Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am writing to formally announce a
Conference focused on University Museums:
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Putting University Collections to Work in Research and Teaching
UMACs 9th International Conference
10th-13th September 2009, UC Berkeley, California
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WEBSITE
http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/meetings/umac/index.shtml
REGISTRATION
https://umac2009.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4m1/
PARTICIPATION
We welcome your participation to the Conference! Any help you are able to
provide by raising the awareness of your constituency on the Conference
before their Summer break will be greatly appreciated.
ON THE CONFERENCE
UMAC, that never before met at the West Coast of the United States,
invited Berkeley to host
this Conference, centering on the unique role of museums and collections
within universities, in recognition of the work of the multi campus
research project Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge, co-directed by Berkeley
Anthropology Professor Rosemary Joyce, and 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, some participating in the Microcosms project,
others having submitted proposals to participate in UMAC.
We appreciate your help in making the Conference known to your audience.
Regards,
Francesca Lattanzi
Conference Coordinator
UC Berkeley, Anthropology Dept.
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