COMIC. Comissió d'Instruments Científics

Autopsies Research Project Study Day

Friday, 4 June 2010

University College London (UCL)

The Autopsies Project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth
century was transformed by the advent of new forms of media - the
typewriter, gramophone, and film, for example - the arrival of the
twenty-first century has brought with it the disappearance of many public
and private objects that only recently seemed essential to ‘modern life.’

Responding to recent work in cultural history, spatial studies, and 'thing

Museums and the Exhibitionary Complex in Central Europe, 1850-1939

The rise of the exhibitionary complex in nineteenth-century Germany,
France and Britain has been the subject of substantial amounts of
research. It has been rather less well explored in relation to central
Europe. The journal Centropa will therefore be publishing a special
issue on museums in Central Europe in 2012. The issue will be
examining the development of museums between 1850 and 1939 and their
contribution to processes of identity formation during the period in

Museums and the Exhibitionary Complex in Central Europe, 1850-1939

The rise of the exhibitionary complex in nineteenth-century Germany,
France and Britain has been the subject of substantial amounts of
research. It has been rather less well explored in relation to central
Europe. The journal Centropa will therefore be publishing a special
issue on museums in Central Europe in 2012. The issue will be
examining the development of museums between 1850 and 1939 and their
contribution to processes of identity formation during the period in

UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING
University Heritage: Present and Future
Museum Gustavianum
University of Uppsala, Sweden, 17-20 June 2010

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS