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Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones (2nd call for participation)
A two-day international symposium and live art event for PhD students and
early career researchers.
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th December 2009.
University of Leicester, UK.
Join us at the internationally–renowned School of Museum Studies this
December for an exciting event organised and run by PhD students, Materiality
and Intangibility: Contested Zones.
Museums and galleries are all about the material world; the preservation and
display, presentation and interpretation of things to their audiences, which
can include everything from everyday objects to works of art and human
remains. Yet, often it is the 'intangible' elements of things – those elements
that may be hidden or left unsaid - from which we draw our meanings and
understandings about things. A division is often made between the obvious
(the 'material') and the less obvious (the 'intangible'), a division which we
believe is controversial and which often prevents the full value of material
culture from being understood.
Through a series of thought-provoking presentations, specially selected for
their unique and creative approach to the theme, Materiality and Intangibility:
Contested Zones will challenge this fixed division between the surface and the
hidden. Throughout the event, invited artists will be producing artworks in
response to the theme of the Symposium and participants will be encouraged
to interact and engage with presenters and artists. The event will provide an
informal and supportive environment for creative thinking and opportunities for
debate and the shaping of new ideas as well as dialogue between academia
and the art environment.
Confirmed key note speakers: Emeritus Professor Susan Pearce, Dr Sandra
Dudley and Dr Kostas Arvanitis.
The symposium and live art event costs just £20 for both days, including lunch
and refreshments.
BOOKING FORM: http://attic-
museumstudies.blogspot.com/2009/09/symposium-announcement-
materialiry.html
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: http://attic-
museumstudies.blogspot.com/2009/10/materiality-intangibility-provisional.html
Please refer any queries to Amy Barnes ([log in to unmask]).
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Amy Jane Barnes
PhD Student
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/research/amybarnes.html
School of Museum Studies
University of Leicester
Museum Studies Building
19 University Road
Leicester
LE1 7RF
(0116) 2525773
The University of Leicester's Department of Museum Studies has the highest
proportion of world-leading rated research in any subject in any UK university
(RAE 2008)
Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008-9
The Attic: the virtual home of the Department of Museum Studies'
research students:
http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com/
Download RCMG reports from our website
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/research/rcmg.html
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