PAPER FROM THE EAST The second Chinese Heritage Conference Friday 7th October 2011, 9.00am-5.15pm

PAPER FROM THE EAST
The second Chinese Heritage Conference
Friday 7th October 2011, 9.00am-5.15pm

At the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
中国文化遗产保护系列研讨会2：纸系东来，2011年10月7日大英国家海事博物馆


China Culture Connect, Artability Art & Collection Ltd in association with the National Maritime Museum

Tickets: Full ￡99 Student ￡75 inclusive of lunch and refreshment
****Early Bird Full ￡87 Student ￡70 until 20th September 2011

Delegates will also be given a talk on the new NMM exhibition ‘ Traders: the East India Company and Asia’ and have the opportunity to visit the new Traders Gallery and the Sammy Ofer Wing.
Register now:artability.art@googlemail.com Online tickets http://www.artability-art.com/tickets/

Programme at the Lecture Theatre of the National Maritime Museum
Time 7th October Subject Speaker
9.00am-9.30am Registration
9.30am- 9.45am Introduction Welcome and introduction
Dr Margarette Lincoln, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum
Velson Horie and Xuhua Zhan
9.45am – 10.15am Talk 1 Conservation and preparation of objects for the Traders Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Birthe Christensen
10.20am-10.50am Talk 2 Korean Paper, Hanji, Its History, Technique and Properties Minah Song
10.55am-11.05am Special talk Technical Developments in Glazing for Friable and Fragile Collections Julie Heath (Tru V ue)
11.10am- 11.30am Tea Break
11.30am-12.00pm Talk 3 The Papermaker’s Mould in Middle-Eastern Papermaking: An Aid for the Classification of Papers Helen Loveday
12.05pm-12.35pm Talk 4 Funori, a Consolidation Method for Chinese Wallpapers Susan Catcher
12.40pm-12.50pm Introduction of the new Traders Gallery Dr John McAleer
12.50pm-14.20pm Lunch Lunch at the Queen’s House Orangery and Parlours Delegates can visit the new Traders gallery
14.20pm-14.50pm Talk 5 Japanese Paper for Art and Conservation Megumi Mizumura
14.55pm-15.25pm Talk 6 Chinese paintings on Pith – A Paper Conservator’s Approach Ruth Prosser
15.30pm-15.50pm Tea Break
15.50pm-16.20pm Talk 7 Origins and Typology of Paper in Chinese and Tibetan Manuscripts from Dunhuang Dr Agnieszka Helman-Wa¿ny
16.25pm-16.55pm Talk 8 The Coming of Asian Papers to America Sidney Berger
17.00m- 17.30pm Film Screening Developments in Hand Papermaking Through the Centuries


Speakers
Sidney E Berger – Librarian, Peabody Essex Museum

Susan Catcher– Senior Paper Conservator, Victoria & Albert Museum

Birthe Christensen – Head of Conservation & Preservation, National Maritime Museum

Dr Agniezka Helman-Wa¿ny – Paper conservator and manuscriptologist, University of Hamburg and Cornell University

Helen Loveday– Independent paper conservator

Dr John McAleer – Curator of 18 Century Imperial & Maritime History, National Maritime Museum

Megumi Mizumura – Paper conservator, paper making specialist, British Museum

Ruth Prosser– Independent paper conservator, pith paper specialist

Minah Song – Paper conservator, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)

Documentary Film: Developments in Hand Papermaking Through the Centuries, 29 minutes ( Director, Elaine Koretsky ), International Paper Museum


Coordinator and moderator
Velson Horie
velson.horie_at_manchester.ac.uk