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Putting University Collections to Work in Research and Teaching
UMACs 9th International Conference
10th-13th September 2009, UC Berkeley, California
http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/meetings/umac/index.shtml
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/meetings/umac/program.shtml
REGISTER BEFORE AUGUST 10
Lower early registration price end on August 10. Take advantage of cheaper
fees. https://umac2009.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4m1/
BOOK NOW YOUR HOTEL ROOM
Some rooms are still available at each of the 3 Hotels on a first-come,
first-served basis at special rates for conference participants. Make your
reservation now, Hotel rooms near the campus fill up quickly!
PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES
http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/meetings/umac/participantbios.shtml
***POSTERS: we have room available for more poster presenters. To submit
your request, please contact Mark Meadow: [log in to unmask]
PARTICIPATION
We welcome your participation to the Conference. Please send this message
to all Faculty members, Graduate and Undergraduate Students in your
Department that might be interested in the Conference.
ON THE CONFERENCE
Centering on the unique role of museums and collections within
universities, UMAC invited UC Berkeley to host this Conference in
recognition of the work of the multi campus research project Microcosms:
Objects of Knowledge, co-directed by UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor
Rosemary Joyce, and UC Santa Barbara Art History Professors Mark Meadow
and Bruce Robertson.
Their joint research into the history of modern object collecting and its
critical role in the origins of university disciplines engaged each UC
campus in compiling a database of research collection that demonstrates
that the holdings of UC form a modern version of the sixteen-century ideal
of the universal collection.
The conference will bring central attention to the research accomplished
at Berkeley and other UC campuses by the group of faculty and graduate
students engaged in this research project, in a comparative international
framework that will facilitate a focus on the intellectual implications.
Among the presenters will be UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students
from various departments on campus, including History, Art History,
Classics, and Near Eastern Studies, all of which have students and faculty
engaged in related research.
UMAC
The University Museums and Collections International Committee is
dedicated to:
Clarify the role, requirements and relationships of university museums
and collections with the university and its communities
Assist the preservation of academic and cultural heritage
Promote university museums and collections within governments and their
agencies, institutes of learning, the broad museum sector, the
professions, business and the population generally
Provide advice and guidelines for those collections which are emerging,
isolated, deteriorating or otherwise in need
Facilitate international and regional collaboration to stimulate
networking, partnerships and research and to initiate exchanges of
artifacts, exhibitions, standards, practices and other information
Encourage staff in charge of university collections to participate in
museological training, mentorship and career development
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