Program:

Thursday:

Introduction@Morgens Zielerstuen-Stakladen, 16:00-18:00
Ulrik Høj Johnsen, Ton Otto, Cameron David Warner, Taj Kalasha, Joe Nalo, and Kai Boma

Friday:

Collaboration @Moesgaard Museum, 9:00-12:00
Jennifer Deger (James Cook), Marie Vejrup Nielsen (Aarhus), Ton Otto with Ane Bonde Rolsted and Jenny Vijayarankan Husted (Aarhus and Moesgaard), Kasper Jelsbech Knudsen (Aarhus)

Transformation @Moesgaard Museum, 13:00-17:00
Haidy Geismar (Univ. College London), Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe-Universität), Karl-Heinz Kohl (Frobenius-Institut), Oscar Salemink (Copenhagen), Andrew Irving (Manchester)

Saturday:

Value and Iconoclasm @Moesgaard Museum 9:00-12:15
Clare Harris (Oxford), Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg (Copenhagen), Sophie Seebach (Aarhus and Moesgaard), Anders Emil Rasmussen (Moesgaard), Eric Venbrux and Anne Kjærsgaard (Radboud)

Final Plenary Discussion @Moesgaard Museum 13:00-14:30

Precious Relics: Materiality and Value in the Practice of Ethnographic Collection is a four-year collaborative research project with three research goals: 1) to study the history of religious artifacts for ethnographic collections in Denmark, 2) to conduct new ethnographic collection trips, and 3) to design four museum exhibitions, which will be collaborations between source communities and Denmark-based researchers. All three of these goals will serve to both engage the public in the value of ethnographic collection, as well as study how religious artifacts (their creation, destruction, and preservation) index changing social values.

Precious Relics is a collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.