Stockholms universitet
Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur

Seminarium: Dolly Jörgensson

Seminarium

Datum: tisdag 11 november 2025

Tid: 15.00 – 17.00

Plats: Accelerators konsthall

The Green Zone Seminar hösten 2025 i Accelerators konsthall.

Dolly Jörgensen, Stavanger: Extinction Remains: The challenge of displaying contemporary mass extinction.

Abstract
We are currently living through a major extinction event with vast numbers of species across the planet rapidly becoming extinct because of human actions, from climate change to habitat conversion to pollution. At least 322 vertebrates are known to have become extinct since 1500, and many more invertebrates and plants. The high number of species either recently extinct or facing imminent extinction and the great speed at which extermination is happening even exceeds the most well-studied extinction event—the dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. What remains after a species has become extinct and how can museums engage with those remains?

Because museums and galleries are one of the primary sites of public engagement in many types of environmental issues, including extinction, we need critical reflection on how they can be used to cultivate thinking about non-human species. In this talk I will discuss two types of remains of the extinct: the tangible bodily remains and the intangible stories that remain. Drawing on examples of extinct species on display at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and other examples in my new book Ghosts Behind Glass, I will discuss the challenges of curating both kinds of remains. Extinction remains have the potential to raise awareness of the connections between humans and nonhumans over time, and how they affect our culture.

Senast uppdaterad: 7 oktober 2025

Sidansvarig: Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur

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