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UZH for Researchers 15th Annual Conference for University Collections 2024

Program

The conference is over. See you next time in Berlin.

13.06.2024

ab 9:30                         

Registration and Coffee in the Atrium

Main entrance University Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich (PNG, 79 KB)

11:00-11:45

Welcome from the Vice Rector for Research Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark (UZH), Vice President Infrastructure Prof. Dr. Ueli Weidmann (ETH), Prof. Dr. Volker Wissemann Society for University Collections

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11:45-12:15

Challenge of heterogeneous and hidden museum collections

Keynote Dr. Peter Wandeler (Director of the Natural History Museum Fribourg)

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12:15-12:30 Break
 

Session 1 - Collections in the Interplay of Research, Finance, and Politics

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12:30-13:00

Give me some of the cake! On the administrative and regulatory situation of university museums and collections using the example of Baden-Württemberg.

Dr. Michael La Corte, Curation and Communication at the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

13:00-13:30

Do everything and leave nothing? - The Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich between resource scarcity and increasing demands.

Martin Bürg, lic. phil., Curator of the Archaeological Collection, University of Zurich.

13:30-14:00

From analog to digital and back - The Medical Collection of Inselspital Bern in the interplay of university, hospital, museum standards, and the public.

Dr. phil. Manuel Kaiser, Collection Manager of the Medical Collection Inselspital Bern / Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Bern.

14:00-14:30

Lunch

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  Collection visits
14:15-18:30 Nature in the Collection Center
14:15-18:30 Technical cultural heritage at the Collection Center
14:30-17:30 Nature at the University Centre
14:30-15:45 Thomas Mann-Archiv
14:30-17:00 Old prints and Graphics
14:30-17:00 Ethnographic Museum
14:30-15:45 Moulagenmuseum
14:30-16:00 Art in architecture with working group meeting
14:30-16:45 Anatomy an Veterinary medicine
14:30-17:00 Herbarium an Botanical Garden
14:30-17:15 History of Architecture an material hub
16:00-17:00 Archaeological Collection
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Welcome aperitif

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14.06.2024

8:45-9:30 Coffee and Gipfeli
 

Session 2 - Collections revisited

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9:30-10:00

What Power Does Language – A student project on the topic of sensitive language in the museum

Diellëza Hyseni B.A., Research Assistant at the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT in the field of "Collection and Provenance Research," in the project "Precarious Provenance," Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Simon Zauner B.A., Research Assistant at the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT – Press and Public Relations and coordination of the Master's profile line "Museum & Collections," Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

100:00-10:30

Exciting – Engaging – Current – Creative?! Research and Teaching with the Collection of Textile Everyday Culture (STAK)

Dr. Klara von Lindern, Curator of the Collection of Textile Everyday Culture, University of Oldenburg

10:30-11:00

Collecting Passion "Revisited": On the Origins of the Medical Collection of the University of Zurich

Dr. Theresa Bayer, Research Assistant at the Medical Collection, University of Zurich.

Dr. Sophie Ledebur, Deputy Head of Medical Collection, University of Zurich

11:00-11:30

Back to the Future?!

Dr. Anna-Maria Brandstetter, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

 

Session 3 - Collections as Research Infrastructures

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9:30-10:00

The anthropological collections at the University of Geneva: towards a new deontology

Dr. Jocelyne Desideri, Scientific assistant/lecturer at the Archaeology of Africa & Anthropology Laboratory (ARCAN), University of Geneva

Dr. Anne Mayor, director of the laboratory ARCAN (ARChaeology of Africa and ANthropology), University of Geneva

10:00-10:30

Natural history collections for a better understanding of anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity

Dr. Alessia Guggisberg, Curator of vascular plants at the United Herbaria Zurich Z+ZT, ETH Zurich

Dr. Martin C. Fischer, Senior Assistant at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

10:30-11:00

University Collection Data in the Public Domain: Strategic Potentials of Openness in the Digital Realm.

Karsten Heck, advisor for Collection Management, Central Custody, Georg-August University Göttingen

11:00-11:30

On the (ephemeral) Facticity of University Collections in the Context of Artistic-Collaborative Research

Gwendolin Kremer, Research Assistant in the Art Holdings of the Custody of TU Dresden (TUD), Curatorial Director of the Gallery of the Custody in the Görges Building, Curator of the Schaufler Residency at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

11:45-12:15

Poster presentations

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12:15-13:30

Lunch

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13:00-13:15

Group photo

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13:15-14:45

General meeting of the Society for University Collections

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  Alternative program: city tour
13:15-14:45 Zurich Old Town on Foot (in German)
13:30-14:45

Guided Tour of the Exhibition "Biodiversity: Vulnerable Diversity," ETH

13:30-14:45

City Tour "Züri Colonial"

14:45-15:15

Coffee break

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15:15-17:15 Workshops and AG meetings
 

On the Path to Decolonizing Collections and Collection Work?

