Programme
Wednesday 16 March
Approaches to Object Based Scholarship in the Art Museum
National Gallery
10.00 Coffee and registration
10.15 Introduction
10.30 Cataloguing and looking at paintings as physical objects
10.45 Understanding paintings as physical objects – the importance of condition
11.35 Crowdsourcing and online collection catalogues
12.00 Q&A session
12.30 Lunch (participants to make their own arrangements)
13.30 Approaches to collections research
14.00 Evaluating order flagyl online research databases – practical session
15.00 The Archives and Access Project
15.30 The Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue/CDA research on the Scharf archive
16.00 Close
Thursday 17 March
Researching Objects and Material Culture
British Museum
10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.45 Thinking with things and Reading Objects
11.30 Group Work on objects in PhD projects
12.30 Lunch (participants to make their own arrangements)
13.30 Finding Things – Databases and Documentation
14.15 Understanding how objects came to museums
15.15 Round table with current CDP students
16.00 Next Steps
16.30 Close
Friday 18 March
Researching Archives and Documents
The British Library
10.00 Registration
10.30 Introductions
11.00 How to research archives
11.30 Breakout sessions
13.00 Lunch (participants to make their own arrangements)
13.45 Using our catalogues for archival research
14.45 Tea
15.00 “How I learnt to stop worrying and love the archives!”
15.30 Closing remarks
15.45 Close