1/14 Today in #OceanhistAPM: #coral as I look forward to discussing @em_hutcheson's chapter for the #oceanhist reading group @chstmorg tomorrow. Last year I enjoyed making @MakingKnowing's imitation coral with Donna Bilak. imaginarien-der-kraft.uni-ha…

7:00 PM · Jan 18, 2021

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2/14 We had fun & produced lovely specimens: nitter.net/dominikhhh/statu…. We also heard from @whitmer_kelly about "Realia and the utility of play in educational reform projects" #Coral symbolises the importance of playfulness in knowledge formation, don't you think? #OceanhistAPM
It was a blast! We had great fun and learned so much. Also produced a lot of coral. 😁
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4/14 Looking for #coral in my twitter bubble was so interesting & this thread presents some examples. Donna Bilak & @taranummedal produced the fab born digital edition of M. Maier's Atalanta fugiens. nitter.net/taranummedal/sta… Look & listen: furnaceandfugue.org #OceanhistAPM
Furnace and Fugue, co-edited with Donna Bilak, out with @uvapress today! So proud of the collaboration that made this possible: different career stages, different relationships to the academy, and different disciplines #furnaceandfugue #alchemy @MellonFdn upress.virginia.edu/content/…
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5/14 Emblem 32 is a beautiful image & text on #coral with this fantastic line: "This is the Philosophical vegetable, animal, and mineral Coral, which lies occult in the vast ocean, and is not known." Perfect for #OceanhistAPM, right? furnaceandfugue.org/atalanta…
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6/14 Of course many #museums hold #OceanhistAPM specimens, including #coral. @MNCN_Col, could you tell us a little bit more about this drawing?
For a long time the nature of the #coral was unknown. For the Greek philosopher Theophrastus it was a red gem, highly sought after for ornaments and jewelry, which also had medicinal properties. Dioscorides talks about a curious plant which changes when it comes out of the water.
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7/14 As we all know #documentation & #metadata are key in #museum work both for #nathist as well as for #HistSTM . This is a great example form @CardiffCurator showing us their work with #coral and other #oceanhistAPM
Our marine #volunteer Eva is doing a wonderful job photo-documenting & re-boxing the @AmgueddfaCymru coral collection so we & others can see at a glance what we have. This will be an amazing resource to help us make the best use of this collection #Museum30
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8/14 #Coral is a fascinating #oceanhistAPM to talk about "response-ability" for the natural world, as @marioninmcr has recently argued. And I totally agree and love the phrase.
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9/14 Looking at #oceanhistAPM is of course inspired by the environmental problems of today. As we all know, #coral reefs are fragile ecosystems as @IPBES reminds us.
🙅🌎Human activity endangers #coral health 🌊A new #algal threat is taking advantage of coral’s already precarious situation in the #Caribbean & making it harder for reef #ecosystems to grow ✍️@UniofOxford @csunorthridge @carnegiescience @nresearchnews carnegiescience.edu/news/car…
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10/14 #Mapping & #taxonomy are important topics in #HistSTM & #envhist, also concerning #oceanhistAPM. Current work by @WRMarineSpecies and others builds on long (and partly violent) traditions. Here is a collection of #coral reef maps:
Scientists create largest collection of coral reef maps ever made news.miami.edu/rsmas/stories… #marinespecies @marineregions
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11/14 For a #map that visualises humans' dependency on #coral, look at this from @decolonialatlas nitter.net/decolonialatlas/…. #OceanthistAPM also needs to incorporate this aspect.
Over 25% of marine life, rely on coral reefs for food & shelter. Though reefs cover less than 1% of the earth’s surface & less than 2% of the ocean bottom. But humans also benefit from healthy coral in a variety of ways that we call "ecosystem services.” buff.ly/37Z9YK7
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12/14 The #HistSTM of #coral and other #oceanhistAPM is also deeply colonial as @TamaraFernando3 highlights.
Every time I hear posthuman/postanthropocentric comparisons of humans = coral reefs to displace the centrality of Enlightenment “man”, I wonder about the imperial origins of many of these early studies. Here’s some choice plates from William Herdmans 1903-06 reports frm Ceylon
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13/14 This history of #coral includes not only #oceanhistAPM but also land-based species. E.g. #coraltrees. This example from @karnold01 shows entangled histories but also #C18 racist taxonomies, as #CPThunberg's species epithet (Erythrina caffra) shows
While writing today about Jan Andreas Auge, one of the last superintendents of the Dutch Cape Company Garden, he recalled in 1804 nursing a corallodendron, which today is known as the Erythrina caffra (Thunb.), or African coral tree. Apparently, the official tree of Los Angeles!
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14/14 Hope you all enjoyed this short #histknow #histSTM #envhist #oceanhist of #coral . Now I want to hear your #oceanhistAPM stories! 😉
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