EVENTS
Pictures in Public: Online Collections, Research and Public Engagement
07 October 2009
Professor Evelyn Welch, Director of the AHRC’s Beyond Text Programme and
Professor Roger Ainsworth, Master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford
in association with the AHRC
Pictures in Public
Online Collections, Research and Public Engagement
St Catherine’s College, Manor Road, Oxford
10-11 September 2009
The Pictures in Public: Online Collections, Research and Public Engagement conference was the result of The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) initiative to explore methods of bridging transatlantic cultures through pubic engagement with the arts. It is follows the “Picturing the Nation” conference that took place in Washington D.C. on 23 October 2008, which was sponsored jointly by the NEH and AHRC. The purpose of the Washington D.C. conference was to foster scholarly collaboration and research in the humanities and featured presentations on how art can illuminate a nation’s history. The 2009 Pictures in Public conference considered the theme of collaboration in the humanities by addressing the role of online public collections in promoting research and public engagement. A full report will soon be available here.
Shearer West, Head of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council and Thomas Phelps, Director of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities provided opening words for the conference and are here pictured in the garden of St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Sixty participants attended the conference and represented the following institutions:
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
BBC
Bridgeman Art Library
The British Museum
Christie’s
Courtuald Institute
Intelligent Heritage
King’s College London
Museums Galleries of Scotland
McMannus Galleries and Museum
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Gallery
National Museums, Northern Ireland
National Museum of Wales
The National Portrait Gallery
The National Trust
Oxford Brookes University
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Proquest
Public Catalogue Foundation
Royal Academy of Arts
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Tate
Tate Modern
Technology Strategy Board
University of Glasgow
University of Oxford
Wikimedia UK