Diane Courtin
@dianecourtin.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Museology of science & Plant Humanities | Botanical collections | Theory of museum display
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Diane Courtin
@dianecourtin.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Don’t miss our new seminar « Museums and contemporary issues », tuesday 21st January to hear about dealing with the colonial heritage of natural history collection with @jackdashby.bsky.social
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Session 1 : The Colonial Heritage of Natural History Collections
Tuesday, 21th January 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 PM On-site in the amphitheatre “Rouelle”, Jardin des Plantes, National museum of natural history, Paris (see map here) Online, link to come here This session wi...
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C'est le lancement de notre séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" mardi prochain ! Rejoignez-nous 🌿🦘🐚
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There are still a few weeks left to submit your proposals for our ECR Symposium next year!
We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers!
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers!
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
📢 Call for Papers! 📢
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There are still a few weeks left to submit your proposals for our ECR Symposium next year!
We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers!
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
We'd love papers from across the field which speak to all aspects of the history of natural history by early career researchers!
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
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An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙
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Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history
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Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
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Première session du colloque international "Études de provenances des collections de sciences naturelles et humaines : Muséologie et histoire pour le temps présent" @mnhn.fr où l'on parle objets africains, insectes, restes humains, géologie et même assassinat du général Kléber
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Première session du colloque international "Études de provenances des collections de sciences naturelles et humaines : Muséologie et histoire pour le temps présent" @mnhn.fr où l'on parle objets africains, insectes, restes humains, géologie et même assassinat du général Kléber
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Exciting news! Bookings for the conference we are organising with National Gallery are now live! www.mghg.info/forthcoming-... Join us on 26-27 September to learn about the histories behind museum creation. In person or online. Booking link available on our website/ National Gallery.
Forthcoming Events — Museums and Galleries History Group
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August 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Exciting news! Bookings for the conference we are organising with National Gallery are now live! www.mghg.info/forthcoming-... Join us on 26-27 September to learn about the histories behind museum creation. In person or online. Booking link available on our website/ National Gallery.
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BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 Winner 🎉
Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science"
A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨
www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...
Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science"
A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨
www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 Winner 🎉
Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science"
A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨
www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...
Congratulations to Renée Bergland as the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 for "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science"
A brilliant book opening 19th-c histSTEM to a broader public📖✨
www.bshs.org.uk/the-winner-o...
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I'll be speaking at the Plants on Paper exhibit opening reception on Oct. 3 from 3-5PM - let me know if you'd like an invite! We'll look at some gorgeous botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, cyanotypes, and other 19thC plant-based objects, many of them produced by women. 🌸
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'll be speaking at the Plants on Paper exhibit opening reception on Oct. 3 from 3-5PM - let me know if you'd like an invite! We'll look at some gorgeous botanical illustrations, herbarium specimens, cyanotypes, and other 19thC plant-based objects, many of them produced by women. 🌸
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And if you're in the area, check out the exhibit Plants on Paper: Artists' Engagement with the Green World at Yale's Arts Library, which is beautiful and rich (checklist + bibliography linked on the website). Open until 11/2.
guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhi...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
And if you're in the area, check out the exhibit Plants on Paper: Artists' Engagement with the Green World at Yale's Arts Library, which is beautiful and rich (checklist + bibliography linked on the website). Open until 11/2.
guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhi...
guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhi...
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Le programme 2025-2026 du séminaire 'Muséum, objet d'histoire' est en ligne. Centré sur l'histoire du @mnhn.fr il rend aussi compte de l’actualité en histoire des sciences sur et autour des institutions savantes naturalistes @recherche.mnhn.fr
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September 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Le programme 2025-2026 du séminaire 'Muséum, objet d'histoire' est en ligne. Centré sur l'histoire du @mnhn.fr il rend aussi compte de l’actualité en histoire des sciences sur et autour des institutions savantes naturalistes @recherche.mnhn.fr
objethistoire.hypotheses.org
objethistoire.hypotheses.org
Romane Le Roux, @adelechevalier.bsky.social et moi-même y présenterons une communication sur la création de la galerie de minéralogie, de géologie et de botanique du Muséum à la fin des années 1830 ! Un dépouillement d'archives à six mains pour mieux comprendre la répartition des collections 🏛️🪨🌿📚
We are thrilled to announce our annual conference, this year in collaboration with the National Gallery! Join us on 26-27 September, to celebrate together their bicentenary, exploring the theme: ‘Creating the Museum: exploring the museum impulse in local, regional and national contexts’. (1/2)
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Romane Le Roux, @adelechevalier.bsky.social et moi-même y présenterons une communication sur la création de la galerie de minéralogie, de géologie et de botanique du Muséum à la fin des années 1830 ! Un dépouillement d'archives à six mains pour mieux comprendre la répartition des collections 🏛️🪨🌿📚
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Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
September 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
"Le saviez-vous ?" édition cryptogamie 🍄
Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.
Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Le saviez-vous ?" édition cryptogamie 🍄
Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.
Dessins de Michelle Bory pour le Salon du Champignon du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1967.
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In yesterday's Museums: Power & Politics class I asked students what they collect (thanks to @alexzivkovic.bsky.social)! Their answers were similarly sweet and really helped me get to know them. My answer: I keep a little cabinet of curiosities at home filled with mosses, rocks, minerals, etc...
August 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In yesterday's Museums: Power & Politics class I asked students what they collect (thanks to @alexzivkovic.bsky.social)! Their answers were similarly sweet and really helped me get to know them. My answer: I keep a little cabinet of curiosities at home filled with mosses, rocks, minerals, etc...
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The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
May 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
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Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
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about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
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July 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.
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Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project
The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist
The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist
May 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Happy to share the news that I have won the Young Researcher Fellowship - with a 3-year research project to enlarge the focus of my MSCA and explore aspects that were not within that project
The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist
The title is: Constructing the Environment: A History of Botanical Knowledge before 1800 #ConEnvHist
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« Vivre et penser le temps dans les Amériques », c’est cette semaine au Campus Condorcet ! 🕰️ 🌎
June 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
« Vivre et penser le temps dans les Amériques », c’est cette semaine au Campus Condorcet ! 🕰️ 🌎
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" Collections et armées "
Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr
📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025
📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris
⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15
➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...
Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr
📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025
📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris
⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15
➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
" Collections et armées "
Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr
📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025
📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris
⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15
➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...
Le séminaire des collections de Science de la Terre et de l'Univers du @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr
📅 Jeudi 12 juin 2025
📍 Amphithéâtre de Paléontologie du MNHN, 2 rue Buffon 75005 Paris
⏰ 10h00 - 12h15 • 14h00 - 17h15
➡️ paleo.mnhn.fr/sites/cr2p/f...
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🦍 What are the magic tricks behind a perfect diorama?
🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets?
☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝
I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory
🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets?
☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝
I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory
Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🦍 What are the magic tricks behind a perfect diorama?
🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets?
☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝
I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory
🪄What are natural history #museums' trade secrets?
☘️Why are plants and insects so poortly represented in these museums?🐝
I had a great time on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about #NaturesMemory. 🔊Listen:
newbooksnetwork.com/natures-memory
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Alerte ! Les résultats d'un projet remarquable mené par une équipe d'archivistes sur les réseaux de femmes archéologues aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles sont enfin en ligne.
Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones.
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Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...
Women transcending boundaries
Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes
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May 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Alerte ! Les résultats d'un projet remarquable mené par une équipe d'archivistes sur les réseaux de femmes archéologues aux XIXe et début du XXe siècles sont enfin en ligne.
Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...
Need la même chose pour les archéologues francophones.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...
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6ème séance du séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" demain à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : @p-stewens.bsky.social examinera la façon dont les réflexions sur les restitutions muséales s'appliquent aux collections naturalistes 🦕🐚🪴 @recherche.mnhn.fr
museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477
museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477
Session 6: Repatriations of Natural History Collections
Tuesday, 3rd June 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 PM GMT+1 On-site in the amphitheatre “Rouelle”, Jardin des Plantes, National museum of natural history, Paris (see map here) Online, link on demand at museumsenjeux...
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June 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
6ème séance du séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" demain à 17h30 à @mnhn.fr : @p-stewens.bsky.social examinera la façon dont les réflexions sur les restitutions muséales s'appliquent aux collections naturalistes 🦕🐚🪴 @recherche.mnhn.fr
museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477
museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/477
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Passionate about #restitution? Curious about what it means for natural history #museums? Then this event is for you! I'll be speaking at the @mnhn.fr on 3 June 2025 about this very issue - and you can join my hybrid lecture from anywhere!
More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...
More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...
Paul P. Stewens | Upcoming lecture 'A Tale of Two Museums - Introducing the Issue of Restitution to Natural History Museums' (Paris/hybrid)
On 3 June 2025, I will give a hybrid lecture at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle titled 'A Tale of Two Museums - Introducing the Issue of Restitution to Natural History Museums'.
paul-stewens.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Passionate about #restitution? Curious about what it means for natural history #museums? Then this event is for you! I'll be speaking at the @mnhn.fr on 3 June 2025 about this very issue - and you can join my hybrid lecture from anywhere!
More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...
More info: paul-stewens.com/news/lecture...