Cultural Encounters and Explorations:
Conservation’s ‘Catch-22’
AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme
What’s the Damage?
Physical encounters: increased benefit or increased risk?
Wednesday 23 September 2009, Main Lecture Theatre (G6),
UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9.00 – 10.00
Registration and Coffee
10.00 – 10.20
Elizabeth Pye, UCL Institute of Archaeology.
The challenge of conservation’s ‘Catch 22’.
10.20 – 10.40
Susan Pearce, University of Leicester.
It's all Greek to me! Reflections on some issues relating to
classical marbles.
10.40 – 11.00
Ben Cowell, The National Trust.
Creating the right atmosphere: for people and for collections.
11.00 – 11.30
coffee
11.30 – 11.50
Julia Shelley and Stuart Kennedy, Reading
Museum.
11.50 – 12.10
Paul Sullivan, Bristol Museums.
12.10 – 12.30
12.30 – 1.10
Julie Dawson and Helen Strudwick,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Panel: Chiara Ambrosio, UCL Science and
Technology Studies. (Chair)
A right versus a right. Balancing two sections of the museum
code of ethics: a question of trust?
Feeling our way: towards a shared approach to object handling
in the Public Galleries.
A close-up look: ‘Meet the Antiquities’ in the Fitzwilliam Museum
How powerful are the benefits of access?
1.15 – 2.15
lunch
2.15 – 2.35
Dean Sully, UCL Institute of Archaeology.
The conservation object: linking past condition to present lives
2.35 – 2.55
Amber Xavier-Rowe, English Heritage.
Damage and how to manage it
2.55 – 3.15
David McPhail and Richard Chater, Imperial
College.
Measuring damage using state-of-the art analysis techniques.
3.15 – 3.35
Angela Geary, Northumbria University.
Do we know what we are missing? Exploring the real value and
potential of virtual touch in museum display
3.35 – 4.05
tea
4.05 – 4.45
Panel Discussion: Helen Wilkinson,
Museums Association. (Chair)
Jonathan Ashley Smith, Royal College of
Art.
4.45 – 5.15
5.30
How serious are the risks of damage?
Handling the future
Reception
Cultural Encounters and Explorations: Conservation’s ‘Catch-22’ is a research cluster of the Science and
Heritage Programme (http://www.heritagescience.ac.uk/) which is funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/).