International Council of Museums Committee for University Museums and Collections

I SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL DE EXTENSIÓN UNIVERSITARIA EN LA FORMACIÓN DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE CIENCIAS TECNICAS EN EL SIGLO XXI
2018-11-26 - 2018-11-30 | Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana, José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae, La Habana, Cuba
Promoción cultural, globalización y gestión universitaria.

Organizado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana, José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae.
Esta edición en el marco de la 19 Convención de la Cujae ratifica al ámbito académico y la vía expedita que representa el proceso extensionista para el diálogo reflexivo y franco, la interactividad y la creatividad. El seminario se propone como espacio de encuentro y concertación de proyectos, redes y nuevos compromisos donde se analizan y estudian soluciones a los problemas más apremiantes de la Sociedad, al tiempo que se tributa al futuro de nuestros países.
Se realizará entre el 26 y 30 de noviembre del 2018.
Read more (in Spanish).
Abstract submission: English, Spanish.

Encuentro Internacional ORGANISMOS MUSEOLOGICOS HIPERCONECTADOS
2018-11-08 - 2018-11-11 | ITAIPU Binacional y el MUSEO de ITAIPU – Tierra Guaraní, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Call for papers and more information: Segunda circular

I Encontro das Coleções Didáticas e Científicas da UFOPA
2018-11-01 | Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Pará, Brazil
As coleções da Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), em Santarém na Amazônia Brasileira, são representativas da diversidade arqueológica, histórica e natural do Baixo Amazonas, tornando-se referências internacionais.
De forma à trazer a discussão sobre a relação universidade e coleções e seus mecanismos de proteção, UFOPA, Rede Brasileira de Coleções e Museus Universitários e Comitê Internacional para Coleções e Museus Universitários – Conselho Internacional de Museus, promovem este I Encontro.

Programação:
-Apresentação do histórico, importância, conjuntura e possibilidades das coleções e museus universitários (Thomaz Xavier Carneiro, UFPA)
-Apresentações das coleções da UFOPA (docentes responsáveis)
-Proposta de criação de Política Institucional de coleções UFOPA (Profª Thaís Almeida)
-Debate e proposições finais.

ICOFOM Annual Symposium in Tehran, October 15-19, 2018
2018-10-15 - 2018-10-19 | Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
UMAC Board member Fatemeh Ahmadi announces the
ICOFOM 41st Annual Symposium on the theme “Museology and the Sacred.” This symposium will take place in Tehran, Iran, from 15th to 19th October 2018 (Iranian calendar : 22-27 Mehr 1397).
Please look at this site for more information:
http://network.icom.museum/icofom/meetings/next-conference/

V Forum Brasileiro de Museus Universitários
2018-10-09 - 2018-10-11 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

P-MUS Workshop
2018-10-08 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The P-MUS consortium — UMAC, ICTOP, AAMG and Universeum – will organise a Project Workshop at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 8 October 2018.
Eco Station, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.
The Workshop will have two parts. The first part will be restricted to P-MUS project members. The second part will not only be public but also broadcasted live.
It will include a keynote address by Tereza Scheiner (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Unirio) and a roundtable to debate P-MUS results.
See preliminary programme.
The Workshop is supported by the Rede de Museus e Espaços de Ciências e Cultura, UFMG.
P-MUS is supported by ICOM Special Projects. Learn more.

6th UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
2018-09-26 - 2018-09-27 | Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Malaysia
For over 100 years the UIA has been working to promote and facilitate the work of international associations.
The UIA Associations Round Table is an opportunity to learn through networking and through practice:

meet representatives of other international associations and share experience and knowledge
gain practical skills and tools to help you do your work better

This year the Round Table Asia-Pacific will take place Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Congreso Sudamericano de Museos Universitarios
2018-09-13 - 2018-09-14 | Centro Cultural R. R. Rojas, Av. Corrientes 2038, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Programa/Program

Junctions – University collections and their networks
2018-09-13 - 2018-09-15 | Pará
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10th German Conference of University Collections
7th Annual Meeting of the German Society for University Collections
Mainz University, Germany
During the 18th century university collections developed as “central meeting places” (Dominik Collet) and until now they don’t build enclosed rooms but are gathering around people as well as objects and furthermore have the function of a “contact zone” (James Clifford). Throughout the complex ways of their provenance, their changing uses and their connections to different protagonists they represent junctions of extended networks.
This year’s Conference, organized by Mainz University in cooperation with the German Society for University Collections and addressed to curators of university and museum collections and scientists working with objects, focusses on the networks of collections and the different perspectives on their objects. It will be discussed which potential follows from that for the cooperation with other disciplines, with partners within and out of universities, on regional, national and international level.
Note: the Conference language is German.
See Program.
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UMG Conference 2018 – Foreign Exchange?
2018-07-03 | Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2018 Conference of the University Museums Group, UK
Foreign exchange? University museums and international engagement
University museum collections originate from many countries. Over decades and in some cases centuries, they were created and curated through scientific fieldwork and collecting that ranged worldwide. In the present, those interested in studying collections and in borrowing art works and specimens for analysis and exhibition represent, like our students, many nations. International engagement is anything but foreign to us. Read more.

