> Dear Friends,
> 
> Registration and other program materials are now available for "The
> Scientific Instrument Collections in the University" (SICU) Conference, to
> be held 24-27 June, 2004 at Dartmouth College. We hope you will visit our
> updated website and participate in the symposium. See below for the program
> of speakers and workshops.
> 
> Our web address is:
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sicu
> 
> Click on Conference Registration to download a registration form, to be
> completed and returned by mail. Note that the conference fee is reduced for
> those who register before 15 May 2004.
> 
> We look forward to meeting you in June.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> The SICU Organizing Committee (Richard Kremer, Frank Manasek, Dave
> Pantalony, Sara Schechner)
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Scientific Instrument Collections in the University
> 
> An International Conference at Dartmouth College, 24-27 June 2004
> 
> Co-sponsored by Dartmouth College and the Scientific Instrument Commission
> of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
> Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Dickey Center for
> International Understanding at Dartmouth College
> ________________________
> Program
> [NC=Not confirmed at this time]
> 
> Thursday, 24 June
> 
> 12:00 Registration & Reception in exhibition space
> 
> 18:30 Keynote address
>          Paolo Brenni
>          Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, and President,
> SIC
>          "Sleeping beauties: Historical collections of scientific
> instruments at European universities"
> 
> 20:00 Cocktails and opening banquet
> 
> Friday, 25 June
> 
> 9:00 Session 1: The political economy of university collections (workshop)
> 
>          * David Pantalony, Dibner Institute, MIT, Chair
>          * James C. Day, Assoc. Professor of Physics, Transylvania University
>          * Ron Leibowitz(NC), Provost, Middlebury College
>          * Robin McElheny, Archivist, Harvard University
> 
>          Topics to include:
>          --recognizing the value of university collections, defining
> collection mandates
>          --promoting collections at departmental, university, and wider levels
>          --relationships with other university collections, i.e., museums,
> libraries, archives
>          --uses for collections and the fostering of traditional and new
> clienteles
> 
> 
> 10:15 Coffee break
> 
> 10:45 Session 2a: University collections and university histories (papers)
> 
>          * Chair TBA
>          * Julian Holland, University of Sydney, "University Collections of
> Scientific Instruments: An Australian Perspective"
>          * Mott Linn, Clark University, "Photographic record of Clark's new
> laboratories in 1892"
>          * Dalibor Voboril and Petr Kveton (NC), Academy of Sciences of the
> Czech Republic,
>                  "Collections of historical psychological devices in Czech
> universities"
> 
> 10:45 Session 2b: Using university collections for research (papers)
> 
>           * Jose Bertomeu, University of Valencia, Chair
>           * Peggy Kidwell, Smithsonian Institution, "The slide rule enters
> the classroom in the USA: A story from collections"
>           * William Fickinger, Case Western Reserve University, and Peter
> Hoejke, Baldwin-Wallace College, "Dayton C. Miller's phonodiek"
>           * Roland Wittje, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
> "Playing on scientific instruments:
>                  Acoustics and the preservation and use of scientific
> instruments in research and public presentation"
>          * V. Frederick Rickey, U. S. Military Academy, "The Olivier models
> at Union College and West Point
> 
> 12:00 Catered buffet lunch and poster session
> 
>          * Anna Giatti, Fondazione scienza e tecnica, Florence: "The
> heritage of the Instituto Tecnico Toscao of Florence"
> 
> 14:00 Session 3: Collection management (workshop)> 
> 
>          * Sara Schechner, Harvard University, Chair
>          * Kellen Haak, Registrar, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
>          * Sofia Talas, Curator, Museo di Storia della Fisica, University
> of Padua
>          * James M. Edmonson, Chief Curator, Dittrick Medical History
> Center, Case Western Reserve University
> 
>          Topics to include:
>          --organizing and cataloguing collections
>          --storage, proper handling, conservation, security
>          --environmental safety
>          --creating policies for ongoing acquisition and de-accession
>          --dealing with large objects
> 
> 15:15 Coffee break
> 
> 15:45 Session 4a: Can university collections survive their founders? (papers)
> 
>          * Deborah Douglas, MIT Museum (Chair)
>          * M. Eugene Rudd, University of Nebraska, "The making of a
> collection: Historic scientific instruments
>                  at the University of Nebraska"
>          * Norman Heckenberg, University of Queensland, "Avoiding infant
> mortality"
>          * Joseph Bellina, St. Mary's College, "Does St. Mary's collection
> have a future?"
