Season 6: Animals and
Museum Objects/Collections
Rosa Dyer joins the show as a co-host of Season 6 of the Animal Highlight to discuss animals and museum objects/collections. The Animal Highlight is a sister podcast of The Animal Turn that is hosted and produced by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder. In Season 6 you will learn about a wide range of animals, including parasitoid wasps, pygmy hippos, and extinct birds such as the dodo and the huia. Rosa helps us to tap into some of animal stories about animals found in natural history museums, prompting questions about how we can know historical animals and some of their indigenous, colonial, and often times violent pasts.
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Episodes
Rosa Dyer is a Collaborative Doctoral Project PhD candidate at Birkbeck College University of London and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her practice-based project at the Pitt Rivers Museum focuses on featherwork collections made by South American Indigenous peoples. Her work aims to reveal the dynamic relations that exist between birds, people and environments by working with Indigenous collaborators to reimagine how the feathered objects are represented in the museum. You can connect with Rosa via Twitter (@rosajdyer).
