13/11/2025
Our final Feminist Technoscience in Practice event of the year: gardenblues[dot]net. Subverting Cook Book Taxonomies and other Friendship Activities 🌶️🌽🐛🪻
On November 27th, researcher and writer Semine Long-Callesen will give an open lecture followed by a hands-on workshop where we will shape our own videos around themes of food and memory.
🌱IMPORTANT
The lecture at 15.00 in AUD3 is open to all! To participate in the workshop (from 16.00 in room 2A50), you need to reserve a ticket (link in our bio).
15:00 - 16:00 - Lecture in Auditorium 3. The lecture will offer a brief history of the natural history museum - an institution established for territorial reconnaissance by European empires, serving colonial rule and resource extraction. The lecture will explore two out of the two thousand museums of the British Empire: the Perak Museum in Malaya and the Raffles Museum in Singapore. In its early stages, the museum institution was a scientific laboratory that organized mineral expeditions and botanical experiments that eventually led to widespread tin mining and cultivation of cash crops such as rubber. As the imperial search for revenue deforested and exhausted colonial territories, the museum became a shrine for specimens gone extinct. It represented a fantasy of a paradisical exterior that in reality only flourished inside the museum walls - a ruin of a tropical colonial mirage. The natural history museum transformed from a science laboratory to a monument to the encyclopaedic urge to taxonomize all things under colonial rule - nature, peoples, culture.
16.00 - 18.00: Workshop in Room 2A50
The second part of the lecture presents the online recipe universe gardenblues[dot]net created by Semine Long-Callesen, Nany Valladarea, and Agnes Cameron. Through cooking for each other, the three friends found that Honduran and Malaysian cuisine surprisingly shared overlapping flavours. Together, they modelled a recipe universe based on an affective landscape. Participants will be introduced to the recipe universe and encouraged to make a small video based on food and memory 🌱🌱
Hope to see you there!
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