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Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThis event is part of “Conserving Active Matter: A Cultures of Conservation Research Project,” a collaboration betwe...

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation This event is part of “Conserving Active Matter: A Cultures of Conservation Research Project,” a collaboration between Bard Graduate Center, the Humboldt University (Berlin), and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This initiative aims to bring new developments in materials science and new ways of thinking about matter to create new ways of thinking about the future of conservation. The project is articulated through semester-themed explorations along four axes: Indigenous ontologies (spring 2018),…

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