Join us for the opening of our new mini-exhibition of material culture. This semester's exhibition is focused on the thylacine, a marsupial once found in the mainland of Australia. Ph.D. student Daisy Ahlstone will present their personal collection of thylacine artifacts and discuss the debate on whether the thylacine is actually extinct or merely in hiding. Legends abound on recent sightings of this mysterious animal, and there is a wealth of material culture celebrating what was once called the "Tasmanian Tiger."
We'll have light refreshments and artmaking stations to make cryptid crafts, cryptid greeting cards, zines and more.
This event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the Center for Folklore Studies.
Daisy Ahlstone studies ecological metaphor through a lens of folklore, posthumanism and participatory action research and project design. Their research interests involve participatory action research, collaborative project design, metafolkloristics, extinction, metaphor, public folklore, digital communication, decomposition and more. They are the director of a YouTube and Twitch streaming channel called Folkwise, which brings the discipline of folklore to community-engaged digital platforms.
