Museum Networks and Museum History
MGHG Biennial Conference
Hosted Online 14—16 July 2021
Tickets are available here
PROGRAMME
All timings are BST
Wednesday 14 July
11.50am Introduction
12-1.30pm Panel 1. Gifts, networks and transnational museums
Chair: Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
Reassembling the Gift: Recovering the Political Intent of Tibetan Buddhist Objects Emma Martin
Achinto Sen-Gupta’s gifts to the British Museum Kajal Meghani
Gift giving at the ‘end’ of empire: museum networks and museum histories Claire Wintle and Nikki Grout
3-4.30pm Panel 2. Networks of museums
Chair: Kate Hill
Closing the Passmore Edwards: exploring the connections of a local authority museum Mark Liebenrood
Learning through networking: the Laing Art Gallery asks for advice Laia Anguix
At the Edges of Place: Networks of Local Siberian Museums Marisa Karyl Franz
Available from 5pm (pre-recorded) Kew’s Economic Botany Collection: a living collection from a lost museum
6-7.15pm Keynote 1
The Micromuseums Boom: how thousands of people opened their own museums Fiona Candlin
Chair: Mark Westgarth
Thursday 15 July
11.30am MGHG AGM 2021
12-2pm Panel 3. Social and material networks
Chair: Caroline Morris
‘I ended with a few glimmerings of conchology’: Learning how to collect through networks of nineteenth century private collections Kirsty Kernohan
The Flavour of the Fight: Economic Botany in the Great Game Era and Silk Roads Ecological Narratives Alexandra Slucky
Following object itineraries from ancient Cyprus to museum collections Anna Reeve
Inside, outside, in between – museum networks under National Socialism: contribution to a prosopographic museum historiography Karin Müller-Kelwing
3-5pm Panel 4. Networks: Concepts and Methods
Chair: Caroline Morris
Multiplying the Past: Replica Agency and Museum Networks Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw and Felix Sattler
In a relationship: networks, contexts, databases Victoria Donnellan
UNESCO’s Manual of Travelling Exhibitions as Networking Device Nushelle de Silva
The networks of performance art in the museum: a case study from Tate Helia Marcal and Stephen Huyton
5.30-6pm Mobile Museums: recasting museums as centres of circulation Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt and Caroline Cornish with Paul Basu
Friday 16 July
12-2pm Panel 5. Imperial networks
Chair: Rebecca Wade
The David Livingstone Birthplace Project: networks of Empire, Museums and Communities in the 19th through to the 21st Century Elena Trimarchi
The Colonial Intellectual Network and the Origin of Museums in British East and Southeast Asia Reynold K. W. Tsang
‘Directed to evolve order out of extreme disorder’: Collecting Networks for Calcutta’s Museums Lydia Murtezaoglu
Local and Global: Botanical Networks between Australia and England Jessica White
3-4pm Q&A session on poster presentations
5-6pm Keynote 2
Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Museum histories and contemporary networks Alice Stevenson
Chair: Katy Barrett
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