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| JME and JSTOR |
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A full complement of past issues of the Journal of Museum Ethnography, including the early newsletter and occasional papers, is on its way to the USA for digitisation. In time they will become available online through JSTOR, and available to MEG members.... |
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| Appeal to Longstanding Members: JME Digitisation |
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The Committee is excited to announce that we have recently entered into an agreement with JSTOR to digitise all past issues of the Journal of Museum Ethnography, the early MEG Newsletter which preceded this as well as MEG's Occasional Papers. What this means for you is that you will soon be able to have digital access to all these back issues through the MEG website. What this also means is that you may be able to free up some space on your bookshelves. In order to be able to complete this digitisation, MEG are looking for copies of: JME 4, any copies of the original newsletters as well as copies of the occasional papers. We would be very happy to reimburse any costs involved in sending these to us. If you have old copies of MEG publication th... |
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| Museums and Restitution conference |
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Museums and Restitution International conference 8-9th July 2010, the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/museumsandrestitution/ Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. The conference will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museol... |
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| Gift Aid Forms |
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Those of you who attended this years conference will recall the committees plea for members to fill in gift aid forms. HM Revenue and Customs confirmed that we can claim for 4 years retrospectively, so that would be anything from March 31st 2006 onwards. The minimum claimable is 20% of fees paid, which works out at 25p for every £1 however it is variable based on the tax rates of those paying the fees. I would encourage all members who currently pay tax to fill in the gift aid form and return to Alison Clark Centre for Anthropology The British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG It is proposed that these funds be invested in improving the MEG website, to improve its design, capacity for... |
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| Marketing and Publicity Project: MLA Grant |
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It was formally announced at the recent AGM, that MEG has been successful in our application to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) for further Subject Specialist Network funding. The MLA has recently recognised Museum Ethnography as a 'key subject area'. MEG will be spending this on a marketing and publicity project, which will be aimed at giving MEG a new logo, publicity materials and ultimately website. We are hoping to be able to relaunch at the 2011 Conference in London. For more information about the project, please see the Invitation to Tender that has been circulated to those we hope will bid for the work: http://www.museum... |
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| Workshop: TRACES: Thinking Objects Through Remains |
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The Department of Anthropology at UCL/Material Culture and the Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies will host a one-day workshop on the theme of ‘TRACES: Thinking Objects Through Remains’ that will be hosted by the Department of Anthropology at UCL (Daryll Forde seminar room), on 04 June 2010. For further details, please visit: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/conferences/index.htm... |
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| Museum project manager job vacancy at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery |
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For more details see: http://www.museumjobs.com/jobdetails.php?JobID=6163 CLOSING DATE 3rd MAY P/T Project Manager £32,800 - £35,430 pro-rata 22.5 hours per week, Brighton We’re looking for an experienced project manager to deliver an exciting high-profile new gallery to coincide with the 2012 Games. You’ll be part of the team redeveloping the World Art Gallery at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, part-funded by Renaissance and one of just 14 UK partners in the ‘Stories of the World’ Cultural Olympiad strand. This is an innovative, audience-led project, involving working with young people to inform all stages of the gallery’s development. ... |
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| World Cultures Partnership with the British Museum |
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The British Museum's Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas has begun to work with curatorial staff at Museums Sheffield, Leeds Museums and Galleries, and TWAM Great North Museum on ways in which to further enhance use of their world collections. We would like MEG to be a key contact as we progress, and hope to engage the group through a possible discussion meeting at the BM later in the year. Contact staff: Natasha McKinney: nmckinney@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Devorah Romanek: dromanek@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk' ... |
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| MEG Marketing and Publicity Project: Invitation to Tender |
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MEG has been awarded a grant by the MLA to carry out a marketing and publicity project. We are actively inviting tenders for this work. Please see the Invitation to Tender in the Publications section of the site under Publications: http://www.museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/?p=cms&pid=2... |
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| 2010 Conference 'Making Things' |
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Monday 12 April - Tuesday 13 April Museum of English Rural Life , University of Reading 'Making Things' From technological interpretations through to gallery-based artistic interventions, museum ethnographers have long grappled with issues of creativity and with the physical techniques and social forces that underpin the making of our material worlds. However, in recent years other topics—collecting processes, disciplinary histories, and questions of ‘materiality’—have come to the fore, often at the expense of pragmatic and material-centred relationships between people and things. This conference seeks to re-engage with the practical elements of the profession. Registration is 9-9.45am at the Museum of English Rural Life Din... |
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| Melanesia Project Conference - June 2010 |
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Art and Encounter The contemporary significance of museum collections from Melanesia Evening lecture and conference at University College London Monday 28 June 2010 – Lecture by Ralph Regenvanu and reception (5.30pm–8.00pm) Tuesday 29 June 2010 – Full-day conference (10.00am–5.00pm) Location: University College London, Anthropology Department. What is the significance of museum collections of Melanesian material to Melanesians today? What history, what narratives, what relationships do collected objects evoke or create for contemporary communities? This conference will address crucial issues in the anthropology of engagement and in the evocation and creation of historical transformations. Drawing on the... |
