Conference Day 1

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

National University of Singapore

Session 1 – The University Museum: Locations of Practice

1) Panu Nykänen

Aalto University, Finland

Paper Title: Three Paths to UMAC

Bio: Historian and archaeologist Panu Nykänen – doctorate (2000) in history – is a professor of

history at the Aalto University. Earlier as a museum professional working for the National Museum of

Finland, he is now in charge of the historical collections of Aalto and the research of the history of

technical education and research, and history of technology. Panu Nykänen has publications in

history of technology, industrial archaelogy and history of education.

2) Anand Burdhan Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management, India

Paper Title: National Movement and Bharat Kala Bhavan (B.H.U.)

Bio: Dr. Anand Burdhan is an Assistant Professor of Heritage Management and Museum Studies at

Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management, New Delhi. He has authored the book

Rediscovering Indian Museology and Conservation (Sundeep Publications, New Delhi, 2010) that has

been widely acclaimed. He has edited and prepared the book Discourses on Museology Vol. I. He

has authored a monograph Arena of Indian Museology for the conference of Commonwealth

Museums Association in Mumbai in 2011. He was involved in the designing the National Philatelic

Museum, New Delhi. He is present secretary of the Museums Association of India.

3) Luisa Fernanda Rico Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Paper Title: To Update Research and Teaching Collections to Give Them Contemporaneity Meaning

Bio: Luisa earned her Ph. D. in History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),

where she analyzed the history of museums and the museums of history in Mexico. She works as

researcher at the General Office for the Dissemination of Science (DGDC-UNAM), where she

organizes the Seminar for Museological Research and also the group for Mexican University

Museums UMAC-ICOM. She teaches in areas of museology, cultural heritage and sustainability.

Some written works include History of ICOM-México as co-writer (2000), History of the Museums of

Mexico City from 1790 to 1910 (2004), Contributions to the Mexican Museology as both author and

coordinator (2011) and many articles such as History of the University Museums, History Museums

and the National Identity, Cultural Heritage, Museums and Tourism in Mexico, Paths and Encounters:

Mexican School Museums, Patrimony and Reflections for the 21st Century, Collections and Museums

of Science in Mexico, Development and Challenges, etc. Recently, she coordinated the book

Museology of Science at the UNAM. She has given over 100 lectures, both at the national and

international levels. She has been an active ICOM member since 1989, secretary of ICOM-México

from 1993 till 2002 and member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of

Archaeology and History (ICMAH) board from 1997 till 2004. Nowadays, she is a member of UMAC.

Session 2 – Practices: Teaching, Experimentation and the Exhibitionary

1) Ai Lin Chua

Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paper Title: From National Museum to University Museum

Bio: Chui Ai Lin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, National University of

Singapore, where she teaches Singapore history. She is very active in the field of Singapore heritage

and museums. Besides having worked as a consultant for the History Gallery and Living Galleries at

the National Museum of Singapore, she is currently a Board Member of the National Heritage Board

and the Vice-President of the Singapore Heritage Society, a non-governmental organisation. Her

publications include ‘Imperial Subjects, Straits Citizens: Anglophone Asians and the Struggle for

Political Rights in Inter-War Singapore’ in Paths Not Taken, edited by Michael Barr and Carl Trocki

(Singapore: NUS Press, 2008), ‘The Modern Magic Carpet: Wireless radio in interwar colonial

Singapore’ in Modern Asian Studies vol., 46, no. 1 (Jan 2012) and ‘Nation, Race, and Language:

Discussing transnational identities in colonial Singapore, circa 1930’ Singapore’ in Modern Asian

Studies vol., 46, no. 2 (Mar 2012).

2) Steph Scholten University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paper Title: The HeritageLab: A Learning Space

Bio: An art-historian by training, Steph Scholten graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1990.

Since then, he has worked in the cultural sector in the Netherlands as an advisor and director for

museum and heritage collections and heritage policy. In the 90s he first worked as a policy advisor at

the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. He has worked for the Netherlands Institute for

Cultural Heritage as head of conservation research and project manager (Amsterdam 1997-2005)

and as head of collections and deputy director at the National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden, 2002 -

2009). Since 2009 he has been Director of Heritage Collections of the University of Amsterdam.

3) Louise Marcelino Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Paper Title: Spaces of Bliss

Bio: Louise Anne Marcelino is a Museum Researcher at the Vargas Museum, University of the

Philippines. She received her bachelor’s degree in Art Studies magna cum laude in 2007 and is

currently a graduate student of Museum Studies in the same university. In 2011, she was an

International Fellowship Researcher at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Her

research interests include systems of representation in particular cities (Marikina City and Quezon

City, Philippines), artist-run spaces and initiatives, as well as museum education.

