A quick post about a project I was involved in around this time last year. I was asked by Prof David Mattingley and Dr Martin Sterry of the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at the University of Leicester, to help put together a series of exhibition panels about the archaeology of Wadi Draa in…
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Advertising and Public Memory Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs
In September 2016, ‘the first scholarly collection to collection to examine the social and cultural aspects of the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage’ (aka ‘ghost signs’, will be published by Routledge. Edited by Stefan Schutt, Sam Roberts and Leanne White, the volume includes a chapter written by Colin Hyde of the…
New course: Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries
At the School of Museum Studies’ Fiftieth Anniversary Conference, Museums in the Global Contemporary, last week, a brand new course, ‘Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries, was launched. I was involved in its development, last summer, as Research Associate on the project, and it’s great to see that all that hard work has come to…
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…
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…
A Chinese art mystery
As I mentioned a few posts back, before Easter our masters students put together an exhibition of objects loaned by the University’s Department of Geology and Leicester Arts and Museum Service. One painting, on first sight seemingly straight-forward turned out to be quite an enigma. Called ‘A Mountain Boy’, it is recorded as being by…
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.