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Conferences to date:
Conference Name
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Date
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Images and Imagination of Impairment and Disability in the Hans-Würtz-Collection.
Keynote presentation at AHRC/DFG Conference Perspectives on UK/German Arts and Humanities Research at the Wellcome Collection London, UK.
13 May 2022
Professor Simon Mckeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg.
Images of Disability: The Hans Würtz Collection.
Lecture in Series of lectures: Behinderung - Kultur - Wissen. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Dis/Ability, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
https://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kollegium/robert-stock
18 May 2022
Professor Oliver Musenberg and Professor Simon Mckeown.
Images of Disability – An Analysis of the ‘Hans-Würtz Collection’ as a Contribution to Disability History (in Education) and a Catalyst for Inclusive Teaching.
Lecture by Oliver Musenberg at the ‘Inclusion Round Table’
27 June 2023
Professor Oliver Musenberg.
Heritage Consortium, York, UK.
Key note speaker introducing the project to heritage specialists.
17 and 18 July 2023
Professor Simon Mckeown and Karolina Hyży.
International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Budapest, HU.
Presentation introducing the pedagogical history of The Hans Würtz Collection to academic experts.
24-25 July 2023
Professor Oliver Musenberg and Dr Sebastian Pampuch and Professor Simon McKeown.
Interview with Professor Simon McKeown by Colin Hambrook of Disability Arts Online, UK.
This interview with McKeown explores how Images of Disability reintroduces historical depictions of disabled people from the Hans Würtz Collection, showing them as visible and active in everyday life, and reframes the collection as a living resource connecting past representations to contemporary disability arts.
17 October 2022
Professor Simon McKeown with Colin Hambrook.
24th Conference of Archives, Libraries, Museums in the Digital World 2023, Prague, CZ.
29 November 2023
Šimon Krýsl and Veronika Löblová of the National Medical Library.
Alter – European Society for Disability Research - 12th Alter Conference – Disability Research for the real world, KU Leuven, Belgium, BE.
Intersections between the past(s) and the present: representations of people of color with or without disabilities in the Hans-Würtz-Collection.
4-5 July 2024
Dr Sebastian Pampuch.
Thinking the “other” from the Historical Perspective. Faculty of Humanties, Charles University, Prague, CZ.
How can we look at the "other" in different historical periods? Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop for Ph.D. Students and Early Career Researchers.
2-3 September 2024
Karolina Hyży.
Leeds Disability Studies Conference 2024, UK.
The Hans-Würtz-Collection - Unlocking a Unique Body of Disability Related Images.
3-5 September 2024
Professor Simon McKeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg.
Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Workshop: “Visualizations of vulnerability: images and imaginations of individual and social vulnerability", Muttenz, Switzerland, CH.
Visualizations of vulnerability as seen through the example of the disabled beggar in the Hans-Würtz-Collection.
9-11 September 2024
Dr Sebastian Pampuch.
Disability History: New perspectives and Interdisciplinary approaches, Münster, DE.
Reconsidering past representations: Visualizations of disability and impairment in the Hans-Würtz-Collection.
6-8 November 2024
Dr Sebastian Pampuch and team.
Images of Disability at the Annual Conference of the Association for Art History, University of York, UK.
A panel session on disability and art in the Hans-Würtz-Collection.
11 April 2025
Convened by McKeown and Musenberg with speakers Dr. Alexandra Morris, Rachel Gadsden-Hayton, Dr. Alison Wilde, Simon McKeown and Oliver Musenberg.
Collected and curated. Representations of Disability in the Hans Würtz Collection at the University of Cologne with the Thyssen Foundation, DE.
Lecture at the conference “Practices of Representing Disability in Art and Literature”.
6 June 2025
Professor Oliver Musenberg.
Images of Disability. The Hans Würtz Collection between the World Wars, Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, DE.
Exhibition held at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, a major city centre gallery and cultural centre.
17 March - 30 March 2025
Professor Oliver Musenberg with Dr Sebastian Pampuch, with Professor Simon McKeown.
Images of Disability. The Hans Würtz Collection between the World Wars, Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, DE.
Exhibition brochure, Germand and English and Easy Read. Published by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Published 17 March 2025
Link to PDF to do.
Professor Oliver Musenberg with Dr Sebastian Pampuch, with Professor Simon McKeown.
Images of Disability video trailer
Exhibition video trailer for the Images of Disability. The Hans Würtz Collection between the World Wars exhibition at Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, DE.
Published 17 March 2025
The whole project team in Prague and Berlin documented and edited by Dr Paul Darke.
Images of Disability. The Hans Würtz Collection between the World Wars, Humboldt-Forum, Berlin, DE.
The De-Crippler. Podcast accompanying the exhibition - Der Entkrüppler. Podcast zur Ausstellung "Bilder von Behinderung. Die Sammlung Hans Würtz zwischen den Weltkriegen
Published 17 March 2025
Professor Oliver Musenberg
'The Hans-Würtz-Collection: Unlocking a Unique Body of Disability Related Images, Warburg Institute, London, UK.
Warburg Director's Seminar.
25 June 2025
Professor Simon McKeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg chaired by Rachel Gadsden-Hayton.
Images of Disability, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK.
Exhibition curated by McKeown with assistance.
17 March - 2 March 2026
Professor Simon McKeown with Dr. Alexandra Morris, Kathryn Barnett and Dr. Sebastian Pampuch, supported by Andrew Barnett.
A paper written by Dr Sebastian Pampuch for the ZDS Journal of Disability Studies, Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck, AT.
'Stelzfüßler', Schwarze Diener und Unterhaltungskünstler auf Holzbeinen: Historische Darstellungen von Schwarzen Menschen und People of Color in der Sammlung Hans Würtz
'Peg legs', Black servants and other 'strange varieties of mankind': Historical visual representations of (non-)disabled Black people and people of colour in the Hans Würtz Collection
November 2025
Dr Sebastian Pampuch
A two part blog written by Professor Simon McKeown the Archvies and Records Association, UK and Ireland, UK and IE.
Accessibility and Archives: Images of Disability: Digitising The Hans Würtz Collection.
16 October 2025
Professor Simon McKeown
A two part blog written by Professor Simon McKeown the Archvies and Records Association, UK and Ireland, UK and IE.
Accessibility and Archives: Lost and Found: The Hans Würtz Collection.
16 October 2025
Professor Simon McKeown
A paper written by Dr. Sebastian Pampuch for the journal 'Cultural and Social History' - Currently in pre-print.