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NACS Meeting
23rd November 2020 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
After successful meetings in St-Gallen, Zurich and Neuchâtel, the Network Arctic Collections Switzerland (NACS) invites all interested institutions and persons to this year’s event.
The NACS meeting will take place on Monday 23 November 2020 and online, due to the sanitary situation. The meeting offers insights into the history of Arctic collections in various Swiss museums and reflections on different Arctic topics (see programme below). As always, there will be opportunities for interdisciplinary exchanges between participating institutions and individuals.
You can participate with the following Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/93609123716?pwd=QXp6bzV4MGVQY0gvMXM4V2F4MVdSUT09
Password: 827678
Programme of the event
09:45 Zoom call opens
10:00 Welcome and Introduction Martha Cerny, Museum Cerny
10:15 50 Jahre Eiskerntiefbohrungen in Grönland – Eine Zeitreise durch die (Klima-)Geschichte Prof. Hubertus Fischer, University of Bern
11:00 CITES-related Issues in the Arctic Bruno Mainini, Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (BLV)
11:45 Vor Engel und Haller – Wie die Arktis in die Schweiz fand Martin Schultz, Museum Cerny
12:15 Break
14:15 Swiss Arctic Collectors – A Comparative Overview Florian Gredig, NONAM, Zürich
14:45 «They come and ask: Where is your home?» Art Museum of the North – Issues of Language, Land and Power in Exhibition-Making Selma Green, Konstmuseet I Norr, Kiruna, Sweden
15:30 Artist’s Talk via ZOOM with the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
16:15 Closing of the presentations
16:30 Closing of the meeting