This year's Museum Ethnographers Group conference will be held in the University of Aberdeen on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 April. It will focus on 'Collections, Collaboration and Communities', with sessions including 'Collections and source communities', 'Museums as collaborating communities' and 'Participative re-interpretation of collections', along with short reports on current work and time for discussion. The conference also include a social programme with a dinner and ceilidh, with opportunities to visit museums in Aberdeen, particularly a visit to the collections in store and the exhibition 'Fiji, Scotland and the making of Empire'. The full provisional programme and online registration is available now at www.abdn.ac.uk/events/meg2014<http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/meg2014> I apologise for cross-posting, but please pass on to anyone or lists you think may find it of interest. With best wishes, Neil Neil Curtis Head of Museums University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------