Programme

1. 20.06. Lost in Things?
AM: Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Keynote Lecture: Lost in Things - What we can expect from things - and what things expect from people
Project presentations of Participants
PM: “Secular” and “Sacred” Relics
Prof. Dr. Andrea Strübind (Theology, Oldenburg), Dr. Marianne Eeckhout (Curator Dordrechts Museum)

2. 21.06. Objects of attention, objects of neglect, mundane objects
AM Dr. Maria Rentetzi (NTU Athens; Lise Meitner fellow, University of Vienna)
The history of science in 100 boxes
PM: Drs Susanne Neugebauer (Archivist Fürstlich Salm-Salm'sches Archiv und Museum der Wasserburg Anholt)
“Keep the tires, keep the boxes!” Material aspects of documenting coherence and context in a personal archive
Presentation of cans and tins from the ‘Can Museum’, Groningen

3. 22.06. Legacy of things in museums and heritage institutions
Visit to Fries Verzetmuseum, Leeuwarden
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Büschel (RUG)
A skirt in the museum stacks: history of a meaningful fragile material object
Femke Knoop, MA (PhD student, University Groningen)
Fashion studies and the precariousness of textile heritage
Guided Tour Fries Museum, Leeuwarden

4. 23.06. Ruins and Remains
AM: Prof. Dr. Philip Schwytzer (University of Exeter)
"A tomb once stood in this room”: memorials to memorials
PM: Dr. Megan Williams (RUG)
From Rags to Letters – recycling and paper production in early modern Europe

5. 24.06. Secondhandedness and Recycling
AM: Dr. Ariane Fennetaux (University Paris VII)
Key note: Recycling dresses in the 18th century
Dr. Marta Kargol (independent scholar)
When fancy dress is not available: self-making in communist Poland