Museology PhD Forum – Updated

26th January 2012 – 10:30 to 16:00

10:30: Coffee and introductions

11:00 – 12:15:
Louise Tythacott: Loot from China’s Summer Palace in auctions, exhibitions and museums

12:15 – 12:45: Lunch

12:45 – 2:15
Derek Trillo: Re-imaging the museum: Digital photography, the visiting experience and audience engagement
Julia Snape: Sensing the Medieval: some contemporary approaches to the display and interpretation of Medieval art

2:15 – 2:30: BREAK: coffee, tea and introduction from visiting PhD student Victoria Lopez

2:30 – 4:00:
Chiara Zuanni: Understanding pseudo archaeology and its impact
Deborah Leftwich: From Missionary to Museum; the relocation of Tibetan Ga’u
Dr Helen Rees Leahy, Fixing attention in the museum