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Emotion in the Museum | Conference Programme
Friday 13 March 2020, 9.15AM to 14 March 5:30pm
Event postponed
For reasons connected with the continuing spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and following the recent withdrawal of a significant number of speakers for this and other reasons, the organisers have reluctantly decided to postpone the Emotion in the Museum conference, which was due to take place in York on 13th & 14th March 2020. We are sorry for the difficulties that this will cause for delegates. As organisers of the event, we remain committed to the conference and will make every effort to hold this at a future date
This two day conference to be held on 13-14 March 2020 is a collaborative event organised by the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) at the University of York and York Museums Trust.
How do museums feel? Which of their histories are emotive, for whom, and why? What kinds of emotions could or should be represented -- and evoked -- by engaging with history? How should emotional experiences be facilitated in museum and heritage spaces, and to what ends?
Please register via the University of York online store.
Please see further information regarding accommodation, travel, accessibility and our inclusion statement.
For the conference poster, please see our conference web page.
FRIDAY 13 MARCH
9.15-9.45 Registration (tea and coffee)
9.45-10 Welcome/Introduction
10–11.30 Sessions 1A and 1B
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1A: General Perspectives |
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Samantha Jenkins (People’s History Museum) |
Collecting emotive topics |
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Jennifer Pistella (Centre for the History of Emotions, QMUL) |
Emotional places: historic spaces, their emotional history and the origins of the Victorian preservation movement |
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Jordan Kistler (University of Strathclyde) |
What does fine art feel like? Emotions and classification in the Victorian museum |
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1B: Emotion and Museum Learning |
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Jane Cockcroft (Ashmolean Museum) |
Harnessing the imagination to emotionally engage: Imaginative Education in action in museums and heritage settings |
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Niamh Kelly and Clodagh Lavelle (Reimagine, Replay, Remake project) |
Emotion and Young People in the Museum |
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Martin Brandt Djupdræt (Den Gamle By) |
The role of atmosphere and emotions for wellbeing and learning: Best practices and research done at Den Gamle By and other open-air museums |
11.30-11.50 Break (tea, coffee, biscuits)
11.50–12.50 Plenary Prof. Laurajane Smith: Registers of Engagement: Emotion in the Museum
12.50-1.50 Lunch
1.50-3.20 Sessions 2A and 2B
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2A: Emotional Health and the Museum Workforce |
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Rachel Mackay (Historic Royal Palaces) |
Preparing Front of House Teams for Emotionally Impactful Exhibitions |
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Eleanor O'Keefe (Historic Royal Palaces) |
Working Emotions: the affective responses of heritage workers at the Tower of London, 2014 |
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Museum Wellness Network |
When stress is the emotion we feel most often |
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2B: Emotion and Everyday Life |
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Björg Sveinbjörnsdóttir and Vaida Bražiūnaite (Hversdagssafn Museum of Everyday Life, Westfjords, Iceland) |
Everybody’s ordinary is extraordinary |
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Els Veraverbeke (Het Huis van Alijn) |
The House of Alijn: a museum about emotions full of emotions |
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Alexander Scott (University of Wales Trinity St David) |
Memory, Nostalgia and the City: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence |
3.20-3.40 Break
3.40-4.40 Plenary Sara Wajid MBE
4.50–6.20 Sessions 3A and 3B
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3A: Emotional Engagements with Colonialism |
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Anna Vestergaard (SMK - National Gallery of Denmark & University of Copenhagen) |
Please do it for me? Affective work in the intersection of art and colonialism |
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Minju Oh (University of Leicester) |
How do Negative Emotions Play a Role in Difficult History Museum?: Shame and Anger toward Japanese Colonial Period History in South Korea |
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3B: Designing Emotional Experiences |
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Dan Johnson and Paul Forster (PLB Ltd) |
Make Them Feel It: Designing Emotional Experiences in Museums |
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Eithne Owens (Event Communications) |
Once upon a time: storytelling that reaches the heart |
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Pippa Nissen (Nissen Richards Studio) |
Evoking emotion through theatrical space |
6.30-7.20 Drinks Reception
SATURDAY 14 MARCH
9–10.30 Sessions 4A and 4B
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4A: Material Emotions |
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Alex Fitzpatrick (University of Bradford) |
The Sadness of Skin, the Banality of Bone: The Spectrum of Emotions Regarding Animal Remains on Display |
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Lauren Ryall-Waite (Roehampton University) |
Bodies of Emotion: Complicated legacies in anatomical displays |
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Layla Khoo and Iain Kelly (Independent, National Trust) |
The Change in Attitudes exhibition, National Trust, Nunnington Hall; A Case Study |
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4B: Risk and Care in the Museum Sector |
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Ellie Miles, Meg O’Mahony, Claire Mead and Lucy Moore |
#MeToo, sexual harassment and abuse in the museum workforce |
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Alexandra Woodall (University of Sheffield) |
Agendas of Care |
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Tamsin Russell (Museums Association) |
Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace |
10.30–10.50 Break (tea, coffee, biscuits)
10.50-12.20 Workshops
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Workshops |
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Lisa Baxter (The Experience Business) |
The Imaginarium of Everyday Things |
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Esther Graham and Tali Krikler (Freelance, Ryedale DC Arts and Culture) |
‘I am from Hama, famous for its water wheels…’: Exploring nostalgia, memory and the emotive object in practice |
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Emma Pegram (Academy of Medical Sciences) and Emily Scott-Dearing (Independent) |
The Departure Lounge: unlocking emotions and providing a safety net |
12.20–1.20 Lunch
Museum Detox Safe Space
1.20–2.50 Sessions 5A and 5B
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5A: Measuring Emotion |
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Jessica Hoare (Cardiff University) |
Framing Feeling: Understanding Emotional and Cognitive Processes in the Museum |
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Areti Damala (National de la Recherche Scientifique and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) |
“Difficult” heritage, emotions, learning and meaning-making |
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Erin Canning (Aga Khan Museum) |
Affect and museum collections information systems |
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5B: Emotion and Community |
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Elena Settimini and Alessio Francesco Palmieri-Marinoni (University of Sussex, University of Leicester |
Remixing roles in the museum co-production: Memories, stories and emotions from the Palio di Legnano |
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Poornima Sardana (Independent) |
The Hygge Heim Series in Delhi’s Museums |
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Gonul Bozoglu (Newcastle University) |
Museum-like displays as emotional assemblages: marginal memory and the Greek communities of Istanbul |
2.50–3 Short Break (tea, coffee, cake)
3–4 Plenary Dr Bernadette Lynch: ‘Emotion in museums: a critique and provocation’
4–5.30 Sessions 6A and 6B
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6A: Difficult/Divided Pasts and Emotion |
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Joanne Rosenthal (Freelance Curator and Consultant) |
‘Wonderful yet deeply saddening’: considering the emotional journey of the visitor through exhibitions dealing with difficult pasts |
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Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
Living trauma, emotion and the activist museum |
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Elizabeth Carnegie & Jerzy Kociatkiewicz |
Dances with Despots: exploring visitor engagement with the ‘ghosts’ of past regimes within Eastern Europe |
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6B: Institutional[ized] Experiences |
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Roz Currie and Lottie Tempest Mountford (Islington Museum) |
Emotion as Glue: How empathy allowed the Echoes of Holloway Prison project to connect |
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Sara McDowell (Ulster University) |
Unpacking the emotional labour of the present online: Remembering hidden histories |
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Cecilia Dahlbäck (Mittuniversitetet) |
How to read this silence? |
5.30 Close
Location: Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre, University of York
Admission: Registration is essential via the University online store
Email: emotioninthemuseum@gmail.com