William G. J. Edwards
Curator- Gordon Museum, Senior Tutor, Deputy Director EMDP, Kings College London, Guy’s Campus Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and Dental School at Guy's, Kings & St.Thomas' Hospital's, London
Title: The Alice Gretner collection rescued from obscurity, repaired and soon ready to be used as always intended for Medical Education.
Roberto Toni
Department of Medicine and Surgery, and
Museum and Historical Library of Biomedicine -BIOMED, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Title: The masks of Lorenzo Tenchini at the University of Parma: their legacy to the modern concepts of facial transplantation, additive layer manufacturing, and facial recognition algorithms
Fabio Zampieri
Associate Professor, History of Medicine
Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences
University of Padua Medical School
Marco Tosa
Professor of Marble and Stone restoration technology, Academy of Fine Arts Venice.
Title: From the Doge's funeral masks to the 'children with no names'. The art of wax modelling in Venice.
Alfons Zarzoso
Curator, Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya, Barcelona
Title: Itinerant exhibitions and travelling wax makers: anatomies in early 19th-Century Barcelona
Title: Wax models in Barcelona: from university anatomical sculptors to makers of dermatological waxworks
Amaya Maruri Palacín
Curator and restorer of Museo Olavide, Madrid
Title: Following the tracks of the past: The recuperation of the Olavide Museum
Francesco M. Galassi
Principal Research Fellow (Associate Professor)
Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences,
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Title: Plague: from paleopathology to wax modelling
Eleanor Crook
Artist in Residence, the Gordon Museum of Pathology, King's College London
Title: The resurrection of wax as bronze: using the renaissance wax modelling techniques of Habsburg bell casting for a new statue.
Roberta Ballestriero
Associate Lecturer
in MA Art & Science, University of the Arts, London. Art Historian in residence,
the Gordon Museum of Pathology, London
Title: From the Doge's funeral masks to the 'children with no names'. The art of wax modelling in Venice.
Maurizio Rippa-Bonati
Doctor,Associate Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Padua.
Title: The wax models of the Paduan Obstetrical Clinic
Giovanni Battista Nardelli
Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Director of the UOC Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University of Padua.
Title: The wax models of the Paduan Obstetrical Clinic
Thomas Schnalke
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
Title: Finger Faces. Waxen hand models and moulages in medicine
Marco Antonio Miranda Razo
Master Artisan, Researcher, Mexico City
Title: The Art of Ceroplastic, or Wax, Modelling in Mexico
José Pardo-Tomás
Researcher, Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona
Title: Itinerant exhibitions and travelling wax makers: anatomies in early 19th-Century Barcelona
Alberto Zanatta
Curator of the Museum of Pathological Anatomy, University of Padua, University Museums Centre – CAM
Fausto Barbagli
ANMS President National Association Scientific Museums, Italy.
Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, Zoology Section "La Specola"
Title: Didactic objects, artworks or museum artefacts? A museological approach to wax modelling.
Chloe Sharpe
Associate lecturer, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid
Title: Wax models in Barcelona: from university anatomical sculptors to makers of dermatological waxworks
Konrad Schlegel
Curator of Kunstkammer & Schatzkammer, Kunstkammer Wien
Title: Wax Artefacts in the Kunstkammer of Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) in Ambras Castle
Dr. Laurens de Rooy
Curator-director Museum Vrolik
Title: What Ziegler did not provide: the embryological plate models of Amsterdam anatomist Louis Bolk (1866-1930)
Sharon Hecker
Independent Art Historian and Curator, Milan
Title: Not Modelled: Medardo Rosso’s Waxes
Andrea Cozza
Doctor, PhD student at the University of Padua.
Title: The wax models of the Paduan Obstetrical Clinic
Ivan Cenzi
Author, Cultural History/Death Studies Independent Scholar, Rome.
Title: Saints, Mothers & Aphrodites: Seduction and Dissection of the Female Body