Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 20/05/2025
16:15 - 18:15
Veranstaltungsort
HU Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 3075 [1]
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Kategorien
- Vortrag [3]
Public Lecture by Lawrence Weschler
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Of Pinned Ants, Antlered Humans and Other Wonders of Jurassic Technology
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A public livestream will be available without prior registration: https://inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/writing-heritage-stories-with-lawrence-weschler [5]
A lavishly illustrated, wildly digressive presentation that starts out, anyway, as an evocation of the Museum of Jurassic Technology [6] in West Los Angeles (David Wilson’s legendary emporium devoted to the celebration of things that can’t be known for sure) and then ranges far afield, among other things into an exploration of the origins of all modern museums in the explosion of wonder and curiosity that characterized sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. Based on Lawrence Weschler’s [7] Pulitzer-finalist book of magic-realist nonfiction, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder [8].
A lecture that is to lectures what the book was to books, and what the Museum of Jurassic Technology is to other museums, pitched in each case some indeterminate place between parody and reverence, with a good deal of slippage back and forth.