New blogpost for the EAMENA project

The second part of my blogpost series on designing a pop-up exhibition has recently been posted to the EAMENA website. In it I write about selecting images and writing accessible text for successful engagement with non-specialist audiences. Incidentally, the Egypt exhibition is currently at the Biblotheca Alexandrina (until 27th Feb 2019). Photographs courtesy of the…

Museums in the Global Contemporary

I’m recovering today from an exhausting but enjoyable few days at the School of Museum Studies’ Fiftieth Anniversary Conference, Museums in the Global Contemporary. I didn’t get to see as many sessions as I would’ve liked, but I did manage to write a few live(-ish) blogs for the conference website. You can read them, and the…

Revolutionary nian hua at the British Library

On a suitably ‘new year’ theme,* my blogpost about a set of revolutionary nian hua prints from 1950 has been posted to the British Library’s Asia and Africa blog. The image is a detail from Jian zheng huan xuan hao ren (建政懽選好人), ‘Good people happily select a government’, by ‘Wulejibatu’ (烏勒吉巴图) of Inner Mongolia (Neimeng, 内蒙]). Revolutionary nian…

Chinese propaganda posters and the thorny issue of copyright

Just popping by to mention that BICC has published a blog post by me on the thorny issue of Chinese propaganda posters and copyright, based on research I have been doing during my three month postdoc at the British Library.  I was surprised by the advice we were given with reference to digitisation and public…

Fragile Earth – our student exhibition 2013

The University has recently instigated staff blogs and Museum Studies is one of the first departments to get one! My first post describes the student exhibitions I was involved with before Easter.