UK University Museums Group Conference
2018-07-03 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The annual conference of the UK University Museums Group takes place at the University of Cambridge on 3 July. It is a single-day event, including visits to both the (newly renovated) Zoology Museum and Kettle’s Yard (the famous modern and contemporary art space) at the University.
Theme: ‘Foreign exchange?’
Read more here.
Registrations here.

XII Jornadas sobre Patrimonio de Institutos Históricos
2018-07-02 - 2018-07-05 | IES San Isidro & IES Isabel la Católica, Madrid, Spain
Las jornadas están organizadas por el IES San Isidro y el IES Isabel la Católica, y a ella asistirán los Institutos y profesores que se preocupan en la conservación del patrimonio y la Historia de sus Institutos. Ambos institutos son centros de educación de secundaria históricos y socios y fundadores de la Asociación Nacional de Defensa del Patrimonio de los Institutos Históricos.

Algunos de los objetivos de las XII jornadas son los siguientes:
– Visibilizar la riqueza patrimonial que conservan los Institutos históricos de enseñanza secundaria.
– Intercambiar las experiencias y actividades sobre el patrimonio realizadas en los Institutos.
– Difundir el patrimonio educativo de los centros de enseñanza en España y en Europa

Estos objetivos son compartidos por el año europeo del patrimonio cultural, y a las jornadas asistirán organizaciones europeas que trabajan conservando el patrimonio educativo en sus respectivos paises, las jornadas contaran con el sello del año europeo del patrimonio cultural.
More info.

18th UMAC Annual Conference
2018-06-21 - 2018-06-24 | University of Miami, Miami, United States
Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World
Joint Annual Conference UMAC-AAMG

See Programme here.

Universeum Meeting
2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15 | Pará
The next universeum annual meeting will be held in Glasgow June 13th to 15th, 2018.
Training workshop sessions will be organized for June 11th-12th and post-conference visits to other university museums in the rest of Scotland on June 16th-17th.
More information at http://universeum.it

colecciones y museos universitarios hiperconectados
2018-05-17 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Pará

1er Encuentro Nacional de Museos Universitarios Mexico
2018-04-18 - 2018-04-21 | Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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You shall be heard!? a conference about how (not) to share personal narratives
2018-04-12 - 2018-04-13 | Vest Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
The conference aims to explore how museums can contribute to a society where multiple voices are heard, multiple perspectives are revealed and more people are – and feel – included and recognized. International speakers will reflect on political changes in Europe and the consequences for museums. In addition, psychologists will shed light on how shame and openness are related to identity development, and we shall learn more the status of knowledge and ways to improve our work with local societies and difficult issues.
Programme.

University Museum Training Week Shanghai 2018
2018-04-11 - 2018-04-20 | Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai, China
Twenty-eight university museum professionals from mainland China and one from Hong-Kong will participate in the University Museum Training Week Shanghai UMTWS 2018, 11-20 April, organized by UMAC-ICOM in partnership with the Qian Xuesen Library and Museum, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The theme of UMTWS 2018 will be GOALS AND PRIORITIZATION: STRATEGIC PLANING IN UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS.
Download the programme here.

SEMINAR ICOM NORWAY Towards new relations between the museum and society - and Sami perspectives
2018-04-11 | Vest Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
Speakers from the Nordic countries will talk about own experiences while working with local societies and/or sensitive issues.
Programme.

