{"id":10930,"date":"2014-12-08T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:15","slug":"karen-rader-natural-history-museums-december-12-1-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/karen-rader-natural-history-museums-december-12-1-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Rader speaking on Natural History Museums, at Carleton on December 12 at 1 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Karen Rader speaking on Natural History Museums, at Carleton on December 12 at 1 PM\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"animals-on-display-transforming-exhibition-traditions-in-natural-history-and-science-museums\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8220;Animals on Display: Transforming Exhibition Traditions in Natural History and Science Museums&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>December 12 1:00-2:30 PM 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Berger, critic and writer, famously said that \u201cin the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared.\u201d Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that we have been removed from the daily lives of animals. At the same time, a plethora of new museum representational practices have arisen that, broadly conceived, work to fill in the gap between humans and animals. Ironically, many of these may ultimately intensify the very nostalgia, distance, and ignorance they were devised to remedy. This talk will look at a range of examples of animals on display, situated in various historical and sociocultural contexts, in order to speak to the ongoing and important role of museums in making animals visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Rader is Associate Professor of History and Director of the STS [Science, Technology, and Society] Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. She recently co-edited a collection of essays entitled Animals on Display: Reflections on the Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History (Penn State UP, 2013) with a group of scholars from the University of Oslo. She is also the author of Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research 1900-1955 (Princeton UP, 2004) and Life on Display: Revolutionizing US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century (U. Chicago UP, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Shannon Lectures in History<\/strong> is a series of thematically linked public lectures offered annually at Carleton University made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major anonymous gift from a friend of the Department of History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Animals on Display: Transforming Exhibition Traditions in Natural History and Science Museums&#8221; December 12 1:00-2:30 PM 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University. John Berger, critic and writer, famously said that \u201cin the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared.\u201d Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[27,39],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-lecture","tag-shannon"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}