Curating the Anthropocene: Debate and Discussion

AHA Session 114
Society for the History of Technology 2
History of Science Society 1
Friday, January 3, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Columbia Hall 3 (Washington Hilton)
Chair:
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College
Topics:
Telling the Story of the Anthropocene, or Not, in Major American History Museums
Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum
"Nature and Technology in the Anthropocene": Curating a Special Exhibition for the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany
Nina Möllers, Deutches Museum
Collections and Communities: Voices from the Climate-Changed Pacific
Jennifer Newell, American Museum of Natural History
Nature without Humans: The Biological Museum of Stockholm
Linda Haverty Rugg, University of California, Berkeley
Comment:
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College

Session Abstract

A roundtable/ discussion session aimed at grounding the diverse thinking, soaring rhetoric, and potential disagreements about the Anthropocene in actual museum practice.

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