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…
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Draft programme: The Museum in the Global Contemporary: Debating the Museum of Now
The draft programme for the forthcoming Leicester Museum Studies Fiftieth Anniversary Conference is now available on the ‘Global Contemporary’ website (where you can also book a place). Me and Malika Kraamer will be presenting a paper – ‘Unplaced heritage: Making identity through fashion’ – on Wednesday, 20th April, which is based on the chapter we’re…
CFP: The Museum in the Global Contemporary: Debating the Museum of Now
2016 will be the 50th anniversary of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. To celebrate, the School is organising a major international conference in April and is particularly encouraging creative contributions. It should be a really exciting and inspiring event, with something for everyone, and far beyond the typical academic conference! See below for the call…
Conference alert: The ‘China Dream’: passions, policies and power, 24-25th September 2014, University of Leicester
Image taken at the Olympic Park, Beijing, September 2013 by ‘JeffMec’. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmec/10489431614/sizes/o/ Licensed for use under Creative Commons Just popping by to post about the conference I’ve been helping to organising on behalf of ChiSRA: the University of Leicester’s China Studies Research Alliance. The ‘China Dream’: passions, policies and power takes place between 24-25th September, at…