4) Tessa Maria Guazon Art Studies, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines

Paper Title: Housing Objects: Architecture as Mediation

Bio: Tessa Maria Guazon is assistant professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines-

Diliman. She has degrees in design and art history from the University of the Philippines-Diliman and

has written on public art, urban forms and film depictions of city spaces and urban life. Her academic

essays and art reviews were published in the Philippine Humanities Review, Humanities Diliman,

Agham Tao Journal, Culture 360.org (Asia-Europe Foundation’s online magazine), Asian Art News

and Suri Sining. She writes for exhibitions and the Young Critics Circle's (Film Desk) virtual review

platform. An essay on Manila and state-sponsored public art is forthcoming in Transforming Asian

Cities: Spatial Practices, Knowledge and Emergence: An Anthology to be published by Routledge

(Taylor and Francis) in September 2012. Her current research considers artistic mediations of urban

conditions and contemporary public art projects in Metro Manila.

Conference Day 2

Thursday, 11 October 2012

National Library Building, Victoria Street

Note: Sessions 3 – 6 will be presented as parallel sessions

Session 3

Theme 1 – University Museums in the National Landscape

1) Nor Edzan Che Nasir

University of Malaya, Malaysia

Paper Title: After the Separation: Continuing in UM Kuala Lumpur

Bio: Dr. Nor Edzan Che Nasir is the Chief Librarian at the University of Malaya Library. Prior to this,

she had been with the Masters of Library and Information Science programme from 1999 to 2007 at

the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia. She was a librarian at Universiti Sains Malaysia Library from 1983 to 1991 and went on to

become a librarian at the University of Malaya Library from 1991 to 1999. She was awarded a B.Sc

(Hons) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1982 and an M.Sc (Information Studies) from Leeds

Metropolitan University in 1995. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management

(Librarianship) from the University of New South Wales, Australia and obtained her PhD at the

University of Malaya in 2007. Her research interests centre on information literacy, library science

education, journal publishing, institutional repositories and social media. She has presented and

published numerous papers and is currently the editor for Jurnal PPM. She now oversees the

Museum of Asian Art and the University of Malaya Art Gallery.

2) Yingyod Lapwong Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Paper Title: The First Survey of University Museums in Thailand

Bio: Mr Yingyod Lapwong is working as a scientist at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural

History Museum, Prince of Songkla University, south of Thailand. He was one of the very first

volunteers working in this museum when he was an undergraduate student there. In 2007, after

finishing his degree, the museum offered him a scientist position. Six months later, due to the lack of

organization at the museum, the Thai government granted him a scholarship to study at Macquarie

University, Australia. Lapwong spent two years doing the Master of Museum Studies and finished in

2010. After that, he returned to Thailand to continue his career at the Princess Maha Chakri

Sirindhorn Natural History Museum. In addition to his scientist position, Lapwong is also working on

marketing, public relations and educational programs. However, he still spares time to develop his

skills on taxidermy.

3) Supriya Sinha

National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India

Paper Title: Role of Anthropology Department Museum of University of Delhi in the Study of

Ethnological Collections

Bio: 1. Anthropological Survey of India, National Museum of Man: A plan Outline, Calcutta, 1977. 2.

Basa, KK, Multiple Heritage: Role of Specialised Museums in India, Serial Publication, 2010. 3.

Burdhan, Anand, Rediscovering Indian Museology and Conservation, Sandeep Prakashan, New

Delhi, 2010. 4.Chakravarty,K K ,Sundarram,K V, and Moni, M. Ed., Restoring Human Culture and

Biospheric Environment, Bhoovigyan Vikas Foundation, New Delhi, 2003. 5.Roy, Sachin, Museum of

Man in India: Problems and Prospects,1972.

4) Suratissa Dissanayake University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paper Title: University Museums in Sri Lanka: Honour or Disgrace?

Bio: Suratissa Dissanayake is Museum Curator of the Department of Zoology, University of Colombo,

Sri Lanka. He has more than 14 years of experience in this field. He would like to participate in this

conference to share his knowledge with different nations.

Session 3

Theme 2 – Museum-based Learning

1) Jesusa Garcia Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana, Research Center, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Paper Title: From Shelves to Walls: Visible Storage for University Museum Collections

Bio: Jesusa E. Garcia has been working as Museum Assistant at the Jorge B. Vargas Museum and

Filipiniana Research Center of the University of the Philippines in Diliman since 2008. She is taking

up her master’s degree in Museum Studies at the Department of Art Studies from the same

university. Her areas of concentration are exhibition planning and coordination, museum education

program, and collections management. For her thesis, she is exploring and focusing on conservation

of contemporary art in relation to exhibition programs of museums.

2) Lawrence Chin The Conservation Studio, Singapore

Paper Title: Unlocking the Value of Practical Learning

Bio: Lawrence Chin has been a conservator with The Conservation Studio, an independent studio

located at the National University of Singapore Museum since 2008. He is also a part-time lecturer at

LASALLE College of the Arts. His previous work experience was with the Heritage Conservation

Centre, National Heritage Board (1995 – 2008).

