COLLECTIONS IN USE
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s College London (July 6 2015)
9:30-9.50
Registration and Coffee
9:50-10.00
Welcome (Alice Marples and Victoria Pickering)
10.00-11.15
Managing Collections: Collecting, Cataloguing, Curating
Chair: Felicity Roberts (King's College London/British Museum)
Bert van de Roemer (Universiteit van Amsterdam) – The Act of Assembling Objects
Fabio Morabito (King's College London) - In Search of His Own Signature: Luigi
Cherubini’s Collection of Autographs By Other Composers
Mia Jackson (Queen Mary) - The Collections of the Illustres: Collections in Use in
the Louvre
11.15-11.45
Coffee Break
11.45-13.00
Experimental Collections: In, With, For
Chair: Alice Marples (King's College London/British Library)
Sally Osborn (University of Roehampton) – 'To be placed with experements':
Developing Knowledge Through the Collection and Use of Medical Recipes
Helen McCormack (Glasgow School of Art) – Superb Cabinets or Splendid
Anachronisms? 'Experimental' Collecting in Early Scientific Interiors
Reese Arnott-Davies (Birkbeck) – 'Some Dark Emblem': Visibility, Obscurity and
Exhibiting Egypt at Montagu House
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.15
Disseminating Collections: Publication and Practice
Chair: Victoria Pickering (Queen Mary/Natural History Museum)
Barbara Furlotti - Through Drawings and By Word of Mouth: Circulating
Information on Antiquarian Collections in the Early Modern Period
Isabelle Charmantier (The Linnean Society) – The Linnaean Workshop: Practices of
Disseminating Botanical Knowledge
Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen) – 'Academies of Natural History':
Continental Utilisation of Collections in Eighteenth-Century Britain
15.15-3.45
Coffee Break
15.45-17.00
Researching Collections: Current Methods
Chair: Martha Fleming (Reconstructing Sloane Project)
Jed Foland (Bodleian Library) - Museums as Laboratories: Reenacting Scientific
Discovery Using the Microscope
Clare Hickman (King’s College London) - Reconsidering the Role of Botanic
Gardens
Alexandra Cook (University of Hong Kong) - Looking at the Herbarium as a Robust
Scientific Object
17.00-18.00
Roundtable
Chair: Elizabeth Eger (King's College London)
Anne Goldgar (King's College London)
Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge)
Mark Carnall (Grant Museum of Zoology)
Lisa Skogh (Victoria and Albert Museum)
18.00-19.00
Wine Reception
19.30+
Dinner
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