Young Forum for Collection and Object Research
Since 2016, the Coordination Office for Scientific University Collections in Germany has been organizing the workshop series "Young Forum for Collection and Object Research" together with the Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e.V. and partners at five German universities.
As part of the workshop series, young researchers working with material objects and collections discuss their research questions, methods and results. The workshop series creates a platform on which young researchers can network across disciplines and reflect on questions of object-based research (especially in scientific collections).
The Young Forum for Collection and Object Research is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Workshops:
- HU Berlin, 2016, Material culture in university and non-university collections, conference proceedings
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University of Göttingen, 2017, Object Cultures of Visualization. Instruments and practices, conference proceedings
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University of Tübingen, 2018, To the point! Object-scientific approaches to collection research, conference proceedings
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TU Dresden, 2019, Spurenlesen - Objektwissenschaftliche Ansätze der Sammlungsforschung aus disziplinärer und transdisziplinärer Perspektive, conference proceedings to be published at the end of 2020, conference proceedings
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University of Halle, 2020, A question of perspective. Objects as mediators of science, conference proceedings
Reading traces
Object-scientific approaches to collection research from disciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives
"Young Forum for Collection and Object Research" | Workshop Dresden 2019
| The results of the Dresden workshop have now been published under the title "Spurenlesen. Methodical Approaches to Collection and Object Research" as the 4th volume in the publication series "Young Forum for Collection and Object Research". The individual contributions can be accessed at: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/junges_forum. |
From 22 to 24 August 2019, the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, together with the Coordination Office for Scientific University Collections in Germany and the Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e.V. (GfU), organized the fourth workshop in the series "Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung". Under the title "Spurenlesen. Object Science Approaches to Collection Research from a Disciplinary and Transdisciplinary Perspective", doctoral students from all disciplines were invited to submit contributions researching on and about material objects or collections. From a broad field of applicants, 16 were invited to present their questions, methods and results on collection and object research. In an intensive interdisciplinary exchange between the early-career researchers and with invited experts from various disciplines, the different methodological approaches were compared and reflected upon. The program was complemented by a keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Peter Birkholz, who presented the results of the project "Fascination of speaking machines: Technological change in speech synthesis over two centuries". In a public evening lecture, Dr. Gorch Pieken, Head Curator, presented the concept of the opening exhibition of the Humboldt University of Berlin in the Humboldt Forum and spoke about the potential of university collections as transfer media.
The conference contributions will be published digitally by the Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e.V.; travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed. The first workshop, organized in 2016 by the Coordination Office for Scientific University Collections in Germany, has now been published online.