3) Lai Pik Chan Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Paper Title: Refusing to Stand Still; Reaching Out to the Public

Bio: Dr. Chan Lai Pik is a Research Associate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Art Museum.

In 2010, she was the J. S. Lee Memorial curatorial and post-doctoral fellow at the Freer and Sackler

Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Recently, Dr. Chan has actively managed

several Chinese art exhibitions in both international and local museums including “Chinese Jade: Dr.

S. Y. Kwan Collection” (Hong Kong, 2012), “Divine Power: The Dragon in Chinese Culture” (Hong

Kong, 2012), “5,000 Years of Chinese Jade Featuring Selections from the National Museum of

History, Taipei and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution” (San Antonio, 2011) and

the reinstallation at the Freer Gallery of Art “Chinese Jade: Liangzhu Culture” (Washington, D.C.,

2010). Her research interests include Chinese jade and art history in Early China, and exchanges of

material culture between East and West during the Early to the Medieval China.

4) Zuraida Esa Outram Secondary School, Singapore

Paper Title: Abdullah's Box

Bio: Zuraida possesses a strong interest in History and Geography. She has been in mainstream

education (Singapore) for the past 19 years teaching a diverse range of subjects which includes

English Language, History, Social Studies and Geography.

Session 4

Theme 1 – Building Museums

1) Elisa Montserrat Museum University of Navarra, Spain

Paper Title: Museo Universidad de Navarra

Bio: Elisa Montserrat manages the communication strategies for a new project at the University of

Navarra in the north of Spain: a museum of contemporary art which is currently being designed by the

international architect Rafael Moneo for its opening in 2014. Elisa is a PhD Candidate on corporate

reputation. She combines investigation on brand management with her professional activity at the

Museum. She taught digital narratives and audiovisual communication in the areas of commerce and

marketing at the University of Navarra and other academic institutions. In the beginning, she worked

for a few years in different media, including press, radio and television. Later, she wanted to learn

about advertisements, marketing plans, events etc. and hence she worked in different public relations

companies. Her last responsibilities before taking on her current job were as Director of Editions and

Publishing and Corporate Brand Manager at the University of Navarra. Currently, she is interested in

corporate reputation, brand management, strategies of corporate communication, new ways to

engage mass and international audiences and finally, the analysis of the economic, media and social

impact of the institutions.

2) Kang Shua Yeo Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Paper Title: Architecture as Artifact

Bio: Yeo Kang Shua obtained his BA (Architectural Studies), MA (Architecture) and PhD

(Architecture) from the National University of Singapore. He has worked on many projects involving

conservation work and has collaborated in many archaeological projects in Singapore, including

Palmer Road (2006) and Fort Serapong, Sentosa Island (2006-2007). He has published in both local

and international journals on theory of architecture, conservation and history. Kang Shua also had

the privilege of being part of the team on two separate projects that won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific

Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation: Award of Excellence for Singapore Lam Ann

Association’s Hong San See Temple Restoration Project in 2010 and the inaugural heritage award

Jury Commendation for Innovation for Yuhu Elementary School Project in Lijiang, China in 2005. He

was formerly the inaugural head of the Monuments Inspectorate at the Preservation of Monuments

Board, Singapore.

3) Andrew Simpson Museum Studies, Macquarie University, Australia

Paper Title: Australia’s First University Sporting Museum

Bio: Andrew Simpson graduated with a PhD in palaeontology. He has worked in two Australian

universities at both curatorial level and on broader institutional and sector wide policies and practices.

He developed Australia's first, and only, Museum Studies program based in a Science Faculty and

Australia's only undergraduate major in Museum Studies. His research interests include governance

of university collections, the history of natural history museums and collections and the role of

museums in the public understanding of science. He is currently Chair of the Australian University

Museums group (CAUMAC) and Chair of the NSW State branch of Museums Australia.

4) Tan Swee Hee Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paper Title: Planning for the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

Bio: Swee Hee graduated from NUS in 2004 with a PhD in Biology specializing in crab taxonomy. He

joined the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in the same year as a Research Officer. He is

now the Project Manager overseeing the building and exhibition fit-out of the Lee Kong Chian Natural

History Museum.

