📢 Lancement de WOMNH – Women in Natural History Museums and Collections ! Un réseau de recherche pour explorer le rôle essentiel des femmes dans l’histoire des savoirs naturalistes A suivre ici 🔗 shorturl.at/Ev4qT #womnh #museums #naturalhistory @recherche.mnhn.fr @ehess.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social

To read more about our work please visit: womnh.hypotheses.org womnh.hypotheses.org/events Please note that the website is very much work in progress (more info will be added) #histsci #collections #museums #botany #skystorians

Join us on Monday (18.00-19.00) for Marie Mianowski's seminar: Tracing Sarah Mary Fitton (1795–1874). Marie will be discussing her research on Fitton, an Irish born botanist, discussing both individual hurdles she faced & systemic difficulties that were typical for women scientists in the 19th c

Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by Maria Florutau, Prize questions as instructions: useful colonial knowledge in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (1770-1800). The seminar can be accessed via Zoom, for link please email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. Time: 15.00-16.00 C.E.T

New term and new terrific line up of speakers for the Instructing Colonial Natural History seminars. Topics are women teaching women; black scientists subverting racialised science, and prize questions in the Batavian society. For Zoom link see poster. #history #colonialism #museums #naturalhistory