UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 2 University Museums and the Community 16-20 September 2008 Hosted by The Manchester Museum and The Whitworth Art Gallery at The University of Manchester, in partnership with the University Museums Group UK UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 3 1 UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 4 Welcome We would like to welcome you to the University of Manchester and to the 8th conference of UMAC – the first Contents time it has been held in the UK. The conference theme ‘University Museums and the Community’ is a vital one, as universities increasingly seek to engage with their local Page 2 Welcome population. University museums, of course, are well placed to act as channels for communication between the public Page 3-4 Programme and the world of academia. Page 5-23 Abstracts & We think we have put together a stimulating series of Biographies keynote speakers, lectures, and workshops, as well as a programme of visits to museums in the area. In order to maximize discussion we have experimented with the format of the conference and introduced more roundtable and small discussion groups – we hope you will find these a good way of engaging more closely with colleagues. There is also a good social programme in the course of the conference, so we hope you will enjoy your experience of visiting Manchester overall. We hope that you will find all the information you need about the conference and the locality in this handbook and other accompanying information. If you have any questions at all, please ask one of the conference team. Nick Merriman Director of The Manchester Museum Maria Balshaw Director of The Whitworth Art Gallery 2 UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 5 programme TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 12.00 Lunch Followed by two presentations: South Gallery 1. Darwin exhibition (Henry McGhie, Head All sessions are in The Whitworth Art (Committee meeting of University of Natural Sciences) Gallery unless otherwise stated Museums Group UK) 2. Collections and engagement (Malcolm Worthington Room Chapman, Head of Collections 15.00 UMAC Board Meeting Management) Worthington Room 13.00 University Museums Group UK Followed by discussion AGM Meet in the foyer of the Manchester 16.00 Conference registration opens Lecture Theatre Museum 16.30 UMAC working group meetings Session 2: Digital futures B: Art Gallery based session (Chair: Maria Balshaw, Whitworth Art 18.00 Introduction by Maria Balshaw, Gallery) Delegates are invited to explore the Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, and can choose followed by Welcome by Sir Howard 14.00 Keynote: Professor Michael from the following: Bernstein, Chief Executive, Manchester Shanks (Stanford University, USA) City Council Animating the Archive: mixed reality 1. Drawing Stonehenge and Some Smaller South Gallery museological futures Things: tour of the modern collection Lecture Theatre displays by Mary Griffiths (Curator, 18.10 Opening of ‘Cloth & Culture’ Modern Collection) exhibition by Lesley Miller 14.45 Panel session: 2. Cloth and Culture: tour of the exhibition South Gallery University Museums and the by Jennifer Harris (Deputy Director) Internet Community 3. Art and Labour’s Cause is One: Walter 18.00-19.30 Drinks reception Lucia Almeida Matos (University of Crane in Manchester: tour of the exhibition South Gallery/ Gulbenkian Gallery Porto, Portugal), Carl Hogsden (University by Helen Stalker (Assistant Curator) of Cambridge), Damon Monzavi 4. Public Engagement at the Whitworth: (University of Teheran, Iran), Cornelia Talk by Andrea Hawkins (Head of Public WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER Weber (Humboldt University of Berlin, Engagement) Germany), Mark Carnall (University Meet in the foyer of The Whitworth 09.00 Welcome by Cornelia Weber, College London) Art Gallery Chair of UMAC Lecture Theatre Lecture Theatre 19.00-21.00 Drinks reception 16.15 Break Mammals Gallery, Manchester Museum Session 1: Public Engagement South Gallery (Chair: Nichola Johnson, Chair of UMG UK) 19.15 Welcome from Professor Alan 17.15-18.45 Session 3: Choice of two Gilbert, President of the University 09.05 Keynote: Dame Nancy Rothwell site-based tours and discussions of Manchester (Deputy President and Deputy Vice- Chancellor, the University of Manchester) A: Multiple Voices in the University The Increasing Importance of Public Museum THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER Engagement in the Higher Education Sector Delegates are invited to explore the Session 4: Formal and informal learning Lecture Theatre Manchester Museum’s community (Chair: Pete Brown, University of engagement work with two 15 min tours Manchester) 09.45 Break from the following three options: South Gallery 1. Myths about Race (Sam Alberti, 09.00 