Animal Materialities

»Animal Materialities: Compositions and Practices in the History of Science« on December 5-6, 2019 was a workshop organised by Lisa Onaga & Laurence Douny (Weaving) at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The workshop examined the range of components of animal bodies used and transformed over time by animals, and humans. By inviting scholars working on histories of design, materials science, chemistry, and biological sciences to inquire into the histories of animal materialities, scrutiny was directed at the different knowledges and methods of studying, visualizing, and rendering animal tissues, cells, microbes, and molecules, including but not limited to lipids, fibrous and structural proteins such as collagen and keratin, teeth, and excretions.

If you would like to attend, please register by emailing event_dept3 [​at​] mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de before November 30, 2019.

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