CALL FOR PAPERS: Museums and biographies.
To be held at the National Gallery Thursday 10th – Saturday 12th September
2009, co-organised with the Museums and Galleries History Group and the
International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University.
The conference will bring together those who study the interconnections
between museums and galleries, collecting and biography. Drawing together
analyses of representation, material culture and personality, we invite papers
that can cast new light on the study of lives, objects and display. Abstracts
are invited from historians, museologists, artists and others.
Keynote speakers: Arthur MacGregor, Nicholas Penny.
Papers are invited that consider historical and/or current aspects of the
following areas:
• The lives of curators, dealers and collectors
• (Auto)biographical display
• Institutional histories
• Object biographies
• Personality museums
Papers will provide innovative methodological or reflexive insights and be based
on original research. There will be opportunities for museum practitioners to
detail new acquisitions or recent developments in the sector, and other forms
of presentation may be considered as well as conventional papers.
Please email a one-page abstract (maximum 300 words), including brief
autobiographical details, to Catherine Todd - [log in to unmask] (or to
Catherine Todd, Publications & Conference Assistant, ICCHS, Bruce Building,
Newcastle University, NE1 7RU) - by 31 January 2009.
Registration and payment (including speakers) will be invited by 30 June 2009,
rates TBA.
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