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REMINDER - Call for Papers
Museums and Restitution
International Conference
8-9 July 2010, University of Manchester
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/
Deadline for abstracts: *Friday 11th December 2009*
Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference
organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the
University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of
restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the
museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are
addressing the subject. It will bring together museum professionals
and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology,
archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share
ideas on contemporary approaches to restitution from the viewpoint of
museums.
Possible themes:
- New museums, new developments
- Visual, knowledge and digital repatriation
- Authority and power: voices listened to, voices heard
- Beyond ownership? Loans, travelling exhibitions, exchanges
- Reflections on returns
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Piotr Bienkowski (Former Deputy Director, The Manchester Museum);
Title of Keynote: "Authority and the Power of Place: Exploring the
Legitimacy of Authorised and Alternative Voices in the Restitution
Discourse".
- Prof. Anthony Shelton (Director, The University of British Columbia
Museum of Anthropology);
Title of Keynote: "After Dispossession: Heritage, Longing and Anomie
in the New Global Homeland"
Provisional Keynote Speakers:
- Tristram Besterman (freelance advisor on museums and culture,
formerly Director of the Manchester Museum);
- Prof. James Cuno (Director of the Art Institute of Chicago);
- Prof. Dimitrios Pantermalis (President of the new Acropolis Museum, Athens);
Please send a title and a short proposal of no more than 300 words and
biographical details to Louise Tythacott
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Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 11th December 2009
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Dr Konstantinos Arvanitis
Lecturer in Museology
Centre for Museology
The University of Manchester
Tel.: +44 161 2753018
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museology/
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