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‘Material Culture, Identities and
Inclusion’
AHRC Funded
Conference
9th and
Department of Museum Studies,
!!!Book a place now!!!
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/ka43/attic/conference.htm
We are pleased to announce that the ‘Material Culture, Inclusion and Identities’ conference is now booking. Please note that we have limited delegate places, so we advise that you book early to avoid disappointment.
***CONFERENCE
THEMES
As cultural institutions aiming to
serve the public through their collections, museums and galleries are now facing
questions regarding what they should collect, how collections should be
interpreted and whose voices are being represented. Ultimately, museums need to
justify their place within our modern society where communities and individuals
have multi-layered cultural heritages, faith traditions, identities, interests
and needs. This conference aims to reconsider our understanding of material
culture, identity and inclusion. We also aim to explore how what we choose to
collect, display and interpret in museums and galleries validates certain
audiences’ identities whilst excluding others.
***CONFERENCE
QUESTIONS
The conference will seek to
address the following key contemporary
questions:
*What does ‘material culture’
mean, conceptualised and constructed within the 21st century museums
and galleries?
*What role can museums and galleries
play in supporting communities to express their cultural life, and personal and
collective identities?
*What role can cultural
institutions play in the government’s social inclusion
agenda?
*Which types of methodologies can
inspire and help researchers unpick these themes?
***PROGRAMME
Attached with this email is a copy
of the conference programme. The conference will bring together a sometimes
disparate interdisciplinary academic and PhD research community. The selection
of papers will bring together cutting edge research and critical thinking from
11 different museums, art gallery or heritage focused departments from across
the UK. Subject matter raised by the papers is very diverse from how museums are
helping countries to come to terms with Genocide to how contemporary African art
is interpreted. This conference is therefore also open to museum professionals
who are interested in keeping up to date with current thinking.
***KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
We are particularly honoured that
four distinguished academics have accepted our invitation to be the conference's
keynote speakers. They are:
*Emeritus Professor Susan M.
Pearce, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester who will be
discussing 'The Strange Story of the Thing, or The Material World in the
Contemporary Novel'
*Professor Simon Knell, Department
of Museum Studies, University of Leicester on 'Objects, Identity, Inclusion: How
the modern museum was made'
*Richard Sandell, Department of
Museum Studies, University of Leicester on 'Museums and the Combating of
Prejudice'
*Andrew Newman, International
Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne on
'Countering Social Exclusion through Identity Construction: The Role of Museums
and Galleries'.
***KEY SUBJECTS
INCLUDE
*The controversy around the
regeneration of the Maze Prison site in Northern Ireland
*Museums, Peace and Reconciliation
in Lebanon
*Museums and Chinese Audiences: A
Case Study from the Victoria and Albert
Museum
*Illness in Contemporary
Arts
*Social Inclusion and Museums:
Celebration of ‘Difference’ Understanding ‘Self’ and
‘Other’
*Jewish History in the Showcase:
The Anglo-Jewish Historical
Exhibition and the formation of Jewish
identities
*Inclusive ways of consulting and
researching collaboratively with disabled
people
*Exhibiting Welsh cultural
identity
***WHO SHOULD
ATTEND
*Academics with a research
interest in museums, heritage, history, archaeology, cultural policy, art,
religion and sociology.
*Museum, heritage and art gallery
professionals
*Postgraduate and PhD students
***CONFERENCE
WEBSITE
Visit the website to see the
provisional programme, read the abstracts of the papers and find out some
information about the speakers: http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/ka43/attic/conference.htm
***POSTERS
!NEW!
Due to the overwhelming response
and the high standard of abstracts submitted to the conference, we have decided
to organise an additional poster session on the 9th February. This
will be an opportunity for delegates to network, share ideas and find out
further research. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact
Vivian Ting at [log in to unmask] by 19 December 2005, with a title of your
poster and a 200 words abstract to explain its content. The selected applicants
will be notified by 9 January 2006. See the website for more information
regarding the posters: http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/ka43/attic/posters.htm
***BOOKINGS
To secure a place on the conference please fill in the
attached booking form or download it from the website. The delegate fee covers
all refreshments and lunches, a drinks reception on the evening of the
9th February, a delegate pack and a copy of the conference
proceeding.
Delegate Fees:
Two days academic/museum
professional delegate rate:
£60
Two days student delegate
rate:
£20
One day academic/museum
professional delegate rate: £
30
One day student delegate
rate: £10
Forms should be returned to
Barbara Lloyd by email at [log in to unmask], or by
post at the following address:Barbara Lloyd, University of
Leicester, Department of Museum Studies, 105 Princess Road East, Leicester, LE1
7LG.
***TRAVEL FUND FOR PhD
STUDENTS
UK-based doctoral students who
wish to attend the conference may be eligible to apply for support with travel
costs. More information about this, including the travel fund criteria, is
available on the conference website.
***ENQUIRIES
If you have any queries, please do
not hesitate to contact us:
*General enquiries:
Heather Hollins – [log in to unmask]
*Bookings:
Barbara Lloyd – [log in to unmask]
*Posters :
Vivian Ting – [log in to unmask]
*Website
information:
Kostas Arvanitis – [log in to unmask]
Many thanks – The Conference
Committee