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SUMMARY:Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa 
 Cymru's Economic Botany collection - Fiona Roberts (Cardiff University and
  Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales)
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DESCRIPTION:Exploring the life story of a ginger specimen within Amgueddfa
  Cymru's Economic Botany collection\, this talk will trace an individual p
 lant's journey through varied natural history display spaces.\n\nOriginall
 y from India\, the ginger specimen travelled to Wales in 1939 from London'
 s Imperial Institute\, becoming part of an exhibition\, 'Plants in the Ser
 vice of Man'. This exhibition aimed to 'relay the importance of botany to 
 the everyday lives of the Welsh public' (Hyde 1939)\, and represented ging
 er and the world using particular practices and narratives. This talk expl
 ores the relationship between botanical forms used to display ginger – w
 hether wax models\, herbarium sheets\, dioramas or living plants – and t
 he situated narratives emerging from this – representations of species\,
  biogeography and cultures.\n\nFinally\, this talk explores how taking a n
 aturecultural (Haraway 2003) approach to display reveals how plants like g
 inger can both resist and become collaborators in curation. Looking forwar
 ds\, it considers how this relates to decolonising museum practice\, provi
 ding clues to move past enduring imperial logics in evolving naturecultura
 l worlds.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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