Programs, Past Meetings
XVI, Leiden 2011: Conceptualizing, Collecting and Presenting Recent Science and Technology
SUNDAY, 25 September. Museum Boerhaave
15:00-15:30 Registration and Tea
15:30-17:00 Pre-conference tour
17:00-17:10 Welcome and Introduction
17:10-18:00 Plenary lecture by Johan Schot (Eindhoven University of Technology), "The Inventing Europe virtual exhibit: Making connections" abstract
18:00-19:00 Reception
MONDAY, 26 September
8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:10 Introduction
Session 1. Chair: Bernard Finn (Smithsonian, NMAH)
9:10-9:30 Jennifer S. Landry (Chemical Heritage Foundation), "After the Doors Opened: Reevaluating the Collecting Strategy for CHF" abstract
9:30-9:50 Ad Maas (Museum Boerhaave), "The Unilever collection and the dilemma’s of collecting modern chemical heritage" abstract
9:50-10:10 discussion
10:10-10:30 break
Session 2. Chair: Klaus Staubermann (National Museums Scotland)
10:30-10:50 Bryan Dewalt (Canada Science and Technology Museum), "Sound and Light Show: Curating an Exhibit on Current Science" abstract
10:50-11:10 Peter Donhauser (Vienna Museum of Technology), "Radio transmitter stations of the 1930s as industrial heritage" abstract
11:10-11:30 discussion
11:30-11:50 break
Session 3. Chair: Bryan Dewalt
11:50-12:10 Cathleen Lewis (Smithsonian, NASM), "Collecting a spacesuit in the 21st century" abstract
12:10-12:30 Valerie Neal (Smithsonian, NASM), "Mission accomplished or mission impossible? Collecting spaceflight artifacts of the shuttle era" abstract
12:30-12:50 discussion
12:50-14:00 lunch
Session 4. Chair: Bart Grob
14:00-14:20 Thomas Söderqvist (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen), "Collection Impossible: Distributed curatorship and crowd-sourcing as alternatives to centralised collecting" abstract
14:20-14:40 Joseph Tatarewicz (University of Maryland Baltimore County) and Joyce Bedi (Smithsonian,NMAH), "Training Practitioners: Actors, Artifacts, and Public Expectations" abstract
14:40-15:00 discussion
15:00-15:20 break
Session 5. Chair: Tim Huisman
15:20-15:40 Roland Wittje (University of Regensburg), "Recent scientific heritage at universities" abstract
15:40-16:00 Louise Whiteley (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen), "Preserving the material culture of functional neuroimaging: Objects of process" abstract
16:00-16:20 discussion
16:20-16:40 break
16:40-18:00 Museum updates
18:00 dinner
TUESDAY, 27 September
Session 6. Chair: Oskar Blumtritt (Deutsches Museum)
9:00-9:20 Peter Schüssler (Deutsches Museum), "The collection-related oral history project at Deutsches Museum" abstract
9:20-9:40 Olov Amelin (Nobel Museum), "Against Method: A story based policy for collecting artefacts from Nobel laureates" abstract
9:40-10:00 Margaret Vining (Smithsonian, NHAH) and Barton C. Hacker (Smithsonian, NMAH), "A look askance: Military and medical technology in the satiric art of Garry Trudeau" abstract
10:00-10:30 discussion
10:30-10:40 break
10:40-12:00. Panel Discussion.Chair: Martin Collins (Smithsonian, NASM)
Panel: Robert Bud (Science Museum), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Musuem), Klaus Staubermann, Thomas Söderqvist, "Should Artefacts cooperatively develop a strategy for collecting recent science and technology?" abstract
12:00-12:30 Closing Remaerks: Robert Anderson (Cambridge University)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
14:00-16:00 After conference tour behind the scenes: restoration and storage