MAY 6 – 8, 2015
WEDNESDAY
TALK & RECEPTION @ Edna Lawrence Nature Lab
- 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. Andrew Yang | Gleaning New Meaning: Reintegrating Collections with the Expanding Ecology
- 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. Reception
THURSDAY
LIGHT BREAKFAST @ Kassar Fox Auditorium Lobby
Pastries & fruit provided
9:00 – 9:30 A.M.
SESSION 1: COLLECTING THE EPHEMERAL @ Kassar Fox Auditorium
9:30 – 11:15 A.M.
- Eric Crosby | Uncollectable: Walker Art Center Commissions
- Hanna Holling | On the Relative Duration of the Impermanent and the Aesthetics of Change in Museums
- Anthony Marcellini & Emily Zimmerman | The Museum of Obsolescence
- Christine Delucia | Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: The Afterlives of an Early American Museum at Yale College
KEYNOTE @ Kassar Fox Auditorium
11:30 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
- Elizabeth Merritt VIDEO
LUNCH @ Kassar Fox Lobby/ Green on Benevolent St.
Lunch provided
12:15 – 1:00 P.M.
TEA & TOURS
1:00 – 3:30 P.M.
SESSION 2: RECREATIONS & RECOVERY @ Kassar Fox Auditorium VIDEO
3:45 – 5:30 P.M.
- Crystal Ngo | Original Copy: Museums and the Economy of Authenticity
- Jenelle Davis | Filling the Void: Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art and the Struggle for Recovery in Post-Conflict Sarajevo
- Joanna Ebenstein | Notes on a Speculative Recreation of the Lost Cabinet of Dutch Anatomist, Moralist, Museologist and Artist Frederik Ruysch
- Allison Loader | A Short Stop before the Exhibitionary Complex
PUB SESSIONS @ American Flatbread
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
- Gigi Naglak & Hannah Sisk | Peale’s Museum: An Interactive Curatorial Experiment
- Laurel Waycott | The New York Aquarium: A Case Study
- Kate Duffy | Mossoleum: On the Collection of Dried Seaweeds
- Lukas Rieppel | Albert Koch’s Hydrarchos Craze
FRIDAY
LIGHT BREAKFAST @ John Carter Brown Library
Select pastries & fruit provided
8:30 – 9:00 A.M.
KEYNOTE @ John Carter Brown Library
9:00 – 10:00 A.M.
- Rosamond Purcell
SESSION 3: PRIVATE/PUBLIC MUSEUMS @ Metcalf Auditorium VIDEO
10:15 – 11:45 A.M.
- Andrew McClellan | Death and the Museum: The Case of Edmond de Goncourt
- Mary Terrall | Delusions of Permanence: The Life and Legacy of Réaumur’s Natural History Collections
- Courtney Fullilove | The Hair of Distinguished Persons in the Patent Office Building Museum
LUNCH & 2 SHOWS @ Metcalf Auditorium VIDEO
Sandwiches provided
12:00 – 1:30 P.M.
- (12:40- 1:00) Emily Avera & Bryan Markovitz | Reanimating Phenomenal Others: How to Bring Museum Artifacts Back to Life
- (1:10 – 1:30) Maia Wright & Kate Jarboe | The George W. Bush Library and Museum Museum
SESSION 4: LOST & FOUND IN THE MUSEUM @ Metcalf Auditorium VIDEO
1:30 – 3:15 P.M.
- Mirjam Brusius & Kavita Singh | A Philosophy of Deep Storage
- Sean Silver | Thinking through Lost Property
- Amy Kohout | More than Birds: Collection Narratives and Cultural History at NMNH
- Denise Markonish | The Imaginary Museums of Mark Dion
COFFEE BREAK
3:15 – 3:30 P.M.
SESSION 5: USING COLLECTIONS @ Metcalf Auditorium VIDEO
3:30 – 5:15 P.M.
- Ethan Lasser | From the Philosophy Chamber: Harvard’s Lost Collection, 1766-1831
- Judy Gradwohl | Intentional Impermanence: Building a National Teaching Collection
- Maria Zytaruk | “Overdue Notice: Please Bring Back the Mummy’s Hand”: America’s First Circulating Museum
- Victoria Cain | The Weight of the Image: Lantern Slides, Education and the American Museum
CLOSING PERFORMANCE @ RISD Nature Lab
6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
- The Jenks Society
- Hollis Mickey
