The roundtables, oral papers, meetings, workshops and keynote addresses are now accessible to everyone in UMAC YouTube channel.
Look for them under the playlist ‘Highlights from UMAC-Universeum 2021’. The chats and live transcripts will be made accessible au fur et à mesure, in this website.
Registration for the six workshops of the UMAC-Universeum 2021 Annual Conference (1-3 September) is now open.
Please register for the Conference first and then you can register for the workshops.
Everything can be done here.
The program of the UMAC and Universeum Joint Conference has now been published.
Registrations have also opened.
Read more.
The deadline of the call for proposals for the UMAC-Universeum 2021 online conference has been extended until 18 April 2021.
Submit your abstract here.
Dear members, dear colleagues, dear friends,
Despite our strong will to meet and be together physically, it is now clear that it will not happen yet in 2021, for the reasons we all know.
The Boards of Universeum and UMAC have therefore decided i) to postpone the physical conference at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, to a later date and ii) to organize in 2021 a joint meeting, to be held exclusively online, between 1 and 3 September.
While frustrating of course, we are also incredibly excited by the opportunities that an online conference provides, namely in terms of audiences, presentation formats, and worldwide access, both in the present and future. It’s a new experience for UMAC and Universeum, and we will do our best.
The theme of UMAC-Universeum 2021 will be NEW OPPORTUNITIES – NEW CHALLENGES IN TIMES OF COVID-19.
Last year, we shared our experiences of COVID19 and its immediate impact on university museums and collections. In 2021, we would like to use these experiences to explore deeper and longer-term lessons of adaptability and resilience.
While we wait for the conference website, the Call for Proposals is already accessible here.
You can propose papers, workshops and … for the first time, videos. We want to hear from you, wherever you are in the world.
Looking forward to your proposals.
Best regards,
Marta Lourenço, UMAC President
Sébastien Soubiran, Universeum President
Co-Chairs of UMAC-Universeum 2021
