Research, Translation, Pedagogy
A hybrid conference
August 7-10, 2024 – University of King’s College
An international conference and workshop reconceptualizing the global origin and worldwide circulation of knowledge of the natural world.
Plenary Speakers
Elder Albert Marshall (Mi’kma’ki)
Jim Secord (Cambridge)
Elise Burton (IHPST/Toronto)
Fa-Ti Fan (Binghamton)
Sarah Qidwai (Regensburg/York)
Arun Bala (Singapore)
Lesley Cormack (UBC)
Hyunhee Park (CUNY)
Geoff Bil (Delaware)
David Pantalony (Ingenium)
Visit Cosmolocal.org to register and for more information.
The conference wishes to thank the following sponsors for their generous support:
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, the University of King’s College, the British Society for the History of Science, Mount Allison University, Cape Breton University, History of Science Society, the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science / Division of History of Science and Technology, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilisation, Dalhousie University Office of Sustainability
Conference events open to the public
The Things They Carried
Museums are packed with scientific objects, each with a rich biography of know-how, people and places. Join David Pantalony, Joshua Nall, Paige Crosby and some of their international colleagues as they launch a new online exhibit exploring how scientific objects take on new identities as they move in and out of various social and cultural contexts.
Etuaptmumk – Two-Eyed Seeing
Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall will speak on his concept of Etuaptmumk – Two-Eyed Seeing: the benefits of multiple perspectives and learning to see with one eye from the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges a – learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.
Banner illustration of nudibranch by Kumataro Ito, from the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908), Smithsonian Field Books Collection
