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AHRC Technologies of Travel Workshop: Programme
Convenors: Dr. Michael Bravo and Mrs. Heather Lane
September 5, 2007
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:30-10:40 | Welcome & Opening Remarks Chair: Professor Liz Morris (SPRI) Mrs Heather Lane, Keeper of Collections, SPRI Museum |
| 10:40-10:45 | Notices for Participants |
Session 1: Why 'Technologies of Travel'?Chair: Dr. Nancy Wachowich (Aberdeen University) |
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| 10:45-11:30 | Dr. Michael Bravo (SPRI), 'Opening the Black Box: the Challenge of Seasonality for Curating the History of Technologies of Travel' |
| 11:30-11:45 | Discussant: Janet Owen (National Maritime Museum) |
| 11:45-12:30 | General Discussion |
| 12:45-1:30: Lunch | |
Session 2: The Materiality of Technologies of Travel (I)Chair: Dr Robin Boast (Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) |
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| 1:30-2:00 | Mr. Peter Loovers (Aberdeen University), 'The Woodchip and Mackenzie:a Multivocal Approach towards Travelling in the Arctic' |
| 2:00-2:30 | Ms. Vanda Broughton (SOAS), 'Facet Analysis and Museum Objects' |
| 2:30-3:00 | General Discussion |
| 3:00-3:30: Tea | |
Session 3: The Materiality of Technologies of Travel (II)Chair: Prof. David Turnbull |
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| 3:30-4:00 | Dr. Nancy Wachowich 'Video-art and Renewing Spaces of Travel' |
| 4:00-4:30 | Dr. Christopher Ries (Roskilde), 'Airplanes, Sledges, and Credibility in Greenland' |
| 5:00-5:15 | General Discussion |
5:30 - 6:30 Drinks reception
7:30 Dinner at Downing College
September 6, 2007
Keynote Address followed by Questions: David Turnbull (Melbourne University, Australia) |
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| 9:15-10:15 | Professor David Turnbull (Melbourne University, Australia), 'Technologies of Travel and Assemblages of Knowledge' |
| 10:15 Coffee | |
Session 4: Museum Installations, Small Group Work |
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| 10:45-12:15 | The aim of the small group work is to situate discussions about technologies of travel within three curatorial spaces: Participants will be assigned to one of three groups of about 10-12 people: Groups will then rotate between museum installations, spending 45 minutes at each: This will enable each group to work with 2 of the 3 installations: Conversations will be generated with the help of a curator/leader: Each group will elect a rapporteur for the plenary discussion: Previous experience with this methodology shows that each group brings with it different ideas and questions that produce unique conversations, so there need be no fear of repetition:
Facilitators: Dr. Nancy Wachowich, Professor David Turnbull Group 1: Mrs. Heather Lane (SPRI) and Ms. Amber Lincoln (University of Aberdeen), The Seasonality of Technologies of Travel in Scott Polar Research Institute Collections. Group 2: Ms. Imogen Gunn, Mr. Carl Hogsden (Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), Museums and Communities: The 1934 Wordie Expedition. Group 3: Ms. Lynn Peplinski (Inuit Heritage Trust), Reconciling Place names in Canada's North. |
| 12:15-1:00 | Plenary Session
Chair: Professor David Turnbull Format: 6 Rapporteurs will have 5 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes of discussion: Rapporteurs will be asked to write up their notes. |
| 1:00- 2:00 Lunch | |
Session 5: Panel - Dialogues between Source Communities, Museums and their Audiences |
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| Chair: Prof: Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) | |
| 2:00-2:20 | Ms. Ericka Chemko (Nunavut Heritage): 'Building Institutions of Heritage and Social Memory: a View from Nunavut' |
| 2:20-2:40 | Dr. Genevieve LeMoine, 'Curating Historic Technologies at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum' |
| 2:40-3:00 | Ms. Claire Warrior (National Maritime Museum): 'The Meaning of Admiralty Photographs amongst Inuit' |
| 3:00-4:00 | Questions and General Discussion with the Panel |
| 3:45-4:15 | Concluding thoughts: Dr. Henrietta Lidchi, Prof. David Turnbull, Dr. Nancy Wachowich |