Placing the Museum: Towards Museum Geography
AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago (April 21-25, 2015) – Call for Papers
Geographers are increasingly contributing to understanding the multiple functions museums serve, much like their colleagues in history, anthropology, and museum studies. In her 2010 article “Museum Geography: Exploring Museums, Collections and Museum Practice in the UK,” Hilary Geoghegan writes, “Museums and collections offer geographers exciting sites and subjects for research and teaching… [and] that it is now time to consider museum geography more closely” (p. 1472). Heeding her call, this set of sessions is designed to serve as a conversation space to consider recent scholarship by geographers and others interested in the social spaces of museums. Ideally, new and career scholars as well as non-academic museum stakeholders will participate in this set of sessions designed to consider 1) the changing roles of museums in various geographical settings, 2) the shifting challenges – legal, economic and issues of diversity –faced by museums 3) analysis of the adoption of new forms of representation and embodiment at specific sites. A brief, but hardly comprehensive, list of potential topics includes:
• Emotion and affect in museums
• The growing role of touch, taste and smell at some museum sites
• The use of geography to inform museum scholarship
• Counter-narratives within the museum and counter-narrative museum sites.
• Best practices and challenges in handling the “tough stuff” of history
• Various issues connected to Children’s museums
• Museums and pedagogy
• Playfulness and presentation at museums
Work on both museum research and research on museums is encouraged.
As important as presenting your work is, we ask that all participants across this (hopefully) multiple set of sessions attend other sessions in the set and consider also participating in a final discussion session that will reflect on new directions in the field and future collaboration opportunities.
If you are interested in participating or have questions, please directly contact Arnold Modlin at [log in to unmask] or Amy Potter at [log in to unmask]
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