Frankfurt programme

XIII Annual Meeting of ICOMON, Frankfurt 2006

MONDAY 4th SEPTEMBER

10:00 – 10:45 Opening

Representatives of Bundesbank and ICOM

10:45- 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 -12:30 Keynote Speech

Ian Wishehn, "Culture, politics and crime – how do money museums deal with bigger issues?"

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Politics and its impact on money museums I

Catherine Eagleton, British Museum, "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and money museums"
Keith Sugden and Phyllis Stoddart, Manchester Musem, "Empire and coinage: a contribution to the debate on colonialism"
Angelina Araujo, "Politics and the money museum in Bogata"

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Politics and its impact on money museums II

Janis Motivans, Bank of Latvia, "Violence in the mirror of money: national history at the Money Museum"
Andrea E. Schmidt, "Premonetary money and museology in Germany"
Walter R. Bloom, Western Australia Maritime Museum, "The conflict between public and private ownership of shipwreck coins"

19:00-21:00 Reception, Money Museum

TUESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER

9:30 -11:00 Politics and its effect on banknotes and coins I

Takashi Uemura, Insatsu Choyokai Foundation, "Influence of politics on banknote design"
Eleni Zapiti, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, "Some examples of Cypriote coins issued to consolidate power"
Reinhold Walburg, Deutsche Bundesbank, "The Ides of March: motif reappears throughout history"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 Politics and its effect on banknotes and coins II

Marianella Guevara Zerlin, Banco Central de Venezuela, "The foreign cash flow in Venezuela during the XIX Century – background and consequences"
Fan Weihong, Peoples Bank of China, "The currency design reproduction and its copyright protection in China"
Mohamed Elhadri, University of Lyon, "Religion and mysticism on post-almohade coins: the example of the Marinads in Western North Africa (13th – 15th centuries)"

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Politics and its effect on banknotes and coins III

Gerd Dethlefs, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, "Problems of the copyright of coins and medals – an exhibition concept for German museums"
Noriko Fujii, Bank of Japan, "Japanese advanced techniques to avoid forgery of paper money"
Rosanna Agard, Central Bank of Suriname, "Suriname´s emergency money"

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Culture, politics and crime on medals

Ulf Dräger
Dirk Schaal
Dagmar-Beatrice Gaedtke-Eckardt, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, "Medals and museology in Germany"

18:15 Visit Municipal Archives of Frankfurt, followed by a visit to a traditional “apple wine location”

WEDNESDAY 6th SEPTEMBER

9:30 -11:00 Cultural Development and the History of Money I

Dagmar Sommer, Historische Kunstsammlungen Dresden, "Architectura in nummis’ – building as a symbol of supremacy on Saxon commemorative coins and medals"
Lucia Traviani, Università degli Studi di Milano, "Gold Italian coins and their imitations 1252-1535"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 Cultural Development and the History of Money II

Carlos Iza Téran, Central Bank of Ecuador, "Ecuardian symbolism coins"
Vedat Keles, Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Fen, "Finings in Parion four golden objects"

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 New Projects

Emanuela Ercolani and Luciana Prati, Dipartimento die Storia Antica, Bologna/Pinacoteca e Musei, Forli, “Numismatic collections and historical knowledge, the Forli´project"
Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser, City of Hall in Austria, “Social history in a mint museum? The concept of an exhibition in the mint museum in Tyrol” paper abstract
Gudrun Noll, Municipal Museum Erfurt, "Money exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Erfurt Kühne: Old Mint of Stolberg"

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 ICOMON General Assembly

18:15 Historical Museum Frankfurt

20:00 Farewell Dinner