Events – European Academic Heritage Day 2016
18 November 2016
The theme for 2016 is “University Heritage at War”
2016 is located in the middle of the centenary commemoration of World War I in which many museums and universities are involved. This anniversary provides a context for a broader debate about universities, heritage and war through history. Current wars remind us that issues of heritage and war are not only of the past but equally important in the present. For the European University Heritage Day of 2016, UNIVERSEUM encourages reflection around the multifaceted theme of heritage and war, which includes issues such as collections used in and resulting from warfare, universities and university personnel and students involved in warfare and in peacekeeping, material evidence of war, war damage, commemoration of war at universities, collections and objects as war booty, war reparations, military surplus material, repatriation of heritage, and preservation of heritage in countries currently at war.
Announcement 2016 (PDF)
EVENTS
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Exhibitions
The Land Endures: Bringing "Sunset Song" to Life
University Life and World War One (Women and Medicine)
King’s Museum
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE
Conference
Anthropology and Monstruosity
Hrdlicka Museum of Anthropology
18 Novembre 2016
UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER
Launching of the Virtual exhibition:
"L’héritage de la guerre 1914/18"
18 Novembre 2016
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Back from the Dead: Curator Tour
Museum of the History of Science
18 November 2016, 12.30 pm
COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
Guided visits to the exhibition EUROPE for members of the academic community.
Fine Arts Faculty
18 November 2016, 11 pm
UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG
Special guided tour on instruments’ military context
Museum of Seismology
18 November 2016
UNIVERSITY OF PADUA
Archaelogy between the two World Wars
Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art
18 November 2016
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA
Exhibition on Spanish Civil War
Virtual Museum of University of Barcelona (MVUB)
Presentation of the exhibition
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, BIALYSTOK
Lecture, exhibition and more
Academic Heritage and war
Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy
18 November 2016
UNIVERSITE’ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES – ULB
Peas, beans, pods & colours
Network of ULB’s Museums – Ecomusée du Viroin, Treignes
20 November 2016
UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
Exhibition
La Faculté des sciences de Lille pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Espace Culture, University of Lille, Sciences and Technologies
4 January – 17 February 2016
UNIVERSITY OF RENNES 1
Guided visits to the collections
Campus de Beaulieu
19 November 2016
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Launching of the virtual exhibition
The University of Bucharest in 1916
Museum of University of Bucharest
18 November 2016