Making Nature Panel 6: Collecting Pasts and Futures - Wrap-Up Conversation

“Relics and Natural History: Making the New World Old”
Matthew Dennis, Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
“Preservation and Destruction in Early Modern Collections”
Whitney Barlow Robles, Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Dartmouth College
“Zoological Nationalism: The Role of the Beijing Zoo in PRC’s Territorial Narratives, State Power, and Nationalism after 1949”
Shung Yue Liu, MA Student in Global, International, and Comparative History, Georgetown University
“Transforming Collections, Preserving Futures: 2030 at the Museum für Naturkunde”
Elaina Foley, Bundeskanzler-Stipendium Visiting Researcher, Museum für Naturkunde
Moderator: Lynn Dorwaldt, Special Collections Librarian, Wagner Free Institute of Science