9:00-9:30 — Registration and Refreshments

9:30-10:00 — Welcome and Introduction Day 2

10:00-11:30 — Session 5: Balancing the needs of Mixed Heritage Sites

What happens when heritages collide? How do we negotiate the various needs of human and wildlife and populations within the same environment?

Lead by the V&A

11:30-13:00 — Session 6: Working within the legacy of Historic Collecting and Conservation Practices

How have the legacies of collecting and conservation affected our work today?  How are we striving to overcome these issues and redefine our approaches?

Lead by the V&A

13:00-14:00 — Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 — Session 7: Future Focus

Opportunities for cross-disciplinary learning and innovation within natural and cultural preservation. How can we coordinate efforts and share best practices on a local, national and global level, across multiple preservation disciplines? How can themes around sustainability, advocacy and audience engagement be transferred from one area to another?

Lead by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

15:00-16:30 Session 8: Concluding Panel

CULTURE – NATURE – HERITAGE: COMMON PROBLEMS, JOINT SOLUTIONS

Reflecting on the papers of the conference, to address common problems of natural and cultural heritage preservation and discuss possible joint actions to tackle those problems. To get a clearer view of both the challenges and opportunities of thinking about natural and cultural preservation as two sides of the same coin.

Lead by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

9:00-9:30 — Registration and Refreshments

9:30-10:00 — Welcome and Introduction Day 1

10:00-11:30 — Session 1: Defining the Problem: Heritage in Historical Perspective.

Historical perspectives on processes of collection, acquisition and conservation of natural and cultural heritage; discussing the political past of museum objects.

Lead by the University of Pretoria

11:30-13:00 — Session 2: Assessing the Risk

Global climate change, poaching, theft and looting, urbanisation and many more. Identifying threats, prioritising action and engaging diverse perspectives. How do we measure and prioritise that which we are trying to protect, and who, when considering the diversity of world perspectives, decides?

Lead by the University of Pretoria

13:00-14:00 — Lunch break

14:00-15:30 — Session 3: Engagement and Action

Engaging communities, promoting sustainable economic development and establishing mutual benefit for people, their culture, wildlife, and the environment we all live in. Exploring home-grown solutions for global preservation issues.

Lead by Yale

15:30-17:00 — Session 4: Government and Citizen

Top-down and bottom-up approaches to protecting our natural and cultural heritage, interrogating the tension between government efforts and community needs. The potential of Citizen Science in Africa, including the FAIR principles and their implementation.

Lead by Yale

17:00-17:30 — Concluding Remarks

19:00 — Conference Dinner

Please check with organisers for precise times and details.

Arrival of organizers and speakers throughout the day with an evening welcome meeting / reception.

Venue - Room 1 - 24 Old Arts Building University of Pretoria Hatfield Campus

A series of presentations followed by a light tea.

Free event, book in advance.

9:00-9:20 Museum volunteers: the lifeline of museum accessibility - Mmutle Arthur Khokong (Pretoria Art Museum)

9:30-9:50 Museum occupational health and wellness policy - Hendryk Snyders (SA Rugby Museum: The Springbok Experience, Cape Town)

10:00-10:20 Archives Alive: digitisation of the Adler Archives - Lydia Pila (Adler of Museum of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand)

10:30-10:50 Absa corporate collection: Persian carpets - Dawn Roland (Absa corporate collection)

11:00-11:20 The South Africa Police Museum collection, Muizenberg - Siboniso Nkosi (South African Police Museum, Cape Town)

11:30-12:00 The benefits and rewards if public museums in South Africa were to manage their own hyperconnectivity - Salome LeRoux (UP alum, visual studies)