GHOSTS OF EXTINCTION - The Resurrection of Lost Species with Bill Adams

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  • Something A Little Different, Pop-Up and Festival
  • Tickets from £12.00
  • East London
  • Over 18
  • Thu, 17th Oct 2019 @ 19:00 - 21:00
  • 19:00 - 21:00

‘Ghost species’ haunt the conservation imagination. From the Dodo to the Tasmanian tiger, conservationists look back with longing to animals that are gone, and tell and re-tell morality tales about the greed and lack of care that drove them to extinction.

Extinction is imagined as an edge towards which species are pushed by human action or inaction, and over which they fall, to disappear forever. And yet ghost species remain present, in spectral but powerful form. They lure conservationists to fix their gaze back to what is lost and being lost. But what would happen if we turned around and looked forwards?

In this talk, Bill explores the new science of de-extinction, proposing to bring species like the passenger pigeon or the wooly mammoth back from the museum and fossil record. If such ghosts can be conjured back to life, is there hope beyond extinction?

Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to Brompton Cemetery

Bill Adams
Bill Adams is Moran Professor of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches in the Department of Geography. He writes about people and nature from the perspectives of political ecology and environmental history. His books include Future Nature (Earthscan 2003) and Against Extinction (Earthscan 2004). He blogs at thinkinglikeahuman.com.

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Ghosts of Extinction 19:00 - 21:00 £12.00

Location

Address

The King's Head, 257 Kingsland Rd, E2 8AS

Area

East London

Nearest Station

Old Street (Tube)

Organiser

A Curious Invitation
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city. Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported. The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

Venue

The King's Head Members Club

Concealed beneath a derelict public house, The King’s Head private members’ club is East London’s best kept secret. Founded in 2013 and located in the heart of Shoreditch, this exquisite venue offers multiple large rooms that boast character. Enclosed over four floors, The Kings Head showcases…

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