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> The MEG conference is a two-day annual event held during April/May at
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>
> CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 2005
>
> 'Looking Backward, Looking Forward'
> Monday 9th - Tuesday 10th May 2005
> The Manchester Museum
>
> History of ethnographic display in museums
> Chair – Peter Gathercole
> - George Bankes – ‘From Explorers and Encounters to
> Living Cultures’.
> - Jonathan King – ‘Fragile Paradigms: ethnographic
> displays in London c.1740-1940’.
> - Susanne Hammacher – ‘Moving Objects: the
> interpreting and contextualising of museum displays with
> films/moving images’.
>
> New strategies in ethnographic representation
> Chair - TBC
> - Andrew Brydon – ‘ Exhibiting Japan – Global
> Strategies for Local Actors’.
> - Rupert Cox – ‘Transforming Art: Innovation,
> Inspiration and Imitation in two Japanese Art Museums’.
> - Mark Elliot – ‘Side Effects: Looking, Touching and
> Interacting in the Indian Museum, Kolkata’.
> - Trudy Nicks – ‘Ethnography at the Royal Ontario
> Museum in the 20th and 21st centuries’.
>
> Work in Progress
> Chair – Sarah Posey
> - Alison Petch and Fran Larson – ‘Pitt Rivers, Relational
> Museum Project’. (20 min)
> - Claire Warrior and Janet Owen – 'Collecting artefacts,
> acquiring Empire: a maritime endeavour' - a
> forthcoming seminar at the National Maritime Museum.
> (5-10 min)
> - Bill Tunstall – ‘Making History Local: the Somali
> History Project, Liverpool’. (20 min)
> - Lynne Heidi Stumpe – ‘New displays at Liverpool’.
> (10min)
> - Pat Allen – ‘The Cultural Survival Gallery in the
> refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with
> particular reference to the display ‘Survival: people and
> their land’’. (5-10min)
>
> Developments in attitudes towards Material Culture
> Chair – Sandra Dudley
> - Peter Naumann – ‘What’s in the box?: Linnaeus’
> Legacy’.
> - Peter Gathercole – ‘The ‘Molesworth’ tiki’.
> - Sherry Farrell Racette – ‘Connecting Sources and
> Recontextualising Material Culture: taking another look
> at hide coats’.
> - Keith Jameison – ‘Changing contexts for
> Haudenosaunee material culture’.
>
> Evolution of ethnography in multi-discipline museums –
> and the future?
> Chair – Tristram Besterman
> - Louise Tythacott – ‘Anthropologies, museums and
> curators: shifting museological landscapes of the 20th
> and 21st centuries’.
> - Chris Wingfield – ‘After Gallery 33… 15 years on at
> Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’.
> - Alison Brown – ‘The Kelvingrove New Century
> Project: changing approaches to the display of World
> Cultures in Glasgow’.
> - Sam Alberti – ‘A Century of Ethnography at the
> Manchester Museum’.
>
For further information regarding this conference, please contact:
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> Lisa Harris
> (Curator of Anthropology)
> The Manchester Museum
> The University of Manchester
> Oxford Road
> Manchester
> M13 9PL
>
> 0161 275 2637
> 0771 8897202
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