Welcome to the Acquisition Disorder podcast, the show where we select a modern board game and use it as a jumping-off point to discuss museum practice, past and present, and colonial histories and legacies. I’m your host, Izzy Bartley, and in our final episode, we’re joining a 19th-century jungle expedition and exploring the practices and ethics of historical natural science collecting and what it feels like to play the colonial explorer.
How does the game Papua reflect past museum practices and colonial violences? To help me unpick these themes, I’m joined by two colleagues from Leeds Museums and Galleries: Clare Brown, Curator of Natural Sciences, Community Curator Rathi Tamilselven.
In this episode, we discuss:
So join us as we roll dice, shuffle cards and above all, geek out over great conversations.
References and further reading
You can read a transcript of this conversation here and see the board game Papua here.
Production Credits:
This podcast was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
This production was supported by Research Podcasts.
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