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Cultural Equality Now Conference at British Museum
Join some of the UK’s most interesting thinkers, including Mark O’Neil, Bernadette Lynch, Bonnie Greer, Sandy Nairne, Helen Weinstein and Rita Mclean to tackle the questions facing museums, galleries, heritage sites and libraries and archives today.
This conference is for practitioners, policy makers and researchers interested in diversity in the cultural sector. The talks will focus on keeping the access and diversity agenda alive as budgets shrink, who funds and supports this work now, the opportunities and threats of the Big Society and Localism, the effect of the new Equalities Act on different organisations, and changing approaches to inclusion in the sector.
55GBP
Conference fees have been subsidised by the British Museum to help you attend.
FIHRM add resources to their homepage
The Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) has added resources to their website and will continue to add information and perhaps podcasts from the inaugural conferenc to their resources homepage.
The first case study (Exhibitions dealing with the legacies of slavery in the Bicentenary year of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act) was written by yours truly. It’s a bit lengthy (23 pages) but if anybody does get around to reading it, I would be thrilled to hear your feedback!
Communicating The Museum ‘11 will now take place next 6, 7, 8 July 2011 in Frankfurt.
The call for papers is out too.
UKMW10 Conference – Doing more with less: rising to the digital challenge in difficult times
26th November 2010, London
The UK cultural heritage sector is entering a turbulent period. The policy landscape is being reshaped, funding streams renegotiated and portfolios of responsibility changing hands. The challenge we have been set is to think creatively about the future, to show courage and ingenuity, as well as share illustrations of what we do well.
Call for papers: Does war belong in a museum?
The call is in German, but if you contact the Museumsakademie Joanneum they may be able to send you details in English if the call matches your research.
The conference plans to problematise the representations of war in museums, be it fetishistic or as a tool to teach anti-violence. What do visitors expect? What problems do collections of war memorabilia and weapons present? What new and innovative ways of broaching these subjects are available?
Deadline is 19th November 2010 for a max. 1 page sketch of a 30 minute presentation with 15 Q&A.
Call for papers: Curiouser and Curiouser
Challenging Convention and Celebrating the Unusual in Museums and Heritage
A THREE-DAY Phd Symposium
School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
(28TH -29TH -30TH of March 2011)‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ sets out to deconstruct notions of normality and eccentricity in museums and heritage institutions. What exactly is normal, and what is idiosyncratic? In an attempt to begin to answer some of these questions, we are inviting submissions for papers or practical workshops on subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
Interpretation
Eccentric: display strategies
education and learning strategies
visitor research and engagement
uses of display space
uses of media and technology in museums
research methods
events/ performances
portrayals of museums in other media
museological theories and paradigms
What is eccentric/idiosyncratic?
What is acceptable, and who decides?
Collections, Collecting and Collectors
Eccentric/idiosyncratic collections/objects
collectors
collecting methods
Intangible heritage and its retrieval
Historical interpretations of collecting, and how what is acceptable has changed
The value of collections, what is worth collecting and why?
Spaces and Places
Eccentric/idiosyncratic architecture, both deliberately designed and unusually used environment and surroundings
Physical compared to virtual collections
Displays in unexpected places
Transformations of spaces
Conference: Museum und Migration, Vienna 18th - 20th November 2010
For more information in English click here (pdf) or above for German and the programme.
Conference on knitting to be held at museum
Shetland Museum is to host an international conference on knitting in collaboration with the University of Southampton.
In the loop 2 will give a focus for the many facets of knitting, ranging from academic research to contemporary art practice. Another hope is that it will foster study and promote the revival of the craft.
Conference details available at the University of Southampton’s website
