Event: Natural History And The Appropriation Of The New World: Drawing, Assembling And Naming Species – A Lecture By Mauricio Nieto
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| Title | Natural History And The Appropriation Of The New World: Drawing, Assembling And Naming Species – A Lecture By Mauricio Nieto |
| Type of event | Lecture |
| Dates | 28 May 2009 |
| Time | 19:00 |
| Description | Natural History and the Appropriation of the New World: Drawing, Assembling and Naming Species – a lecture by Mauricio Nieto Thursday 28 May, 7 – 9pm Venue: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Science historian Mauricio Nieto will talk about his research on the 18th Century Botanical Expeditions to the New World and the ways in which the illustrations that depicted their findings were constructed to legitimise the colonial appropriation of nature in scientific terms. Despite the apparent objectivity of the work of the artists-scientists accompanying the Botanical Expeditions to the New World, they had been provided with a whole series of instructions that responded to a political project, that of the Empire. On a flat piece of paper, these illustrators were able to synthesise time and space in an ideal picture that responded to a “universal” Linnaean classification. Mauricio Nieto is a professor at Los Andes University in Bogotá. He obtained his PhD from the Imperial College, University of London in 1994 with the thesis Remedies for the Empire (published in Spanish in 2000), and is the author of Orden natural y orden social (2008). Venue: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Free but booking essential at: bookings@gasworks.org.uk This event is part of the exhibition Everything has a name, or the potential to be named and is organised in association with the British Academy and the Embassy of Colombia in the UK. |
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| Name | Gasworks |
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155 Vauxhall Street Lambeth SE11 5RH |
| Telephone | 020 7587 5202 |
| Website | www.gasworks.org.uk |
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