Public Engagement and Special Collections
Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford
4th October 2019, 10.45-16.30
Through six presentations by academics, curators and education professionals, the Association of Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections will be exploring various approaches that are being developed in order to share special collections with the general public and the challenges and benefits of such activities.
All are welcome to attend.
Registration (includes tea/coffee and lunch):
£20 AMARC members / £15 AMARC student members / £25 non-members
Summary Programme
10.45-11.15 Tea/Coffee and Registration
11.15-11.30 Welcome and Introduction
11.30-12.00 Daniel Wakelin, St Hilda’s College, Oxford:
Urinals and hunting traps: exhibiting the ordinary
12.00-12.30 Stewart Brookes, Lincoln College, Oxford:
Getting medieval on social media
12.30-13.00 Raluca Radulescu, Bangor University
Bringing Arthurian legends into the classroom: rare Arthurian books and scholarly expertise in the primary and secondary curricula
13.00-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.15 AGM
14.15-14.45 Maddy Slaven, Head of Exhibitions and Public Engagement, Bodleian Libraries, and Rosie Sharkey, Education Officer, Bodleian Libraries:
Public engagement at the Bodleian: changes and challenges
14.45-15.15 Tuija Ainonen, Merton College / Bodleian Libraries:
Public engagement, web resources and social media: the Polonsky Foundation England and France Project at the British Library
15.15-15.45 Mary Wellesley, British Library:
Public engagement through adult learning
15.45-16.00 Concluding remarks
16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee
For full details, see:
https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/forthcoming-meetings/