Gesa Grimme, Coordinator for Scientific University Collections in Germany

Roberta Spano, Staff Member of the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Materials at the ETH Library, Co-Leader of the Working Group on Decolonization of Collections and Archives, ETH Zurich

Stephanie Willi, Staff Member of the University Archives at ETH Zurich, Co-Leader of the Working Group on Decolonization, ETH Zurich

KOL-F-103

 

New Technology, New Data? "Artificial Intelligence" and University Collections

Michael Gasser, Head of Collections and Archives at the ETH Library, ETH Zurich

Christiane Sibille, Staff Member of Collections and Archives at the ETH Library, ETH Zurich

KO2-F-153

 

How Much 3D Do I Need?

Julian Cremerius, Research Assistant at the Chair of Graphical Data Processing, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Johannes Schäffer, Research Assistant at the Coordination Office for Scientific University Collections in Germany, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Co-Project Leader of the Collaborative Project SODa for the establishment of a Data Competence Center for Scientific University Collections

ETH HG-F-33.3

 

How to 3D Scan Insect Specimens and Create Striking 3D Models

Christian Günther Johannes Felsner, Staff Member at the Chair of Bio-communication and Ecology, ETH Zurich

KO2-F-172

 

Tips and Tricks on the Topic of Guided Tours

Julien Reimer, Staff Member at Campus Experience, ETH Zurich

Sonia Fuentes, Staff Member at Campus Experience, ETH Zurich

ETH HG-E-42

 

HOW TO PROVENANCE RESEARCH? The First Steps in uncomfortable questions…

Prof. Dr. Ernst Seidl, Director of the Central Institution Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

ETH HG-F-33.2

 

Working Group Collection Preservation

Kirsten Vincenz, Director of the Art Collection of the TU Dresden
Regina Klee, Restorer of the Art Collection of the TU Dresden
Dr. Oliver Zauzig, Central Collection Coordinator of the Humboldt University of Berlin

KO2-F-155

 

Roundtable: Human remains and Restitution

Dr.in rer. med. Karin König, Research Associate and Collection Management at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences

Dr. Holger Stoecker, Research associate Department of Medieval and Modern History University of Göttingen

Claudio Simoni, Natural History Museum, Basel

Prof. Dr. Mareile Flitsch, Director Ethnographical Museum, University of Zurich

Prof. Dr. Michael Krützen, Director Institut of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich

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17:30-18:15

Report from the working groups and workshops

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18:30-19:15

Cultural heritage in the tension field between material memory and social relevance

Lecture from Dr. Denise Tonella (Director Swiss National Museum)

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Dinner in the lecturers' foyer at ETH

HG K 30.5

 

15.06.2024

09:00-09:45

Impact, Sustainable or Not?! Evaluating University Collections

Contribution from the Coordination Office for University Collections

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Session 4 - Collections postcolonial

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9:45-10:15

Decolonizing University Collections – in Theory and Practice

Agnese Quadri, Staff Member in the Collections and Archives Section of the ETH Library, ETH Zurich

Roberta Spano, Staff Member of the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Materials at the ETH Library, Co-Leader of the Working Group on Decolonization, ETH Zurich

10:15-10:45

"Object Histories" – an exhibition project contributing to the political and societal debate on provenance research

Alma Hannig, Director of the University Museum and Collection Coordinator, University of Bonn

Elizabeth Stauss, Project Coordinator, Open Museum for Open Science and Open Society, University of Bonn

10:45-11:30

 coffee break

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11:30-12:00

"Collections are like a wound" – Action and discourse spaces of ethnographic collections between colonial heritage and postcolonial demands, using the example of the Ethnographic Collection of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology

Dr. Igor Eberhard, Head of the Ethnographic Collection of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Scientific Director of the Ethnographic Data Archive, University of Vienna

12:00-12:30

How to Decolonize Ethnological Collections: James Cook, Contact Zones, and a Cosmopolitan Maori Indigeneity

Dr. Markus Schleiter, Curator Ethnological Collection, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

12:30-13:00

Review 2024

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13:00-13:15

Outlook to the Conference 2025 and Farewell

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