Session 4

Theme 2 – Broadening Audience Base

1) Anna Marie Bautista UST Museum, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Paper Title: UST Christmas Concert: A Christmas Heritage

Bio: Anna Marie H. Bautista completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Interior Design degree

from the University of Santo Tomas and placed 4th in the 1991 Specialty Board Examination for

Interior Design. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Interior Design Department of the UST-

College of Fine Arts and Design handling professional subjects and concurrently serving as the

Assistant Director of the UST Museum. She obtained her Masters in Cultural Heritage Studies from

the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas. Her master’s internship “Concept Sources,

Procedures and Preliminary Plan and Layout of the University of Santo Tomas-Manila: Four

Centuries of Greatness – A Quadricentennial Exhibition” was the blueprint of the UST Exhibition

mounted at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France last September 2011. She is a member of

the Executive Council of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts – National Committee for

Architecture and Allied Arts for 2011-2013 as an institutional representative of the Philippine Institute

of Interior Designers, the only officially recognized professional organization of interior designers in

the Philippines. She also holds the position of Secretary of the Council of Interior Design Educators.

She is also a member of the International Council of Museums.

2) Tiina Metso Polyteekkarimuseo - The Technical Students' Museum, Finland

Paper Title: Donating Time and Love - This is OUR Museum!

Bio: Tiina Metso, MA, is a final stage doctoral student at University of Helsinki (history) and the

director of The Technical Students' Museum - POLYTEEKKARIMUSEO, owned by the Aalto

University Student Union in Espoo, Finland. Tiina Metso has published internationally on different

aspects of Finnish as well as Baltic student traditions and given several lectures on the same topics.

3) Catherine Giltrap College Art Collections, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Paper Title: The Art of Infiltrating the Campus Consciousness

Bio: Catherine Giltrap is the first museum professional engaged as Curator of the College Art

Collections at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and was recently invited onto the Board of ICOM Ireland.

Since 2007, she has been in charge of some 2,000 items including College portraits, paintings and

sculptures dating from 1601 to the present day, the College Silver and the Decorative Arts collection.

She was previously employed in curatorial posts and art and architectural heritage conservation

consultancy roles at institutions including the Chester Beatty Library & Galleries, the Irish State Art

Collections, Farmleigh and Fingal Arts Office, and organised the return of the Irish and Northern Irish

Venice Biennale art exhibitions in 2007/2008. She is a graduate of the Departments of the History of

Art and Architecture and French at Trinity College Dublin. Catherine also completed a Masters

dissertation in Museum Studies through the University of Leicester, England, on ‘The Role of

University Museums and Collections’. Her research focused partly, by means of an in-depth survey,

on the situation of higher education visual art collections in Ireland within an international context.

One of the practical aims of her research was to establish an Irish university art collections

association in order to enable Irish university art curators to be be supported and promoted

professionally and to communicate at an international level with bodies such as UMAC.

4) Stephanie Chinneck

Macquarie University, Australia Paper Title: Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up For Your Rights!

Bio: Stephanie is a master’s student at Macquarie University in Sydney undertaking her first year of

a two year Museum Studies degree. Last year she graduated with a BSc/BA hons. with a focus on

Museum Studies, Ancient History, and Palaeontology. Following the announcement of the university

to close the museum studies programme Stephanie has found herself at the fore-front of the fight to

overturn this decision, writing countless letters and leading various protest actions. Her experience

with this campaign has been a steep learning curve in the arts of diplomacy and protest. This

experience has informed the paper that she is presenting to the conference.

Session 5

Theme 1 – Sustaining Museums

1) Brenda Martin Dorich House Museum, Kingston University, UK

Paper Title: A Core Service to the University? Dorich House

Bio: Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University and Associate

Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston. Her research interests are on

the domestic interior in the first half of the twentieth century, with reference to identity and memory.

Recent publications are ‘Spaces without walls: the Veranda in Colonial Singapore’ in Domestic

Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns, Ed. G. Downey (Berg,

forthcoming 2012), General Introduction, Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior, Eds. Fisher,

Keeble, Lara Betancourt, Martin (Berg, 2011) and ‘Photographs of a Legacy’, The Modern Period

Room: The Construction of the Exhibited Interior 1870-1950, Eds. Keeble, Martin, Sparke (Routledge,

2006). She began the Dorich House Conference series in 1999, which explores issues arising from

Dora Gordine, her life as a female artist, and the Dorich House Museum and its place in modern

English architecture.

2) Anne Vahatalo

Department of Engineering, Design and Production, Aalto University, Finland

Paper Title: Case Alvar Aalto architecture in Aalto University - Refusing to Stand Still Aside

Bio: Anne Vähätalo is an Architect (M. Sc., 2010) from Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto

University) and research assistant at Aalto University on the project 'scientific and historical

collections of Aalto University'. Her main interests are the history of architecture, specializing in

restoration and re-use of modern architecture and interiors (Alvar Aalto, Heikki and Kaija Sirén), and

the history of building technology.

3) Suzanne Bravery The Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia

Paper Title: Pushing the Limits: A Sustainable Museum for Which Community?

Bio: Suzanne Bravery is the manager of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne. Prior

to this she was General Manager, Programs and Services with Museums & Galleries NSW (2008-

June 2011) and Curator with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (1986-2008). Her research interests

are house museums and museums and the community. She is currently completing her doctorate on

heritage values and house museum interiors.

