Chitra Ramalingam

history of science, photography, museums. director of academic engagement @Guggenheim | editor @100_Worlds

[DARK LAB @LaboratoryDark]

Dark Lab is excited to be welcoming more interns this summer in NYC. If you’re doing research on race, tech, and climate reach out. Please email your inquiries and cvs. 🧪👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏾‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬🥽

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@LaboratoryDark Are students just graduating this spring still eligible?

[Emily MarkFitzGerald @emilymfg]

… and finished with a super engaging and brilliant keynote by Chitra Ramalingam throwing provocative questions on preservation conundrums of early #photography - noting that no single ‘pure’ copy of Talbot’s Pencil of Nature exists @bodleianlibs

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@IBJIYONGI @histoftech @beansvelocci !!

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@beastruz Don’t remember if it’s necessarily the best example for teaching though, as I remember the essay taking many pages to slowly tease out layers of meaning

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@beastruz Joan Schwartz’s essay “the archival garden” does this with half of a William England stereo-pair in National Gallery of Canada and Library and Archives Canada. Aesthetic framework vs documentary framework

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@SadiahQureshi Huge congratulations, Sadiah!!

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@taoleighgoffe This looks incredible!

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@eayers0 @DrVerityBurke @NCaomhanach @EllieTheElement and @Kopo_Oromeng ran a workshop last year for students at UDel on approaches to mineralogy collections that I was a part of, and I know they collected a lot of resources for students for this - they might have a suggestion?

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@eayers0 @DrVerityBurke @NCaomhanach i've looked for this too, and haven't found it. I agree there's a need. for 1 specific methodology: I do like Alberti's "museum nature" or "objects and the museum" as a short and sweet intro to the possibilities of the object biography approach for natural history specimens

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

Me too! a bit disappointed I have to do it remotely this year...

[Sara Dominici saradominici.bsky.social @saradominici_]

Looking forward to the #photohist event of the year and to @architraved and @AnnebellaPollen keynote lectures!

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@terry_renaud This is terrible and senseless news, Terry. For all of us. I’m so sorry and angry.

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

these photos beautifully document a) how incredibly rich the Yale Peabody HST collection is as an archive of photographic practice in science and b) why visual/material culture research is an obvious risk factor for lower back pain

[Dr. Alexi Baker @AlexiBaker]

It was wonderful to share our History of Science & Technology collection at @yalepeabody with amazing Yale photography courses taught by Jennifer Raab, @SiobhanAngus & Chitra Ramalingam @architraved! https://t.co/2E5ssxRwHh #museums #twitterstorians #histSTM #arthistory #teaching

[GEEX: Glass Education Exchange @GEEXglass]

Dr. Chitra Ramalingam’s GEEX Talks lecture premieres tonight at 6:15 PM US Central! @architraved @pghglasscenter

In the lecture, Dr. Ramalingam examines and troubles the glassiness of the scientific archive and re-asserts its material nature.

LINK: https://t.co/X9s1LiQDmU [1/3]

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@HMaloigne @MidEastInEurope @aaprocter thank you!!

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

one of my students is doing a research project on museum gift shops and British identity, partly inspired by @aaprocter on Tipu's Tiger at the V&A shop. are there other key writings out there on museum shops they should read & cite?

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

@DrJennie_Morgan @Heritage_Things @MidEastInEurope @aaprocter ah, thank you both - this looks excellent!

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

Had so much fun preparing & recording this talk on the glassiness of the photographic archive of science... and am so looking forward to the Q&A. Such a great series run by lovely ppl with a well thought out asynchronous model for virtual talks & I'm thrilled to be part of it!

[GEEX: Glass Education Exchange @GEEXglass]

Next week: Dr. Chitra Ramalingam’s GEEX Talks lecture premieres on Monday, April 4, at 6:15 PM US Central! @architraved

Dr. Ramalingam explores how glass has been implicated in how we understand the natural world – whether mirror, memory, or something entirely different. [1/3]

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

HOW TO BE AN EXPERT - our latest essays&reviews section for @HSNatSci takes on expertise and its discontents, with contributions from a brilliant lineup of historians and STS scholars

[Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @HSNatSci]

Co-edited by Henry Cowles and Chitra Ramalingam, HOW TO BE AN EXPERT @HSNatSci 52/1 (2022): 118-146. Read their Introduction here: https://t.co/QlorpfxT77 #histSTM

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

I guess not yet. Don't look at me, I'm not writing it. But would happily read it

[Chitra Ramalingam @architraved]

is there an interesting art history/visual culture/museum studies analysis out there of the "flat lay" and its recent proliferation in product photography and social media?