Tagungsprogramm

9:00 Registration & Get Together

 

10:00 Opening

 

10:45 Universities as a Place of Hierarchy and Power

Marlen Mouliou
Re-framing Collections of Portraits in the Academic Context

Frederieke van Wijk
Blackface in Theater, Curating Racism at the Allard Pierson

Eilidh Lawrence
Development and Re-development: Finding Relevance in University Collections Today

Janne Arp-Neumann
“Symbols of the Feminine” as Agents of Diversity

Luciana Fontana, Fábio Monteiro, Susana Lobo, Pedro Casaleiro
Objects of Power: Preserving a Collection of Furniture Created during the Dictatorship for the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra

12:00 Lunch

 

13:30 Change and Engage!

Liselotte Neervoort, Charlotte Van Wijk
Shaky Calculations: Engaging Presentations of Technical Collections

Paul Lambers, Reina de Raat, Merlijn Barkema
The New University Museum Utrecht: How to Engage a Young Public with Academic Heritage, History of Science and Scientific Research

Marianna Raisma
How to Create an Influential University Museum?

Eimantas Končius
Museums and Global Challenges: Education, Inspiration, Action

Anne Vaalund, Bjørn Johansen
Academic Heritage or Elements of Interior Design?

Hubert Kowalski
Between an Incredible Opportunity and a Powerful Limitation. A Huge Chopin’s Contradiction

Roland Wittje, Ida Margrethe Klingvall
Managing the Heritage of Contemporary Big Science at Universities: Why, how, and for whom?

Maciej Kluza, Małgorzata Taborska
Use of the Scientific Instruments Collection for Science Communication. Case Study of the Jagiellonian University Museum

Monika Reich, Robert Fischer, Brian Eschrich
Bridging Past and Present: Interactive Engagement with Historical Computing Technology

15:00 Coffee Break & Speed Dating

 

16:00 Guided Tours (please register for one of the 6 offered guided tours via the registration tool):

            Tour 1: Campus – Historical-physical collection - Criminological collection - Observatory
            Tour 2: Criminological collection - University History - Historical-physical collection
            Tour 3: Franz-Nabl-Institut (literature archive) - Botanical Garden - Criminological Collection
            Tour 4: University Archive - University Library - Rare Book Collection
            Tour 5: University Library - Rare Book Collection - Institute of Archaeology - Institute of Antiquity
            Tour 6: Institute of Archaeology - Institute of Antiquity - University Archive

19:00 Evening event - Opening of the “Experiencing Democracy” exhibition - University Museums, University of Graz

9:30 Curating Ideas

Elena Maria Rita Rizzi
The Outdoor and Indoor Musealization of Scientific Heritage at the University of Pavia in 19th and 20th Century Italy. Historical Continuities/Discontinuities and Their Contemporary Implications

Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk
Dispersed Collections of the University of Wrocław

Robert Čupaila
Creation of the Observatory’s new Identity in Relation to Shifting Political Landscapes in Lithuania

Greta Kačergiūtė
Monumental Art at Vilnius University: Between Past Narratives and Today’s Approaches

Ida Margrethe Klingvall, Roland Wittje
The Atom in the Universe – Arts and Science in the Interwar Years

10:30 Coffee Break

 

11:00 Poster Madness & Poster Session

Annemieke Hoogenboom
Dispose or Keep: The Damaged Collection of Lantern Slides of Utrecht Art Historians

Maksymilian Dzikowski, Kamila Latocha
Kulice Manor House. 30 Years of Public Science

Ioannis Brigkos, Vasilios Stefanidis
Documenting the Legacy, Preserving the Past and Confronting the Future: The Archive of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna

Margret Hamilton
The Geological Archive at the University of Vienna as a Foundation for Future Research

Hubert Kowalski, Marta Piszczatowska
Academic Tourist Routes in Poland. Building Awareness for the Future of Securing University Collections

Nathalie Nyst
Brainstorming or Much ado About Nothing? The Future of the Scientific Heritage of the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Petra Lukeneder
Out of the Dark - Unleashing Frozen Histories in Natural Science Specimens

Karolina Wawok, Katarzyna Zięba
Organizing Exhibitions as a Way to Adapt University Museums to Current Times and Rapid World Changes

Fábio Monteiro, Pedro Casaleiro
Preserving Time: a Museological Insight Into the Time Service Collection of the University of Coimbra