4) Foo Su Ling NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paper Title: Philanthropy and Partnership: Programming the NUS Baba House

Bio: Foo Su Ling is a curator at NUS Museum. Her projects include Working the Tropical Garden

(2010); Materializing the Figure (2010); Southeast Asian Ceramics: New Light on Old Pottery (2009).

In her administrative and curatorial capacities at the NUS Baba House, she has also initiated and

curated a number of projects including Of Fingerbowls & Hankies: Chris Yap voyeurs through the

Baba House (2009); Capturing the Straits: Painting and Postcard Views from the 19th and Early 20th

Centuries (2012).

Session 5

Theme 2 – Objects in Contexts

1) Jose Eleazar R. Bersales University of San Carlos Museum, University of San Carlos, Philippines

Paper Title: Museum Education Through Archaeology: The Case of Cebu, Central Philippines

Bio: Jose Eleazar R. Bersales is an archaeologist based in the University of San Carlos Museum,

while at the same time serving as heritage and museums consultant to the governor of Cebu

Province in the Philippines. He also serves as director of USC Press and the USC Kabilin Heritage

Studies Center, the research and education arm of USC Museum. As governor's consultant for

museum affairs, he serves as director of Museo Sugbo, the Cebu Provincial Museum. He has been

conducting archaeological excavations in Cebu since 1992 and has published the results in the

journal Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society as well as in a local daily through a weekly column

where he writes. He holds the rank of Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the

USC Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History. He sits on the board of the National

Committee on Museums (NCOM) under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

He has donated to private museums, including the Bank of the Philippine Islands Museum Cebu and

Bank of the Philippine Islands Museum Zamboanga, as well as three government-run museums in

Cebu.

2) Gina Hammond

Macquarie University, Australia

Paper Title: Approaches to Culturally Sensitive Materials

Bio: Gina Hammond is a PhD candidate in the Museum Studies Programs, in the Dept of

Environment and Geography at Macquarie University. As well as working in this program, she has

worked in a number of university museums and collections.

3) Ally Halliwell Macquarie University, Australia

Paper Title: Archaeological Material; Research Tools or Museum

Bio: Ally is a PhD student in Museum Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. Her

research focuses on Neolithic ceramics from northeast Thailand. She also currently works as a

researcher and collection manager in a private museum and has previously worked in curatorial and

exhibition development. Her interests include understanding how intangible heritage is interpreted in

the archaeological record and how contemporary community groups can apply soft power to reaffirm

their connection with local history in archaeological museums and education centres.

4) Maria Angelica Viceral Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

Paper Title: Presence and/or Invisibility - Interrogating Manila-based University Museum Education

Programs

Bio: Ms. Angelica Viceral is doing her graduate studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman

under the Art History program. She is a young educator, teaching Art History and Humanities subjects

at the De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts in Manila. Her research

interests include community/socially engaged arts in urban settings. She advocates for the

importance of creating holistic and sustainable programs in art education for youths.

Session 6

Theme 1 – Sustaining Museums

1) Mei-Fang Kuo Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Paper Title: Interpretation of University Campus Transformation Through Cross-Disciplinary Creativity – a Case of National Cheng Kung University Museum

Bio: Mei-Fang Kuo is assistant curator at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Museum and

assistant researcher at Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences NCKU. She is also

adjunct assistant professor at National Tainan University. She majored in architecture and earned a

Master of Urban Planning from National Taiwan University. After that, she worked as assistant curator

at Exhibition Division, National Museum of Natural sciences (1986~1993). During this period she was

in charge of the permanent exhibition of the PhaseⅢHall (6 major themes). She was also the primary

researcher that led the reconstruction of the Chinese Song dynasty ancient astronomical water clock

in full scale, which is a permanent main exhibition piece in the NMNS. She received her Ph.D. in

architecture history & theory in 2007 from NCKU and has worked at NCKUM since then, completing 7

exhibitions during this period. Her research interests include museum exhibition, cultural heritage,

Taiwan traditional architecture and Taiwan aboriginal architecture.

2) Atthasit Sukkham

Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University, Thailand Paper Title: Behind the Scenes at Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum on Curator Missions in 2011-

2012

Bio: Atthasit Sukkham has had a broad range of experience in prehistoric and historical ceramic

studies, maritime archaeology and museums throughout his career. He started as a research

assistant at Silpakorn University, being granted funding support by Thailand Research Funds

(Thailand), Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia), and Griffith University (Australia) for field surveys on

ancient rock arts, especially the relationship between maritime trade and trans-peninsula routes with

ancient rock art in “the research project on the relationship of the ancient through present culture for

the development of cultural and civilization database for GMS and Malay Peninsula Regions” (2009-

2010). Mr. Sukkham has been curator in research and educational promotion in the department of

Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University since 2011. He has conducted several

activities in these areas, most notably being classification of historical ceramic shards, research

projects on fieldwork, exhibitions and special talks. He has published in Thailand and international

journals regarding ceramic production, maritime archaeology and review of museum designs.

