UMAC & UNIVERSEUM @ TUD 2024 // Livestream Announcement
the Organizing Committee have announced the streaming details for the keynotes. If you cannot join us in person, please read on …
Dear colleagues,
as this year’s joint annual meeting of ICOM-UMAC and UNIVERSEUM European Academic Heritage Network is approaching, we have the pleasure to announce that both the Opening Remarks as well as the two Keynotes of the conference will be streamed live via Zoom.
On Wednesday September 25th, 2024, at 9 am (CEST), the conference will open with a Welcome by the patron of the conference, the Minister President of the Free State of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, and the Rector of TUD Dresden University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinger, amongst others. A keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), one of the leading voices in archaeogenetics worldwide, will follow.
On Friday, September 27th, 2024, 6:30 pm (CEST), an evening lecture by the renowned anthropologist and curator Prof. Wayne Modest (Wereldmuseum Amsterdam/Leiden/Rotterdam // Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands) will serve as a catalyst to bring a broader audience to the discourse on the relationship between theory and practice in museum work.
We warmly invite you to join us online for these exciting events. For the access information, please see below.
All information about the keynote as well as the conference in general can be found at our conference website: https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024
Looking forward to welcoming you virtually at TU Dresden,
Best regards,
the Organizing Committee
Kirsten Vincenz, Jörg Zaun, and Else Schlegel
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Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, 9 am (CEST)
>> Welcome Remarks & Opening Keynote <<
“The Challenges and Potential to Use Anthropological Collections for Archaeogenetic Studies”
Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Zoom login
https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/62556143904?pwd=N9mtEaUqsZlUpo1Lcfmt1L0ZLskNTj.1
Meeting ID: 625 5614 3904
Passcode: t6z!0VJF
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Friday, September 27th, 2024, 6:30 pm (CEST)
>> Evening Keynote <<
“Where Theory Meets Practice, or, Every Museum Should be a University Museum”
Prof. Dr. Wayne Modest
(Wereldmuseum, Amsterdam/Leiden/Rotterdam & Research Center for Material Culture, Leiden, NL)
Zoom login
https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/68193933334?pwd=qnniyvTBT0Tzq9c0HC4imhbbOjN0MN.1
Meeting ID: 681 9393 3334
Passcode: nrbM^60f