*Touch and the Value of Object Handling Workshop 6:*
*End of project conference: Touch and the value of object handling.*
10am-4pm. Friday 4 May 2007
University College London
Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building
Dear Colleage,
UCL Museums & Collections warmly invite you to the final workshop in
this series exploring touch and object handling in the context of
museums. The series is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council. Please distribute these details as widely as possible. All are
welcome.
To book a place and/or for further information contact Devorah Romanek
on email:
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This programme is generously funded by the AHRC Research Workshops scheme.
Programme:
* 10am 10:30am /Registration and Tea/Coffee. UCL, Anatomy Gavin de
Beer Lecture theatre, Anatomy Building.
* 10:30 10:45am Introduction and Welcome: Dr Helen Chatterjee, Deputy
Director, UCL Museums & Collections and AHRC Touch Workshop leader. UCL,
JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building.
* 10:45 11:20 Professor Alan Wing, Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre,
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham An overview on developing touch research
* 11:20 12:00 Bernadette Lynch, Head of Public Programmes and Academic
Development at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester. 'The amenable object': working with diaspora communities through a
psychoanalysis of touch.
* 12:00 1:15 pm /Lunch
* 1:15 2:00 and 2:15 - 3:00 Concurrent discussion sessions. Cruciform
bldg. rooms: B.01, B.09, Foyer Seminar room 2, Foyer Seminar room 3.
Facilitated by:
* Dr. Fiona Candlin, The School of Continuing Education Birkbeck,
University of London
* Dr. David Prytherch, Research Fellow in Haptics & Computer Interfaces
for Craft, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, University of Central
England
* Jane Samuels, Access Manager, Department of Learning & Information,
The British Museum
* Dr Helen Chatterjee, Deputy Director, UCL Museums & Collections and
AHRC Touch Workshop leader; and Devorah Romanek, UCL Anthropology PhD,
and AHRC Touch Workshop project assistant.
* 3:00pm 3:20pm /Tea/Coffee. UCL, Anatomy Gavin de Beer Lecture
Theatre, Anatomy Building.
* 3:20pm 4pm Plenary address and conclusion, Bernadette Lynch. UCL, JZ
Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building.
Please bring any thoughts, questions and ideas you have to contribute to
the discussion sessions.
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Sam Washington
Digital Resources Manager
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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