Dear Colleague,
UCL Museums & Collections warmly invite you to the fifth 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 feel free to distribute these details as widely as possible. All
are welcome.
*Workshop 5: Knowledge transfer in object handling:
with specific reference to disadvantaged or underrepresented groups.
Friday 2 March 2007, The British Museum, Stephenson Lecture Theatre,
10 am 4 pm
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*/Programme:
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*10am 10.30am /Registration and Tea/Coffee./* The British Museum
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10.30 10.45am Introduction and Welcome*: Dr Helen Chatterjee, Deputy
Director, UCL Museums & Collections and AHRC Touch Workshop leader.
*10.45 11.25 Caro Howell, * Head of Education & Public Events,
Whitechapel Art Gallery
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11.25 12.05 Robert Zimmer, *co-Director, Digital Studios and Head of
the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
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*12.05 1.30 pm /Lunch
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1:30 2:10 Marcus Weisen, *Policy Adviser: Inclusion and Communities,
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
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2.10 2:50 pm Barry Ginley,* Disability and Access, the Victoria &
Albert Museum
*2.50pm 3.20pm /Tea/Coffee./* The British Museum
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3.20pm 4pm Jane Samuels*, Access Manager, Department of Learning &
Information, The British Museum
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
<http://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:
End of project conference: Touch and the value of object handling
Friday 4 May 2007, University College London, Anatomy JZ Young Lecture
Theatre.
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Sam Washington
Head of Digital Resources
UCL Museums & Collections
c/o The Petrie Museum
University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
Tel: 0207 679 2354 | x32354
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