6:45pm-8:30pm on Wednesday 19 March
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Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ
Today, natural history museums are starting to research the full histories of how their collections were built, and this can bring to light some surprising and troubling stories. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, are icons of extinction, and some of the world’s best-preserved specimens are in Cambridge’s University Museum of Zoology. New research there has uncovered an uncomfortable truth about how the history of the extinction of the thylacine had strong parallels with the violent events that took place in Tasmania in the nineteenth century.
Join zoologist and author Jack Ashby (University of Cambridge) and journalist and academic Lainy Malkani (University of the Arts London) in the inspiring setting of the Museum of Zoology for a conversation about Tasmanian tigers, museum collecting, and how to tell these difficult stories. The evening is also the launch of a new podcast miniseries exploring these topics, incorporating thought-provoking soundscapes and interviews.
The series is part of a unique art/science collaboration between the Sonic Screen Lab, UAL (Lainy Malkani, Professor Shreepali Patel & Julia Schauerman) and the Museum of Zoology (Jack Ashby).
After the talk, participants will have the chance to explore the galleries while they listen.
