Week 8
20 Monday February Strategies for Introducing and Embedding a New Museum Ethics in the Museum Sector, Marstine and Dodd. 3-5PM
21 Tuesday Nominated to and accepted to Brown Bag Seminar Coordination for next year.
22 Wednesday Brown Bag Speaker: Chris Collins NHM Title: From Homer to Genocide Sponsors: Dave Unwin, Gudrun Whitehead -also- Museum Studio Reading Group: Seminar Leader: Cintia Velazquez
AND: Student Meeting SSCC.
MS and SSCC were moved from 29 to 22 due to Teatopia fundraiser conflict. I was not in attendance of 'Teatopia' due to previous arrangements for the 29th.
23 Thursday February London British Library Research and ‘Bingo’ Night at the Young Vic.
24 Friday Caught up on personal Journal work.
25/26 Weekend: Review of data for monitor readings. Email. Intensive work on ‘gift exchange’ research paper.
Week 9
27 Monday: Intensive work on ‘gift exchange’ research paper.
28 Tuesday: Intensive work on ‘gift exchange’ research paper.
29 Wednesday: Brown Bag Seminar Speaker: Mike Pickering, National Museums Australia Title: "Voices from the Wilderness: the Canning Stock Route" Sponsors: Janet Marstine, Elee Kirk--Also, today is Leap Day: I journeyed to London to review materials at the library, and then conduct 'field research' at The Lexington.
01 March Thursday: Intensive work on ‘gift exchange’ research paper.
02 Friday: Special Topics Seminar: Jan Ramirez, director of the under-construction 9/11 Museum.
03/04 Weekend: Intensive work on ‘gift exchange’ research paper. Sunday: Dinner Interview with Professor Susan Pearce and Dr. Vivian Golding.
Week 10 March
05 Monday: Raw transcription of last night's interview and drafted edit of the interview write-up for afterword of forthcoming publication.
06 Tuesday: Volunteered to gather abstracts for Research Week presentations. Sent paper on Museum Display as Gift Exchange to Sandra.
07 Wednesday: observed the MA research exercise at the Herbert, 7:45-17:00. Interesting discussion with Marcus Weisen.
08 Thursday: Continued personal research at the Herbert. (Leicester was quite full of people and security due to the Queen, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visitation)
09 Friday: Revisions to the forthcoming publication/interview working with Viv and Petrina. Scanned took notes etc. for book I needed to return to library, then returned book to library.
10/11 Weekend: I can’t believe the monitoring tasks are almost over. Worked on draft APG report. Caught up on emails and reviewed monitoring data.
Week 11 March
12 Monday: Worked on draft APG report.
13 Tuesday: London Research at Maps and went to talk given by friend at UCL Met with retiring librarian Geoff Armitage at the British Library Maps Room to discuss history of display of the maps collection and possible maps for case study (a very productive conversation). Was referred to head of department Peter Barber for further inquires. 6PM: Institute for Archaeology. Piotr Bienkowski (University of Manchester), speaking engagement with Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) for Crystal Bennett Memorial Lecture. Completed scheduling arrangements with Prof. Bienkowski for one of the Brown Bag sessions for 2013.
14 Wednesday MA Association meeting Museums Association Members Meeting 2012 at New Walk: Particularly rewarding discussions with Liz Johnson from the Arts Council (about the application process), with Steve LeMotte Executive Director of EMMS (recommended I have a chat with Graham Black), with Janet Ulph and with Maurice Davies (Ethics Workshop and Debrief Workshop). Brilliant opening and closing by Vanessa Travelyan (President MA) and words by Mark Taylor, Director of the MA.
-Also- in the midst of the MA meeting day I managed to attend a bit of Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Morgan, University of Manchester PhD Title: 'Change and Everyday Practice at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study' Richard Sandell, Mona Al Ali
End of the day: Museum Studio: Helen Wilkinson Presenting.
*NOTE: I was supposed to meet for a supervision with Sandra today but she is quite ill—has been since Monday. We will need to reschedule.
15 Thursday March Deinstallation support for RCP Exhibition and ‘finding brackets’ for display cases in anticipation of MA exhibitions.
Sandra has rescheduled our next supervision for 19 April, 11AM.
16 Friday: Caught up on reading, made interview appointments for article research and object case study research at British Library with Peter Barber head of Maps at the British Library: for 12 April 2PM.
17/18 weekend: Sent E-cards for Mothering Sunday.
