"Collections at the Core:
  curation, care, and controversy"

Saturday, April 30th

Hosted by
The Indiana University Art Museum
Bloomington, IN


Click Here to download the Conference Brochure and Registration Form.


      PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8:00 am

9:00 am

9:30 am





9:45 am



10:30 am


11:15 am

11:30 am


12:15 pm

Session I

1:15 pm


2:00 pm


2:45 pm


Session II

1:15 pm






2:00 pm





2:45 pm





3:30 pm

3:45 pm



4:30 pm

6:00 pm

Get on Bus at Indianapolis Convention Center

Registration and Continental Breakfast at the IU Art Museum


Welcoming presentations
Lisa Hanover         President, ACUMG
Ken Gros Louis     Chancellor, Indiana University
Adelheide Gealt    Director, Indiana University Art Museum
Stefan Sommer     Vice President, ACUMG

Collections and Scholarly Publications
Hugh Genoways - Editor, COLLECTIONS: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals Chair, Museum Studies Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,

Standards of Stewardship
Elizabeth Merritt - Director, Museum Advancement & Excellence, AAM

Break

Federal Funding: "Backing the Basics: Advancing the Cause of Preservation”
Adelheide Gealt - Director, IU Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Lunch



Museum Collections and Potential Collections in War and Occupation: the Iraq Disaster
McGuire Gibson, Professor of Archaeology, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Preservation Perspectives: Collections Care and Use in the Academic Environment
Nicky Ladkin, Senior Research Associate, Museum of Texas Tech University

Digital Behavior in the American Museum: Diverse Approaches to Collections Access

Richard Urban, Assoc. Director, Collaborative Digitization Project, Denver University



Sex and Sensibility: Panel Discussion on Controversial Collections
Catherine Johnson Roehr - Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
Judith Kirk, Asst. Director, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University
Ellen Sieber, Curator, Matthers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University
Liana Zhou, Head of the Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University

Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Available to the first 40 registrants!
(please mark your interest under "special considerations" on your registration form)
Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University

Tour of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Available to the first 40 registrants!
(please mark your interest under "special considerations" on your registration form)Garry Milius, Asst Curator of Art, Artifacts, and Photographs, The Kinsey Institute for
Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University

Break

What is the Object of Our Profession? panel and community discussion:
Adelheide Gealt, Hugh Genoways, McGuire Gibson, Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Judith Kirk, Nicky Ladkin, Ellen Sieber, Elizabeth Merritt, Richard Urban, Liana Zhou

Reception at the Indiana University Art Museum

Buses return to Conference Center - Farewell 'till next year!