3) Dominick Verschelde Ghent University Zoology Museum, Belgium Paper Title: The Ghent University Zoology Museum: Respecting Old Materials

Bio: Dominick Verschelde studied Biology at Ghent University. He did his master’s dissertation in

Zoology on taxonomy and phylogeny of marine nematodes. He wrote over ten A1 articles in which he

described many new species. He is a referee for papers on this subject. Since 1997, he has been the

curator/scientist at the Zoology Museum, and has opened the museum to cater to a larger public base

(visits on demand, temporary exhibitions). He conducts practical courses and lessons for many

students within the museum. He supervises bachelor dissertations on science communication and

research in the collection. He truly believes that critical reasoning and the scientific method should be

made available to everyone, and thus started to organize fun workshops for all ages on the use of the

senses, the difficulty of making objective observations and critical reasoning. He has known UMAC

from its early years since its founding in Paris on the aspirations of Peter Stanbury.

4) Anna Rivett Art & Heritage Collection, University of Adelaide, Australia

Paper Title: Disaster Preparedness: Security Against Obscurity

Bio: Anna Rivett has an Honours Degree in Classical Studies (majoring in Archaeology) from the

University of Adelaide and a Master of Philosophy (Museum Studies) from the University of Sydney.

Her Master’s thesis explored the influence of Aboriginal Keeping Places upon Australian museum

practices. Anna has worked with Art & Heritage Collections at the University of Adelaide since 2005

as the Collections Officer.

Session 6

Theme 2 – Museum, Technology, Virtual Spaces

1) Elena Corradini Museum Studies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Paper Title: From the Geophysical-Meteorological Observatory of the University of Modena and

Reggio Emilia

Bio: Elena Corradini is professor of Museology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, professor of

Monumental Buildings Restoration at Mechanical and Civil Engeneering Department, coordinator of

the Museum Studies area in the Doctoral School of Human Sciences, director of master in

“Cataloguing and Accessibility of Cultural Heritage” at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

She is chancellor delegate at the CRUI-Musei, board member of ICOM-UMAC and a freelance

journalist. From 1980 until 2004, she worked for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage as Director

Archaeologist coordinator at the Superintendecy of Modena and Reggio Emilia and at Regional

Direction of Emilia Romagna (Bologna). From 2004 until 2006, she worked for the Italian Ministry of

Cultural Heritage at the General direction for Archeological Heritage and after that, at the General

direction for Architectural and Environmental Heritage as Director of Service III Studies and General

Affairs. She took part in and co-ordinated many research projects, directed several excavations and

restoration sites, and curated and managed exhibitions. She was in charge of series of books and is

the author of almost 170 publications. Her main research interests are history of collections and

museums, history of restoration of monuments, and organisation of museums, paying specific

attention to conservation, documentation, exhibitions and valorisation of cultural heritage, assisted by

the use of new digital and computer technologies.

2) Elizabeth Pascale Art & Heritage Collections, University of Adelaide, Australia

Paper Title: Open Collections: Engaging in New Ways to Connect

Bio: Elizabeth Pascale is currently Special Projects Officer of Art & Heritage Collections at the

University of Adelaide, following her role as Collections Officer of the same department. She was

previously Gallery Director of the Adelaide Central Gallery after completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts

degree and a Master of Arts (Curatorial & Museum Studies) degree in Adelaide.

3) Yves Thomas University of Nantes, France

Paper Title: Organisation of Digital Preservation of Contemporary Scientific Heritage

Bio: Yves Thomas is an Emeritus Professor at Polytech/Université de Nantes in France. His research

is concerned with automatic control, signal processing and multimedia systems. He has been in

charge of different multidisciplinary schools of engineering. For seven years, he was appointed as

regional director of research and technology at the French Ministry of Research. He has had a ten-

year involvement in the safeguarding of the contemporary scientific and technical heritage, mainly in

the development of associated multimedia products. Catherine Cuenca, co-author of this research, is

Conservateur en chef du patrimoine and marine biologist. From 1982 to1996, she was director of the

Natural Scientific Museum in Nantes (France). Since 1996, she has been in charge of a regional

program aimed at safeguarding the contemporary scientific heritage at the University of Nantes.

Since 2004, at the Musée du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris, she has also been in

charge of the national program to safeguard French material and immaterial scientific and technical

heritage.

