The Future of Ethnographic Museums?
19-21 July 2013, University of Oxford
This summer the Pitt Rivers Museum, the University of Oxford's Museum of Anthropology and World Archaeology, will be holding a major international conference on the Future of Ethnographic Museums. As well as creating an opportunity for debate and discussion, delegates will experience a reception and late night event at the Museum, a gala dinner in Keble College and a performance by leading Australian aboriginal artist Christian Thompson.
Speakers will include:
James Clifford, Ruth Phillips, Wayne Modest, Corinne Kratz, Sharon Macdonald, Annie Coombes, Kavita Singh and Nick Thomas.
For full details and booking information see: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/PRMconference_details.html
See February’s Anthropology Today for an article by the conference conveners, Clare Harris and Michael O’Hanlon, highlighting some of the key challenges and opportunities for ethnographic museums:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12003/abstract
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Dr Dan Hicks MIfA, FSA
School of Archaeology/Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
http://oxford.academia.edu/DanHicks
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