Dear ESG members,

The CETAF Collection Group have another talk, that you may find of
interest:

Best

Laura

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Subject: CETAF Collection Group session 28 February: Civically Engaged
Natural History Museums
Date: 2024-02-21 07:35
 From: Luc Willemse <luc.willemse@naturalis.nl>
To: Laurence Bénichou <laurence.benichou@mnhn.fr>, Isabelle Gerard
<Isabelle.gerard@africamuseum.be>, Dirk Neumann
<d.neumann@leibniz-lib.de>, "heimo.rainer@NHM-WIEN.AC.AT"
<heimo.rainer@nhm-wien.ac.at>, Güntsch, Anton <A.Guentsch@bo.berlin>,
Alessandro Marchi <amarchi@naturalsciences.be>, Gila Kahila
<gila.kahila@mail.huji.ac.il>, Thierry Bourgoin
<thierry.bourgoin@mnhn.fr>, marko.lovric@cetaf.org, Ana Casino
<acasino@naturalsciences.be>, Iasmi Stathi <iasmistathi@gmail.com>,
David Ott <D.Ott@leibniz-lib.de>, "laura.tilley"
<laura.tilley@cetaf.org>, Luc Willemse <luc.willemse@naturalis.nl>

Dear CETAF working Group leaders,

For your information:

Next week Wednesday, 28 FEBRUARY (11:00-12:00 CEST), the CETAF
Collections Group organizes its second monthly session in 2024. This
time the topic is:  "CIVICALLY ENGAGED NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS: PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT FOR A BETTER WORLD"  presented by Dr. Liz Hide, Director of
the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Below is
a short summary of her presentation:

> _Working in and with natural history collections, we recognise the
> value of our collections in contributing to impactful research around
> climate change and biodiversity loss, and we are increasingly using
> our collections to engage visitors with these themes.    But climate
> change is linked to a much wider set of societal challenges, including
> social inequality, social isolation, discrimination and ill health.
> In this talk I’ll be discussing who engages with our museums and
> collections and who doesn’t,  and I’ll use examples from the
> University of Cambridge Museums to explore how, even on a modest scale
> our natural history collections can enable us to better respond to the
> issues and concerns that communities and society are experiencing. _

Following the presentation, there will of course be time for questions.
As always, your colleagues are welcome to join the session; please
forward this mail to anyone who might be interested. This is the ZOOM
LINK TO ACCESS THE SESSION [1].

As always, colleagues are welcome to join the session; PLEASE FORWARD
THIS MAIL WITHIN YOUR CETAF WORKING GROUP and to anyone who might be
interested. This is the ZOOM LINK TO ACCESS THE SESSION [1].  Apologies
for any cross posting.

Hoping  many of you join the session!
With kind regards on behalf of the CETAF Collections Group
Luc Willemse
Senior Collection Manager Orthopteroids
Chair CETAF Collections Group
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