>          * Sebastian Soubiran, University of Strasbourg, "Getting started:
> Preservation and valorisation of scientific
>                  instruments at the University of Strasbourg"
> 
> 15:45 Session 4b: Curatorial challenges (papers)
> 
>          * Ben Weiss, Dibner Institute for the History of Science (Chair)
>          * Aysen Savan, Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
> "Cataloguing and classifying: From a gyroscope to a mission statement"
>          * David Brock and Robert Lukens, Chemical Heritage Foundation,
> "Chemistry's revolutionary tools: Collecting and
>                  interpreting post-war chemical instrumentation"
>          * Jim Moss, Horological conservator, "The mercurial relationship
> between David and Goliath"
>          * Yaakov Zik, University of Haifa, "Instrument: An interaface
> among theory, symbolic representation and the real world"
> 
> 18:00 Dinner, organized by participants in area restaurants
> 
> 20:00 Session 5: Digital projects and exhibitions (workshop)
> 
>          * Stephen Johnston, Curator, Museum of the History of Science,
> Oxford University, Chair
>          * Francis Moon (NC), Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace
> Engineering, Cornell
>          * John M. Saylor, Director, National Science Digital Library, Cornell
>          * Kizer Walker, Digital Projects Librarian, Cornell Science Libraries
>          * Steve Turner, Specialist in the Physical Sciences Collection,
> National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
> 
> Saturday, 26 June
> 
> 9:00 Session 6: Teaching with university collections (workshop)
> 
>          * Jean Francois-Gauvin, Harvard, Chair
>          * David Hammond, Robert Arns, Thomas Warnock, Department of
> Physics, University of Vermont
>          * Sara Schechner, Curator, Collection of Historical Scientific
> Instruments, Harvard
>          * Daina Taimina, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University
> Libraries
>          * Liba Taub, Director & Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of
> Science, University of Cambridge
> 
> 10:15 Coffee break
> 
> 10:45 Session 7a: Introducing hidden collections (papers)
> 
>          * Elizabeth Hanson, Rockefeller University (Chair)
>          * Jose Bertomeu, University of Valencia, "Scientific Instruments
> at Secondary Schools in Spain, 1845-1939"
>           Thomas B. Greenslade, Keynon College, "Hidden collections"
>          * Anne McMahon, Santa Clara University, and Dana Freiburger,
> University of Wisconsin,
>                  "The Santa Clara Scientific Instrument Collection"
>          * Jean-Francois Loude (NC), University of Lausanne, "Historic
> physics instruments at the University of Lausanne"
>          * Frank Winkler and Matthew W. Motley, Middlebury College,
> "Scientific instruments at Middlebury College"> 
> 
> 10:45 Session 7b: Introducing hidden collections (papers)
> 
>          * Jean Barrette, McGill University (Chair)
>          * Richard Paselk, Humboldt State University, "From virtual to
> reality: The making of the Robert A. Paselk
>                  Scientific Instrument Museum"
>          * Bernard Ziomkiewicz, Queen's University, "The physics collection
> of Queen's University"
>          * Michael Littman (NC), Princeton, "Joseph Henry's artifacts at
> Princeton"
>          * Andrew Bell, private scholar, "Skeletons in the closet: Optical
> artifacts from the Dartmouth King Collection"
> 
> 12:00 Lunch in local restaurants
> 
> 14:00 Session 8: Whither university astronomical observatories? (workshop)
> 
>          * Owen Gingerich, Harvard (chair)
>          * John Briggs, National Solar Observatory and Yerkes Observatory
>          * Jerome Lamy (NC), Centre Alexandre Koyre, EHESS, Paris
>          * David Targan, Director, Ladd Observatory, Brown Unversity
>          * Colleen Gino, Executive Director, Dudley Observatory
> 
> 15:15 Coffee break
> 
> 19:00 Cocktails and closing banquet, with music of New England (Montshire
> Museum of Science)
> 
> Sunday, 27 June
> 
> 9-17 Optional excursion to the American Precision Museum, Windsor, Vt, and
> to the
>          Russell Porter Museum and turret telescopes in Springfield, VT,
> with lunch at the Hartness House
> 
> In the morning we will visit the American Precision Museum in Windsor, VT
> where we can inspect two floors of precision machines. We hope to make
> special arrangement to visit the stores, which are filled with additional
> machines. Of special interest are several ruling engines.
> 
> We will then travel to Springfield, VT and lunch at the Hartness House. An
> underground tunnel connects the Hartness House with the Hartness Turret
> Telescope (refractor) which will be open for our inspection.  We are making
> arrangements to visit the restored Porter Turret Telescope (reflector)
> located on a nearby hill. The building is large enough to accommodate
> several people and the instrument is used in the daytime to project the
> solar image.
> 
>