introducing some of the fabulous objects she has been working with at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. To hear more click on the link in this post: Of parasites, dinosaurs, and other … Continue reading “Modelling animals in NHMs”

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is co-organizing a series of free live online talks on the theme of ‘Animals as Objects?’ on Monday afternoons from November until February. For the full programme and to register, click on this link: https://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/ringvorlesung-berliner-kulturwissenschaft

Thank you to everyone who spoke at and attended the Symbiosis conference last week. Especial thanks to Jack Matthews, whose technical mastery of Webinar Jam enabled the whole event to run so smoothly.  We will be posting recordings of the sessions on the website next week, so do keep a look out for updates.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us for the Symbiosis conference so far this week. The last session, on The Anthropocene and the Arts in Natural History Museums, is tomorrow, Friday 13th November, at 2 pm UK time. Do join us if you can. To see the panel of speakers and for free registration, … Continue reading “Symbiosis conference – last day”