Dear Colleague,
UCL Museums & Collections warmly invite you to the forth in a series of
workshops exploring touch and object handling in the context of museums.
This series is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Please
distribute these details as widely as possible. All are welcome.
Workshop 4: "Therapeutic approaches to touch: Object handling and hospital
patients"
Friday 2 February 2007, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
10 am - 4 pm
Speakers and programme:
10am - 10.30am Registration and Tea/Coffee.
10.30 - 10.45am Introduction and Welcome: Dr Helen Chatterjee, Deputy
Director, UCL Museums & Collections and AHRC Touch Workshop leader.
10.45 - 11.15am Dr Caroline Selai, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience,
University College London, Institute of Neurology
11.15 - 11.45 Dr Helen Chatterjee, Deputy Director, UCL Museums &
Collections and Guy Noble, Arts Curator, University College London Hospital
11.45 - 12.30pm Dr Anne Lanceley, Social and Behavioural Sciences Lead, UCL
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health
12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30pm - 2.10 pm Claire Jacques, Social Inclusion and Access Officer,
Lincolnshire Heritage Services
2.10 - 2.50 Jackie O'Sullivan, Nostaligia Room Project Manager, Newham
University Hospital NHS Trust
2.50pm - 3.20pm Tea/Coffee.
3.20pm - 4pm Dr Caroline Selai
Workshop round-up: Summary and next steps
To book a place and/or for further information contact Devorah Romanek on
email: [log in to unmask]
Visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/events
This workshop is FREE; Tea/Coffee will be provided.
This programme is generously funded by the AHRC Research Workshops scheme.
FUTURE WORKSHOPS IN THIS SERIES:
Knowledge transfer in object handling: with specific reference to
disadvantaged or underrepresented groups.
Friday 2 March 2007, British Museum.
End of project conference: Touch and the value of object handling
Friday 4 May 2007, University College London.
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