Keynote: Michael John Gorman, Research Fellow and Stephen Welsh, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin 10.15 Panel session: University Museums Curator of Living Cultures) Re-imagining the public face of the as Beacons of Public Engagement 2. Lindow Man (Bryan Sitch, Curator of University in the 21st Century Erinma Ochu (University of Manchester), Archaeology) Lecture Theatre Steve Cross (University College London), 3. Collective Conversations (Gurdeep Lindsay Allason-Jones (University of Thiara, Curator of Community Newcastle) Engagement) Lecture Theatre 3 UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 6 09.30 Choice of participation in round 11.45 UMAC AGM C: Strategic realignment to reach table discussions or site based tour and Lecture Theatre specific communities: presentations Axel Christophersen & Morten A: Roundtable workshop discussions 13.15 Lunch Steffersen (NTNU University, Trondheim, on role of university museums in South Gallery Norway); Edmon Castell (National formal and informal learning. University of Colombia) Presenters: Table 1: Karl van Dyke 14.30 Museum visits: Worthington Room (Macquarie University, Australia); Table 2: 1. Lowry Art Gallery and Imperial War Juliette Bianco (Dartmouth College, Museum North 11.30 Break USA); Table 3: Celine West (University 2. Urbis South Gallery College London); Table 4: 3. Museum of Science & Industry Foo Su Ling (National University of 4. Manchester City Art Gallery 12.00 Report back and plenary Singapore); Table 5: Rebekah Moran Lecture Theatre (University of Reading, UK); Table 6: Janet 18.00 UMAC Board meeting Stott & Sarah Lloyd (University of Worthington Room 13.00 Lunch Oxford, UK); Table 7: Carmen Sanchez- Session 6: Audience development Mora (University of Mexico); Table 8: 19.30 Conference dinner (Chair: Andrea Hawkins, University of Chris Jarvis (University of Oxford, UK); Moso Moso restaurant, Oxford Road Manchester) Table 9: Christopher Parkin (University of Oxford, UK); Table 10: Dominick 14.00 Keynote: Jane Pickering (Peabody Verschelde (University of Ghent, Belgium) FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER Museum, Yale University, USA) South Gallery Ivory Tower or Welcoming Neighbour? Session 5: Developing relationships Engaging Our Local Communities 10.30 Break (Chair, Nick Merriman, University of Lecture Theatre South Gallery Manchester) 14.30 Panel session: 11.00-11.45 Feedback from facilitators 09.30 Keynote : Professor Amareswar The internal audience as leisure users and plenary discussion led by chair of Galla (University of Queensland, Australia) Jack Ashby (University College London, overall morning session The University Museum as a Site for UK); Joy Todd (University of Oxford, UK); Lecture Theatre Intercultural Dialogue and Sustainable Tiina Metso (University of Helsinki, Development Finland); 09.45-11.15 Lecture Theatre Mirna Heruc (University of Adelaide, B: Site-based session at Manchester Australia) Metropolitan University 10.00 Three concurrent workshops Lecture Theatre Special Collections A: University Museums and their Public Speaking – research, exhibition relationship to the city: 16.00-16.30 Final Plenary session. and the public imagination David Ellis (University of Sydney, Summary of conference themes by Sally Australia); Adele Finley (University of MacDonald, Chair of UMAC Conference Three case-studies will be presented: Manchester, UK); Reet Mägi (University of Academic Committee and closing remarks Tartu, Estonia) by Cornelia Weber, Chair of UMAC. Out of the Ordinary 2006: work by Sharon Lecture Theatre Lecture Theatre Blakey and Hazel Jones, artists/staff from MMU B: University Museums and hard-to- Saturday 20 September: reach audiences: Optional trip to Liverpool Firing Thoughts: exploring the relationship Susan Birch (University of Oxford, UK); (for those who have signed up and paid). between ceramics and drawing Ingrid Birker (McGill University, Canada); 9.30: coach pick-up from central Manchester Gill Hart (University of Cambridge, UK) 11.00: Visit to Albert Dock area (Tate Confected Landscapes, Cultural Wallpaper South Gallery Liverpool, International Slavery Museum, and Contemporary Vignettes: Ceramics, Merseyside Maritime Museum) print and a selection of objects from the Lunch (own expense) MMU Special Collections. Bringing the 2.00: Coach to World Museum results of a practiced based PhD into the Liverpool and Walker Art Gallery public arena. 4.30 Return to Manchester (arrive c.5.30) Manchester Metropolitan University Further details can be found in your delegate bag. 4 UMAC.brochure.qxd:Layout 1 8/10/08 10:41 Page 7 abstracts and biographies Wednesday 17 September Nancy Rothwell obtained a first class 10.15am: Panel discussion degree in Physiology in 1976, a PhD University Museums as Beacons 9am: Keynote address in 1978 and a DSc in 1987 from the of Public Engagement