ICOM INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY

Conference-Website:

https://2017.icom-nathist.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS:

https://2017.icom-nathist.org/call-for-papers/

Several exciting programs and museum events will run in tandem with the 2017 conference. Attendees will receive tickets to the museum’s famous Halloween party and be among the first to see Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition—We Are Nature. The exhibition will feature pieces of the museum’s hidden collection in its exploration of the Anthropocene.

The Anthropocene is the concept that human activity has had a profound and pervasive impact on the planet, such that its effects will be present in the fossil record millions of years from now. This warrants a dedicated geological era, the Anthropocene. The concept of humanity’s impact on and interaction with the global environment touches on science, conservation, artistic expression, philosophy, and even recreation. Natural history museums are at the nexus of these considerations, researching arcane ecological and evolutionary concepts, interpreting them for the public.

Keynotes:

Dr. Helmuth Trischler,director of the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and Richard Pell, curator of PostNatural Organisms at the Center for PostNatural History

Excursion:

Visit Powdermill Nature Reserve, the museum’s environmental research center, and Fallingwater, the iconic house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

More information at : http://nathist.icom.museum/