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