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SUMMARY:Science\, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Pot
 entials through Colonial Museum African Collections - Dr Nathan Bossoh
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CONTACT:Rupert Shortt
DESCRIPTION:Over the last few decades the history of science discipline ha
 s shifted – with noticeable progress – from Western-focused narratives
  towards more globalised histories of science. In comparison however\, the
  subdiscipline ‘history of science and religion’ has\, only in the las
 t decade\, begun to make this shift beyond Christian-focused Eurocentric b
 oundaries.\n\nIn their 2011 book Science and Religion Around the World Joh
 n Brooke and Ronald Numbers attempted to map out a viable approach to glob
 alising histories of science and religion\, yet the work highlighted more 
 issues than it solved. One reason these issues have prevailed\, I suggest\
 , remains due to approaches and methodologies. Whilst historians have paid
  much attention to the various intellectual\, social and cultural contexts
  of science and religion in history\, they have paid less attention to the
  material cultural contexts.\n\nIn this talk therefore\, utilising the res
 ults from my ongoing research into the ‘Wellcome African materials’ he
 ld by the London Science Museum\, I explore a currently underutilised\, ye
 t fruitful\, mode of investigation. By incorporating indigenous narratives
  embedded in colonial museum collections into histories of science and rel
 igion\, I argue that material histories can enrich current scholarship.\n\
 nFurthermore\, in bringing the history of science and religion more firmly
  into contact with museum studies\, my research sits alongside emerging tr
 ends within the field which increasingly seek to position history of scien
 ce and religion as a more public facing discipline which can speak directl
 y to key contemporary social\, political\, national\, and international di
 scussions and debates.
LOCATION:Healey Room\, Westminster College
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