4) Jaye McKenzie Clarke Macquarie University, Australia

Paper Title: Museum Literacy that is Virtually Engaging

Bio: Jaye McKenzie-Clark is a ceramic specialist and Education Officer at the Museum of Ancient

Cultures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Following a career as a commercial potter,

Jaye's doctoral research was based on pottery found at Pompeii in Italy, where she has worked as an

archaeologist for over 14 years. Her current research, in collaboration with Professor

John Magnussen in the Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, has pioneered

the use of Dual Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) to analyse the structure and composition of

ancient ceramics. In contrast to traditional investigative techniques, DECT is totally non-destructive, an

important factor when analysing valuable and irreplaceable ancient artefacts.

5) Tonya Nelson Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, UK

Paper Title: University Museums: A Space for Experimentation

Bio: Tonya Nelson is Manager of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College

London. In this role, she has supervised a range of interdisciplinary, cross departmental partnerships

with stakeholders across the university. Prior to this, she was Head of Governance and Planning at

London Transport Museum and sat on the governing council of the UK Museums Association. Tonya

was selected to be a British Council Cultural Leadership International Fellow in 2010 and Clore

Leadership Fellow in 2011. She currently sits on the Executive Board of the UK University Museums

Group. Prior to entering the cultural sector, Tonya was a corporate attorney and management

consultant. She holds degrees in public policy, law and history of art.

Conference Day 3

Friday, 12 October 2012

National Library Building, Victoria Street

Session 7 – The University and the Museum

1) Michael Robinson Hong Kong Museum of Education, Hong Kong

Paper Title: Museums Beyond Boundaries – Evolving a Public Presence

Bio: Michael Robinson is the founding Director of The Hong Kong Museum of Education, a public

museum devoted to the research and exhibition of themes relating to the history of education in Hong

Kong and South China.

2) Mirna Heruc

Art & Heritage Collections, University of Adelaide, Australia

Paper Title: University Collections: The Frontier or The Margin

Bio: Mirna has spent most of her career in the cultural sector working on collections, art projects and

cultural material both tangible and intangible. For 10 years, she worked in the area of multicultural

arts as Executive Director of Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre. In 2004, she accepted a position as Art

& Heritage Collections Manager, University of Adelaide – a newly created position with responsibility

for the care and development of University collections and curation of culturally and academically

relevant activities to highlight and promote these collections to the broader community. She actively

contributes to the development of the broader museum and collection sector through her position and

participation on boards and steering committees of several cultural institutions and professional

networks.

3) Ondřej Dostal Mendel Museum, Masaryk university, Czech Republic

Paper Title: Mendel Museum - Five Years of Experiences

Bio: Ondřej has worked as director of Mendel museum of Masaryk university. He is interested in

museum laws, new trends in exhibiting and the role of university museums in academic

environments. He is the author of several exhibitions.

Session 8 – The University and the Museum

1) Ying Zhou Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre, Singapore Paper Title: Objects of Knowledge: Two Cases of Presentations from Architecture Education

Bio: Ying Zhou is an architect and researcher at the Urban Design Resources and Strategies Module

of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), ETH Singapore Center, where she is focusing on the urban

transformation processes in the cities of East Asia. Before joining the FCL, she was lecturer and

researcher with ETH Studio Basel 2007-2011, where she taught urban research on Kolkata,

Damascus and Cairo and produced a comic book about Metrobasel. She was part of an exhibit on

the contemporary urban developments in the Middle East at Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2010 and

has published in Critical Planning, Urban China, Transcultural Studies, amongst others. She has

taught and practiced in New York, Shanghai, Detroit, Boston and Basel. Born in Shanghai, she holds

a B.S.E. in Architecture and Engineering from Princeton, M.Arch from the Graduate School of Design

at Harvard and was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Stuttgart.

2) Shabbir Hussain Mustafa NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore Paper Title: Clandestine Interventions: Notes from the NUS Museum

Bio: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa is Curator with the NUS Museum. His research interests are in modern

South and Southeast Asian history. Within a broader framework of the archival-curatorial method

being developed at the NUS Museum, his approach has centred heavily on deploying archival texts

as ploys in engaging different modes of thinking and writing, all in an attempt at opening up the

archive to multivariate struggles of perception and reading. Some exhibitions that Mustafa has

recently curated include: Persistent Visions | Erika Tan (2009); Archives and Desires: Selections from

the Mohammad Din Mohammad Collection (2009); and Camping and Tramping through the Colonial

Archive: The Museum in Malaya (2011).

3) Sébastien Soubiran University of Strasbourg, France

Paper Title: Desperately Seeking Research on Science and Technology University Museums

Bio: Sebastien Soubiran is head of museum policy of the University of Strasbourg and an associate

researcher in history of science. His research area is the social history of physics in the 20th century,

as well as scientific heritage and university collections and museum studies. He is currently working

on the renovation of the museum of zoology at the University of Strasbourg into a natural history

museum with a STS perspective.

