Join us for a rousting discussion of current collections standards and 
issues!

"COLLECTIONS AT THE CORE: CURATION, CARE, AND CONTROVERSY"

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 30th, 2005
leave from the Indianapolis Convention Center to Indiana University
Hosted by the Indiana University Art Museum

Conference Brochure and Registration form:
http://www.acumg.org/conference05.html


Presenter Include:
Hugh Genoways, Collections and Scholarly Publications
Elizabeth Smart, Standards of Stewardship
Adelheide Gealt, Federal Funding: "Backing the Basics: Advancing the 
Cause of Preservation”
McGuire Gibson, Museum Collections and Potential Collections in War and 
Occupation: the Iraq Disaster

Also: Sex and Sensibility: Panel Discussion on Controversial Collections
Special Panel Hosted by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, 
Gender, and Reproduction

Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Available to the first 40 registrants! (please mark your interest under 
"special considerations" on your registration form)



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ACUMG Conference 2005

Saturday, April 30th

Hosted by
The Indiana University Art Museum

8:00 a.m. Get on Bus at Indianapolis Convention Center

9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast at the IU Art Museum

9:30 a.m. Welcoming presentations

Lisa Hanover President, ACUMG
Ken Gros Louis Chancellor, Indiana University
Adelheide Gealt Director, Indiana University Art Museum
Stefan Sommer Vice President, ACUMG

9:45 am Collections and Scholarly Publications
Hugh Genoways - Editor, COLLECTIONS: A Journal for Museum and Archives 
Professionals
Chair, Museum Studies Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
10:30 am Standards of Stewardship
Elizabeth Merritt - Director, Museum Advancement & Excellence, AAM
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Federal Funding: "Backing the Basics: Advancing the Cause of 
Preservation”
Adelheide Gealt - Director, IU Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

12:15 pm Lunch

Session I
1:15 pm Museum Collections and Potential Collections in War and 
Occupation: the Iraq Disaster
McGuire Gibson, Professor of Archaeology, The Oriental Institute, 
University of Chicago

2:00 pm Preservation Perspectives: Collections Care and Use in the 
Academic Environment
Nicky Ladkin, Senior Research Associate, Museum of Texas Tech University
2:45 pm Digital Behavior in the American Museum : Diverse Approaches to 
Collections Access
Richard Urban, Assoc. Director, Collaborative Digitization Project, 
Denver University

Session II
1:15 pm Sex and Sensibility: Panel Discussion on Controversial Collections
Catherine Johnson Roehr - Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, 
The Kinsey Institute for
Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
Judith Kirk, Asst. Director, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana 
University
Ellen Sieber, Curator, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University
Liana Zhou, Head of the Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University
2:00 pm Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and 
Reproduction
Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The 
Kinsey Institute for
Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
2:45 pm Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and 
Reproduction
Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The 
Kinsey Institute for
Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
3:30 pm Break

3:45 pm What is the Object of Our Profession? panel and community 
discussion:
Adelheide Gealt, Hugh Genoways, McGuire Gibson, Catherine Johnson-Roehr, 
Judith Kirk, Nicky Ladkin, Ellen Sieber, Elizabeth Merritt,
Richard Urban, Liana Zhou

4:30 p.m. Reception at the Indiana University Art Museum
6:00 p.m. Buses return to Conference Center - Farewell 'till next year!

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Please direct any questions to:

Stefan Sommer, Conference Chair


Dr. Stefan Sommer, Vice President
Association of College and University Museums and Galleries 
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Museum of Northern Arizona <about:blank>

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