15th November 2018 | Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUHNAC-UL)
9.30h Opening Ceremony: José Pedro Sousa Dias (Director MUHNAC-UL/ IHC – NOVA FCSH )
Opening Conference
Christine Lorre Musée d’Archeologie National (France)/ Senior curator – Comparative Archaeology
World Archaeology at the French National Museum of Archaeology (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France): Reassessment of ancient collections for new insights in archaeology.
10.30h-11h Coffee Break
11h – Session 1
Biographies of objects and collections: methodological challenges (I)
Chair: Maria de Fátima Nunes
Maria da Luz Sampaio Integrated researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH
Against obsolescence of the technical-industrial objects: the methodological analysis to restore their trajectory
Joana d’Oliva Monteiro Instituto de História de Arte, Univ. Nova de Lisboa
‘Uses’, modifications and (re)contextualizations: the Panels of St. Vincent of Lisbon
Bruno A. Martinho European University Institute, Florence, CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, Lisbon
How historians disentangle things (and how to entangle them back again)
12.00h- 12.30h Debate
12.30-14h Lunch
14h – Session 2
Biographies of objects and collections: methodological challenges (II)
Chair: Ana Cristina Martins
Luis Pequito Antunes Integrated researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH – CEHFCi – Univ. Évora
The African Elephants of the Museum «Dr. Álvaro de Castro», Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. One object, several stories
Paulo Costa Museu Nacional de Etnologia
Can we really make them talk? On ethnographic objects and field research
Thierry Aubry Fundação Côa Parque
Fariseu’s Rock nº1 “The Rosetta Stone” of the Côa Valley Palaeolithic Rock Art
Isabel Tissot Archeofactu
When corrosion tells stories about wear and tear of objects
15h- 15.30h Debate
15.30- 16h Coffee Break
16h – Session 3
The Global Life of Things: Outputs
Chair: Marta Lourenço
Samuel Gessner CIUHCT – Univ. de Lisboa/Univ. Nova de Lisboa
Manual and mental exercise: a mathematical instrument in early modern Lisbon
Inês Gomes CIUHCT – Univ. de Lisboa
The life of teaching collections or how can historical collections unveil pedagogical practices?
Rita Gaspar Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto
The who, the how and the when: opening (old) museum deposits to current Science
Quintino Lopes Integrated researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH – CEHFCi – Univ. Évora
Scientific instruments: following the “The Money Trail”
17- 17.30h Debate
16th November 2018 – Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (MNA)
9.30h Opening Ceremony: António Carvalho (Director MNA)
9.30h Session 1
Archaeological Museums: Documentation of archaeological objects and collections (I)
Chair: António Carvalho
Rui Parreira Direcção Regional de Cultura do Algarve /Uniarq – Univ. Lisboa
Object, context and record – uses and senses of the “archaeological data”
Isabel Pinto Câmara Municipal de Elvas
The beginnings of the former Archeologic and Etnographic Museum of Elvas António Tomaz Pires colletion (1880-1901)
Maria João Vasconcelos Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
Archaeological objects in the path of Museology and Museography. The Allen Collection at National Museum of Soares dos Reis.
10.30-11h Debate
11h Coffee Break
11.30h – Session 2
Archeological Museums: Documentation of archaeological objects and collections (II)
Chair: António Carvalho
Virgílio Lopes Campo Arqueológico de Mértola
From the archaeological excavation to the museum. The case of Mértola.
Elisabete Pereira Integrated researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH – CEHFCi – Univ. Évora
The history of archaeological collectors, collections and museums: from archives to objects
Maria de Jesus Monge Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança
Giving objects another chance.
12.30h Debate
13-14.30h Lunch
14.30-15.30h Conference
Luís Raposo ICOM Europa/Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
From “object” to “archaeological”, from “past” to “present” and from “field” to “museum”: reinvention processes
15.30h Round table
Objects (In)visibilitys on display: science comunication challenges
Chair: Elisabete Pereira
Marta Lourenço (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência – Univ. Lisboa)
António Carvalho (Museu Nacional de Arqueologia – DGPC)
Graça Filipe (IHC – NOVA FCSH, Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal)
Pedro Casaleiro (Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra)
Luís Raposo (ICOM Europe/Museu Nacional de Arqueologia – DGPC)
16.30h Debate
17h Closing ceremony
Closing coffee ‘break’
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