Connecting with Collections Symposium

Friday 27th September 2013

10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
8 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1RX
United Kingdom

Keynote Speaker: 
Dr Sam Alberti, Objects of Knowledge: Using Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Museums.Sam Alberti is Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which includes the renowned Hunterian Museum.

● 6 Museums ● 6 Projects ● 6 Early Career Researchers ●

Six post-doctoral researchers will present their new research projects at a one-day symposium.  Between January 2013 and September 2013, the six researchers have led individual AHRC-funded internship projects at six Museums and Collections across the University of Cambridge Museums.

Six researchers: 
Leena Rana, Fitzwilliam Museum
Aaron Jaffer, Fitzwilliam Museum
Rebecca Wade, Museum of Classical Archaeology
Pippa Lacey, Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Seb Falk, Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Lorna Richardson, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Museum of Zoology

The AHRC-funded programme incorporates a range of disciplinary approaches and outcomes. In addition, the early career researchers are engaging in public talks, education workshops, outreach, open days, digital blogs, presenting conference papers.  Each is curating an actual and/or virtual exhibition of their research.

This programme is supported by University of Cambridge Museums, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts Council England, through the UCM’s Connecting with Connections Initiative. This initiative aims to transform access to the exceptional collections and research resources of University of Cambridge Museums.

Lunch and refreshments are provided.
The event is free.  Booking essential, via Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4511522084

Sir Michael Sadler Symposium - free event at Leeds Art Gallery

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is co-organising a free symposium with Leeds Art Gallery, celebrating the wider legacy of Sir Michael Sadler, our University Vice Chancellor 1911-1923.

You might remember the Sadler Gift exhibition at the Gallery last Autumn? Sadler was certainly generous with his art collection to the University of Leeds, but his influence was felt throughout the city and beyond as well. He helped the curator of Leeds Art Gallery, Frank Rutter, to set up one of the (now!) oldest Friends organisations in the UK in 1912 - the Leeds Art Collections Fund. The LACF is therefore celebrating its centenary year in 2012; at the end of this symposium day, all attendees are invited to the PV for the LACF centenary exhibition.

More info and booking is now online.

IMAGE: Mark Gertler (1891/2-1939), Portrait of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI, 1915, oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. T.E. Harvey, 1953 © University of Leeds Art Collection/Photo: Norman Taylor, 2011

Hybrid Art & Science Symposium

I'm going along to this symposium and I've heard there's still places available until the 13th of March if anyone else is interested, it's £15 for students and £20 for grown-ups. It looks like an excellent companion to the museum and heritage technology seminars we've been treated to recently. There's more information here.