Soraya Boudia is professor in history and sociology of science of the University of Paris Est. Former

director of the Curie Museum in Paris (from 1999 to 2003), her main area of research has been the

history of radioactivity and its applications. She currently studies the global expertise and regulation of

nuclear risks and environmental hazards. Her other field of studies is university museum and

collections with a STS perspective.

Poster Presentations

Friday, 12 October 2012

National Library Building, Victoria Street

1) Suk Yee Lai Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Poster Title: Divine Power: Tradition Merging Into Modern

Bio: Lai Suk Yee has been working at the Art Museum for more than 30 years. She is familiar with

the operation of the museum in many aspects including its management, sponsorship, research,

exhibitions, outreach programmes, and all activities related to its exhibitions. Ms Lai's research

focuses on Chinese ceramics, in particular the Yue green ware of the Tang to Song period and the

Yixing Aisha ware of the Ming and Qing periods. She has published many articles on these topics.

The outreach program for the dragon exhibition at her museum this year has occupied much of her

energy, attention and thoughts, hence she would like to share her experience with as many

colleagues as possible in the art field.

2) Lawrence Chin

The Conservation Studio, Singapore

Poster Title: Extending the Useful Life of a Public Sculpture

Bio: Lawrence Chin has been a conservator with The Conservation Studio, an independent studio

located at the National University of Singapore Museum since 2008. He is also a part-time lecturer at

LASALLE College of the Arts. His previous work experience was with the Heritage Conservation

Centre, National Heritage Board (1995 – 2008).

3) Ho Pik Ki Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Poster Title: Tracing the Origin: To Preserve the Distinct Identity of the University Museum in

Globalisation

Bio: Peggy Pik Ki Ho is Research Associate at the Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong

Kong (hereafter CUHK). She studies history of Chinese calligraphy and its cultural and social

implications on the late Imperial China. She acquired Bachelor and M. Phil. Degrees at CUHK, then

furthered her studies at the Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, completing

her PhD dissertation in 2011. She has obtained many scholarships including Bei Shan Tong

Foundation Scholarship for Overseas Study, Hong Kong (2004), Shin-yun Scholarship (NTU, 2004),

Fu Si-nian Scholarship (Academia Sinica, 2005-2006), Jian-huei Scholarship (NTU, 2006) and

Doctoral Dissertation Award in Humanities and Social Sciences (National Science Council, Executive

Yuan, Taipei, 2009). Peggy Ho is interested in methodology and writing of art history, publishing

essays like Some Critical Thoughts on Connoisseurship of Chinese Calligraphy (Taipei, 2004), Some

Critical Thoughts on Writing of History of Painting and the Formation of Paradigm: a Case Study of

Huang Shen’s Colour Landscape (Beijing, 2006), The Characteristics and Formation of Model-

calligraphy of Zhang Zhao and his Influence (Hong Kong, 2008) and Some Critical Thoughts on the

Formation of the Fame of a Calligrapher: a Case Study of Yongxing (Nanjing, 2010). Peggy Ho has

attended many international conferences held in Shanghai (2003), Taipei (2004), Heidelberg (2006),

Beijing (2009) and Nanjing (2009), etc.

4) Hsin-Chen Chang National Cheng Kung University Museum, Taiwan

Poster Title: Two Different Kinds of Faces of University Museums

Bio: Dr. Hsin-chen Chang received her doctorate in History from the National Taiwan University

(NTU) with a focus on Taiwan Science History. She is currently an assistant researcher at the

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Museum and is responsible for exhibit planning and

research on NCKU history. Dr. Chang has a long-term career interest in the development of Taiwan’s

intellectual associations and expertise in East Asia science history research, exhibit planning,

scientific instrument identification and categorization, digital library maintenance and utilization,

documentary film production, and oral history documentation and archiving. While doing post-doctoral

research at NTU, Dr. Chang developed NTU’s Heritage Hall of Physics, produced documentary

videos and served as a member of the NTU Museums planning team. In addition to current academic

research and exhibit planning responsibilities, Dr. Chang develops NCKU Museum related courses

and develops and produces documentary videos on NCKU history.

5) Isabel Garcia Malet

University of Barcelona Poster title: The Virtual Museum of the University of Barcelona

Bio: Isabel Garcia Malet is a graduate in Philosophy and Arts from the University of Barcelona and

has worked at this university in the field of culture for more than 20 years. She is now co-ordinator of

the University of Barcelona Museum Project and other cultural projects.

Her research co-authors include: Lourdes Cirlot is Professor in History of Art and Vice-Rector for Arts,

Culture and Heritage at the University of Barcelona. He is the main Researcher of the investigation

group of Art, Architecture and Digital Society. Santiago Vallmitjana Rico is Professor at the Applied

Physics and Optics Department of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. He is the

author/co-author of more than one hundred scientific papers related to optics and photonics and

member of several scientific societies. He is now vice-dean of the Physics Faculty and has been

responsible for its scientific instrument collection since 2004.