Programs, Past Meetings
XXIV, Edinburgh, 2019: Diversity
Sunday 20 October
Day Visit Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk exhibition. National Museum of Scotland, Exhibition Gallery 2, Level 3 (Recommended, free, open 10:00-17:00
18:00—20:00 Drinks reception and welcome. Surgeons’ Hall Medical Museum
20:00 Dinner (by individual arrangement)
Monday 21 October
National Museum of Scotland
10:00—10:20 Arrival with coffee & tea
10:20—10:30 Welcome Xerxes Mazda, Director of Collections, National Museums Scotland
10:30—12:00 Session I: Documentation
Chair: Richard Dunn, Science Museum Group
Hattie Lloyd, Emma MacNicol, and Donata Miller, Science Museum, “One Collection and diverse narratives.”
Alexi Baker, Yale Peabody Museum, “Reawakening the diversity in an ‘old, white, male’ university collection”
Joyce Bedi, Smithsonian Lemelson Center, “Recovering diverse voices in the history of invention”
12:00—12:15 Coffee & tea break
12:15—13:00 Roundtable “Experiences of Disability in Science: Objects, Oral Histories, and Public Audiences”
Chair: Sophie Goggins, National Museums Scotland
Jessica Martucci, University of Pennsylvania; Britt Dahlberg, Science History Institute; Erin McLeary, Science History Institute
13:00—14:00 Lunch
14:00—15:30 Session II: Museums
Chair: Tim Boon, Science Museum Group Robert Anderson, Science History Institute, “Science Museums: Cases of nondiversity?”
Robert Friedel, University of Maryland, “Curiosities to Collections: Diversity and the meaning and purpose of science museums”
Roman Artemenko, Polytechnic Museum, “Descriptions vs Objects. Anomalies and internal censorship in collections of Polytechnic Museum”
15:30—15:45 Coffee & tea break
15:45—17:00 National Museums Scotland Session
Chair: Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland
17:00—19:00 Reception and buffet
Tuesday 22 October
National Museum of Scotland
10:00—11:30 Session III: Objects
Chair: Eva Åhrén, Karolinska Institutet
Artemis Yagou, Deutsches Museum, “Hidden Diversity: A pocket watch with Ottoman numerals from the Deutsches Museum collection”
Neil Handley, British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists, “Diversity among the medical professions: A spectacle with a history”
Karin Tybjerg, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen “Epistemic diversity in a bottle of cholera”
11:30—11:45 Coffee & tea break
11:45—12:30 Short Presentations
Chair: Catherine Eagleton, University of St Andrews
Phil Loring, Norsk Teknisk Museum, “On not collecting animal research”
Sarah Baines & Francesca Elliott, Science and Industry Museum, “’I needed to be as good as the white engineers, or better’: bringing diverse workers’ voices to the Science and Industry Museum’s Power Hall”
Eleanor Armstrong, University College London, “The right stuff? Gender and sexuality narratives in permanent space science museum galleries”
12:30—14:00 Institutional Updates and Lunch
14:00—15:30 Session IV Humans
Chair: Chris Henry, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Sappol, Uppsala University, “What should we do with historical collections of human remains and derivatives?”
Tim Huisman, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, “Physical anthropology in the museum: Diversity and inclusiveness vs a traditional narrative”
15:30—16:00 Epilogue
Barney Finn, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, “Diversity among museums of history of science and technology”
16:00—17:00 Gallery tours at National Museum of Scotland
Wed 23 October
National Museums Collection Centre Tour (Optional)