Karsten Heck
Talking Knowledge

María Dolores Ruiz de Lacanal
The Museum the History of Conservation Cultural Heritage

Anna Zubeck
Documenting and Preserving Heritage in Natural History Collections

Bartek Kajdas, Paweł Hałat
Mineralogical Collection for Non-Mineralogists - Exhibition “The Treasury of the Earth” in the Nature Education Centre of Jagiellonian University

Marek Bukowski
The Museum of Medical University and Its 80th Anniversary

Elena Corradini, Marcello Tarantino
Tangible and Intangible Heritage for the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia History

 

Alena Khudnitskaya
Fostering Interaction with Collections Using Free Digital Tools: Creating Educational Content

Jörg Zaun, Regina Klee
Digital Access to Color Sample Books

Else Schlegel
Curating Photography between Past, Present and Future: The Hermann Krone Collection at TUD Dresden University of Technology

António Baía Reis, E. Sterp Moga, C. López San Segundo, F.J. Frutos Esteban, L. Delgado Sánchez, D. Martín Rubio
Flower in a Garden of Dreams - the University of Salamanca's Collection of Artificial Models for Botany Education: an Interdisciplinary Project and Exhibition Advancing Science Communication and University Heritage Through Immersive Media Arts

Michael Müller
From Burden to Lever: How Digitization Can Strengthen University Collections

Johannes Schäffer
Surveying the (Research) Data Management Landscape in German University Collections

13:00 Lunch

 

14:15 Group Photo

 

14:30 Working Group Sessions

 

17:00 Report from the Pre-Conference Workshop

 

17:15 Colonial Contexts

Kristel Wautier, Lieselot Cornelis, Els Baetens, Hugo DeBlock
Raising Awareness on the Story Beyond the Surface – a Case Study on the Significance Assessment of Radioactive Minerals

Mariana Brum, Pedro Casaleiro
Mapping Indigenous Presence in Colonial Cartography: Curatorial Reinterpretation and Conservation Practices of 18th-century Brazilian Maps at the University of Coimbra

Marino Ficco, Elisa de Jacquier
The Musée L and the Challenge of Provenance Research

19:30 Evening Event - more information coming soon

9:30 Keynote

 

10:30 Coffee Break

 

11:00 AGM

 

13:00 Lunch

 

14:30 The Body Collected

Johanna Lessing
Encountering Human Specimens

Lisette Jong, Paul Wolff Mitchell
Entangled Histories: Science and Colonialism in the Collection of Petrus Camper

Vanessa Hava Schulmann
"Meeting Them" - an Unconventional Project Report

15:30 Coffee Break

 

16:00 Summary and Perspectives: Curating University Collections Today for Tomorrow!

 

18:30 Evening event - more information coming soon

Sunday 22nd June 2025 (please register via registration tool)
 

Historical city walk (by Graz Tourismus): 16:00-18:00 (12,00 Euro per person)
 

Thursday 26th June 2025 (please register via registration tool)

Graz postcolonial - historical city tour: 10:00-11:30 (by Dr. Markus Wurzer, meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/goQ7H9QqKYFGoYS77) 

Guided tour Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Museum (Thal bei Graz, 5,90 Euro to be paid directy in the museum: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DSn1FBxxMZ5WUSfLA]

Visit the Universalmuseum Joanneum exhibitions in Graz for free entry to all conference participants

 

 

Abstract of WG

Introduction

On Tuesday April 22th 2025, the Teaching with Objects website was launched. This website is the result of a recent Erasmus Plus project that originated from the Universeum Network. It is a platform dedicated to object-based teaching and learning with objects from (university) museums and collections. We aim to establish an active network and community of practice, and we hope you join us in this endeavour! 

On https://teachingwithobjects.org/, you find a wide range of articles and resources: reflections on learning and teaching practices, practical guides, and reviews on various aspects of teaching with objects, as well as a "directory" of practitioners to connect with.

Help us build a community and make the website better

Now that the website is up and running, we want to invite you, curators, teaching practitioners, students and other users to critically review our work. What are your thoughts about the platform, and more importantly, about the network and community? How can we improve the website, collect new contributions and expand the network? 

The workshop will be set up as a moderated brainstorm, with room for ideas and reflections on the platform, and on sharing methodologies, instruments and experiences with teaching with objects. 

Contact

Delphine Issenmann, delphine.issenmann(at)unistra.fr
Frank Meijer, f.t.meijer(at)academischerfgoed.nl

Abstract of Working Group