Collections at the Core: curation, care, and controversy
Saturday April 30, 2005
Hosted by
The Indiana University Art Museum
Bloomington, IN
Conference Agenda
8:00 a.m.
Get on Bus at Indianapolis Convention Center
9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast at the IU Art Museum
9:30 am
Welcoming presentations
Lisa Hanover, President, ACUMG
Ken Gros Louis, Chancellor, Indiana University
Adelheide Gealt, Director, Indiana University Art Museum
Stefan Sommer, Vice President, ACUMG
9:45 am
Collections and Scholarly Publications
Hugh Genoways – Editor, COLLECTIONS: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals Chair, Museum Studies Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
10:30 am
Standards of Stewardship
Elizabeth Merritt – Director, Museum Advancement & Excellence, AAM
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Federal Funding: “Backing the Basics: Advancing the Cause of Preservation”
Adelheide Gealt – Director, IU Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
12:15 pm
Lunch
Session 1
1:15 pm
Museum Collections and Potential Collections in War and Occupation: the Iraq Disaster
McGuire Gibson, Professor of Archaeology, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2:00 pm
Preservation Perspectives: Collections Care and Use in the Academic Environment
Nicky Ladkin, Senior Research Associate, Museum of Texas Tech University
2:45 pm
Digital Behavior in the American Museum: Diverse Approaches to Collections Access
Richard Urban, Assoc. Director, Collaborative Digitization Project, Denver University
2:45 pm
Digital Behavior in the American Museum: Diverse Approaches to Collections Access
Richard Urban, Assoc. Director, Collaborative Digitization Project, Denver University
Session 2
1:15 pm
Sex and Sensibility: Panel Discussion on Controversial Collections
Catherine Johnson Roehr – Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
Judith Kirk, Asst. Director, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University
Ellen Sieber, Curator, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University
Liana Zhou, Head of the Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University
2:00 pm
Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Available to the first 40 registrants!
(please mark your interest under “special considerations” on your registration form)
Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
2:45 pm
Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Available to the first 40 registrants!
(please mark your interest under “special considerations” on your registration form)
Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
What is the Object of Our Profession? panel and community discussion:
Adelheide Gealt, Hugh Genoways, McGuire Gibson, Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Judith Kirk, Nicky Ladkin, Ellen Sieber, Elizabeth Merritt, Richard Urban, Liana Zhou
4:30 pm
Reception at the Indiana University Art Museum
5:30 pm
Buses return to Conference Center – Farewell ’till next year!
