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UMAC and Universeum will meet online in 2021

Message by the UMAC President, Marta Lourenço, and the Universeum President, Sébastien Soubiran:

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

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Universeum 2020

Universeum Annual Conference 2020

22-26 June 2020

Université Libre de Bruxelles, KU Leuven, Belgium

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The theme of the 2020 Universeum Annual Conference in Belgium will be :

University museums and collections in the vanguard of contemporary societal debates

This main theme echoed the debate on the definition of museum in ICOM community.  During the 2020 Universeum Annual Conference in Belgium, we would like to continue this debate and focus it specifically in relation to university museums (U-museums) and collections, questioning their role as actor of social and political change on one hand ; and how they deal with the challenges of their past on a second hand? 

Read more in the full Call for Papers.

Abstract template

We invite you to contribute to this collective reflection and submit your abstract  to the following email address using the abstract template by Friday 28 February 2020.

Contact: universeum2020@ulb.be

Programme Committee :

Nathalie Nyst, Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB (Belgium), Chair

Geert Vanpaemel, KU Leuven (Belgium), Vice-chair

Frédérique Andry-Cazin, Sorbonne University (France)

Esther Boeles, University of Amsterdam (NL)

Mélanie Cornelis, Université de Liège – ULiège (Belgium)

Marjan Doom, Ghent Universiteit (Belgium)

Maria Economou, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow (UK)

Marlen Mouliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

Sébastien Soubiran, Jardin des sciences, University of Strasbourg (France)

Kevin Troch, Université de Mons – UMONS (Belgium)

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UNIVERSEUM has a new President!

 

 

UMAC is delighted that UMAC member Sébastien Soubiran, from the Jardin des Sciences/University of Strasbourg (France), was elected President of UNIVERSEUM, the European University Heritage Network, on 10 June 2017.

UMAC wishes Sébastien the best promoting European university heritage in Europe and beyond. We are looking forward to even more collaborations with him and the newly-elected UNIVERSEUM Board.

We also profit to thank Sofia Talas, the former UNIVERSEUM President – also a UMAC member – her precious contribution to university museums and collections and to UMAC. The organisation of the last UMAC Annual Conference in Milan would have not been possible without her.

UMAC wishes both the best of successes!!!