2018 CAUMAC - ANU Symposium
2018-04-06 | Australian National University
Reframing university collections – research infrastructure

European Academic Heritage Day
2017-11-18 | Pará
European universities host outstanding libraries, archives, museums, collections and monuments of historic, scientific and artistic interest. This heritage embodies the universities’ 900-year contribution to the advancement of science and knowledge and is a major component of European identity and culture.
In order to raise awareness to the importance of university heritage, UNIVERSEUM, the European University Heritage Network, has established 18 November as European University Heritage Day.
The theme for the 2017 European Academic Heritage Day is COLONISERS AND COLONISED.
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Opening of Musée L
2017-11-18 | Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Musée L, the University of Louvain Museum, where dialogue between scientific collections and art elicits new emotions

University of Louvain’s new museum, the Musée L, will open on 18 November 2017 in Louvain-la-Neuve’s architectural landmark, an exceptional building designed by the architect André Jacqmain. After two and a half years of renovation, University of Louvain will open Belgium’s very first large-scale university museum, with more than 3830 m² accessible to the general public. Its special features will include the dialogues between University of Louvain’s unique artistic and scientific collections, and three laboratories where the public can employ material and technical approaches to explore objects. Museum spaces will embody the wish to make the museum a ‘guesthouse’, a welcoming place open to all. For its first exhibition, Musée L will host Barthélémy Toguo, an artist who engages with human realities.
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See Musée L in UMAC Worldwide Database

2nd International Conference 'University Museums and Collections: The Universal Heritage'
2017-11-17 | St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The 2nd International Conference ‘University Museums and Collections: The Universal Heritage’ is integrated in the VI St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum (16-18 November 2017).

The Laboratory Revolution 1850-1950
2017-10-26 - 2017-10-27 | University of Groningen, Netherlands
The Laboratory Revolution 1850-1950
The Rise of the Laboratory and the Changing Nature of the University
The laboratory is the ultimate place where knowledge is created. What had originally only been the workplace of alchemists and chemists, by the end of the nineteenth century had become a standard element in the infrastructure of science. The rise of the laboratory revolutionized the sciences in many ways and it continues to do so up to this moment. This is all common knowledge and well studied, but what is not so well known is that laboratories also had a tremendous impact on the universities, which in the nineteenth century were becoming the most common institution for science and scholarship. Read more.

VIII Encontro de Museus Universitários do Mercosul, V da América Latina e do Caribe e I Encontro de Museus Universitários do Perú
2017-10-22 - 2017-10-23 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
Temas Globales en Museos y Colecciones Universitarias, Diagnóstico y Gestión de los Museos Universitarios.
La convocatoria será para la región latinoamericana y Perú. El Encuentro acercará a los profesionales de museos universitarios a un espacio de diálogo, para conocernos e iniciar una red que nos fortalezca y redistribuya conocimientos así como compartir nuestras experiencias y el intercambio de profesionales para mejorar las condiciones de nuestras colecciones.

19th Horst Gerson Lecture
2017-10-06 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | University of Groningen, Netherlands
Everything or Nothing? What Do University Museums Know?
Dr. Ivan Gaskell, Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies at Bard Graduate Center, New York City
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Materia Medica on the Move II
2017-10-04 - 2017-10-06 | Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam & Artis Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contextualizing drug components as collectables, commodities, and cultural markers in the early modern period

Universities: space, place and community
2017-09-13 | University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Courtesy University of Manchester.
More than most institutions, universities have historically been defined in crucial ways by their relationship to spaces and places. They are typically named after and identified with the town or city in which they are located. They have also been important architectural patrons, and the buildings they have created tell us a great deal about their conception of their functions. And in their use of their own space they have consciously or unconsciously manufactured academic communities and impacted on the communities beyond their walls.
Most importantly today, the tension between their global mission and their particular special location has come under scrutiny as governments see overseas students as a source of longer-term net migration. Continue reading.
Programme

University Museums Group Annual Conference
2017-09-11 - 2017-09-12 | University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Stuff and Knowledge: an exploration of the future of teaching and learning within university museums
Objects have been intrinsic to teaching and learning within higher education and university museums since their very beginnings. Although the context may have changed from primarily knowledge-focused learning, to include skills-based analytical learning, collections and object-based learning still have an essential role to play within higher education today.
Focusing on the development of the Teaching Excellence Framework and the current educational climate, this conference will explore and debate the benefits and challenges of teaching with museum and departmental collections through innovative and provocative keynote addresses, diverse case studies and illuminating panel discussions.
University Museums Group conferences are renowned for their networking opportunities, and there will be plenty of spaces within the programme for delegates to meet, share experiences and make new connections.
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I Encuentro de Museos Universitarios de la AUGM
2017-09-07 - 2017-09-08 | Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, Argentina
“Los museos, la Reforma Universitaria del ’18 y la extensión universitaria: vigencia y prospectiva.”
Los museos universitarios históricamente han sido uno de los engranajes privilegiados para vincular la universidad con la sociedad cumpliendo con su misión primigenia de transmisión de conocimiento. Los mismos se van modificando con los cambios de la sociedad, creemos importante en el 2017, reunirnos a reflexionar sobre los mecanismos de extensión que actualmente existen en nuestros museos universitarios.
Conference website
Conclusiones
