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Hi all, We would like to invite you to the Museums & Civil Society after Brexit Symposium, to be held at the Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth. Museums are a key platform for a civil society in transformation. This interdisciplinary forum brings together different voices to reflect on the financial and cultural impact of Brexit for representing and performing identity within the public sphere. The event links theory with practice by bringing academics and researchers together with curators and administrators to work through dilemmas that arise when developing exhibitions and managing collections in times of uncertainty. When: Wednesday January the 9th 2019 Where: Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales The Symposium is sponsored by WISERD, the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods. Programme 09.30 - 10.00 Welcome and introduction: Managing museums in times of austerity 10.00 - 11.20 Session I: Marketisation and pressures faced by museums - a historical perspective Talk by Bella Dicks (National Museum Wales) and discussion moderated by Gareth Hoskins (Aberystwyth University) 11.20 - 11.40 Break with tea and coffee 11.40 - 13.00 Session II: Issues of representation and participation Talk by Helen Graham (University of Leeds) and discussion moderated by Alice Briggs (Ceredigion Museum) 13.00 - 13.30 Conclusions: State-of-the-art. Sharing outcomes Speaker TBC 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Please notice: Attendance is free of charge. We kindly ask you to register as seats are limited. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposiwm-amgueddfeydd-a-chymdeithas-sifil-wedi-brexit-symposium-museums-and-civil-society-after-tickets-53534889295 If you have further questions, please send an email to Silvia Hassouna ([log in to unmask]). Details Session I: Marketisation and pressures faced by museums - a historical perspective For almost two decades museums have been pressured to generate their own income, while academic critiques of cultural commodification are invariably levelled against local grassroots interests as an appropriation or a dilution of ‘the authentic’. Are there other conversations about economy-identity relations to be had within the museum sector? Session II: Issues of representation, participation and global relations International relationships in terms of policy and funding have been crucial in shaping the profile of Welsh culture and Welsh museums but what role will Welsh museums play in a post-Brexit institutional landscape cut off from European financial and infrastructural support. How can museums represent the competing identity claims associated with Brexit? How might museums articulate multiple identities (e.g. Welsh, British, European) in a time of popular nationalism? How might they help to cultivate new modes of belonging in the current political climate? ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1