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| UNESCO CONVENTIONS FOR NON-LAWYERS |
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We have been working for some years to familiarise cultural professionals who are not lawyers with the contents and impact of UNESCO conventions and policies on the protection of heritage. There will be a one-week professional development course on the international legal standards and practices for heritage protection at the University of Queensland from 13-17 July 2010. Earlier courses at ANU and UQ have included anthropologists, archaeologists, an economist, journalists, a conservation expert, public servants working in the heritage area, a textile expert and other creative artists as well as museums staff. The course is designed to be accessible across a wide range of professional skills and the interchange and different perspectives of the students is o... |
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| CfP: The Circulation of Museum Objects |
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American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 17th- 21st, 2010 Panel organizer: Chris Wingfield, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / University of Birmingham - chris.wingfield(at)prm.ox.ac.uk Deadline for title and abstract: Friday 19th March. When things become museum objects, they can appear to be removed from the world of normal circulation. The process of collecting ethnographic objects has been described in terms of detachment and excision (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998). Storage technologies in museums such as locked doors, alarm systems and glass cases all serve to restrict the movement of museum objects. Museum labeling and documentation can attempt to define museum objects as an immoveable a... |
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| THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE - Appointment of Director |
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THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE Appointment of Director The Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) seeks to appoint a Director to succeed Hilary Callan, from 1 October 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is an exciting opportunity for an appointee to build on the RAI’s established record of furthering and promoting anthropology in its broadest and most inclusive sense. Applicants should have demonstrable administrative, management and financial skills, be experienced in working in an organisational setting with a staff and committees, and with a variety of stakeholders, including universities, NGOs, museums, the media and the general public. All candidates should have some level of anthropological background and training. |
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| Latest from the RAI - Meaning of Water photo contest |
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Dear colleagues and friends, The RAI will be again running screenings and and events during the 2010 ESRC Festival of Social Science week in March, this year on the 'The Meaning of Water' and 'Water Cultures' on film (programme to follow soon). This time we invite you to get creative, too and to participate in our RAI 'The Meaning of Water' Photo Contest (see below)! Please share the invitation with interested students and colleagues around your end. (We have hard copies, too. If you like to display some, please send me an email). Thanks and best Susanne Hammacher RAI Film Officer The Royal Anthropological Institute's Education Outreach Programme invites you to submit your photos ... |
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| Japanese Sashiko Textiles at Plymouth |
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Major 'Japanese Sashiko Textiles' exhibition to travel to Plymouth this summer The first major British exhibition of Japanese Sashiko Textiles will go on display at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 31 July 2010. The show, which was launched at York Art Gallery in October 2009, presents traditional and contemporary textiles and garments, designed to decorate and protect the wearer both physically and spiritually. Entitled 'Japanese Sashiko Textiles', the exhibition presents a sense of time and place in which these works were created. The exhibition has been selected by textile artist Michele Walker whose research has been facilitated by a three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship. ... |
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| North American Exhibition and Symposium at British Museum |
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Free exhibition Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual Until 5 April 2010 A rare opportunity to explore the fascinating world of Native North American warfare and ritual. This exhibition focuses on the material culture of Native North American Indians of the Plains between 1800 and the present, and the importance of the objects in a social and ceremonial context. It will also be supported by a programme of free gallery talks and the symposium Related symposium Scalps, headhunting and sacrifice: war and warfare in indigenous Americas Sunday 21 February, 11.00 - 17.00 Sackler Rooms Free, booking advised Curators and researchers examine case studi... |
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| Job advert - freelance ethnographer |
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SCARBOROUGH MUSEUMS TRUST Here be Dragons Project Scarborough Museums Trusts offering for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad is a project entitled Here be Dragons one of seven Yorkshire museums projects that sit under the banner of Precious Cargoes. Key elements of the project are: 500 charms and fetishes from all over the world collected in the early 20th century by a local naturalist and historian John Clarke. Working with a specially selected group of young people called Cultiv8 on the context and content of the charm collection to inform the and design of an exhibition to be held at Scarborough Art Gallery in the summer of 2012. Working with the Curator of Exhibitions and two collaborative localinstallation artists who ... |
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| Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums - Project Co-ordinator (Stories of the World) |
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| University of Bristol / MEG Essay Prize |
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In early April 2009 MEG held the annual conference at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bristol University. In recognition of the kindness of the department in hosting the meeting, the MEG committee agreed to make a small ex-gratia payment to them. The Bristol department in turn decided to award part of this small sum to the student whose essay that year had most closely reflected an interest in material culture. Her name is Emily Milsam and the topic of her dissertation was carnival cultures in Somerset, a most appropriate topic for a group whose 2008 conference had the theme of 'Ethnography at home' and one that points forward to the venue of our 2010 conference, the Museum of English Rural Life at Reading. A copy of her dissertation can be found on... |
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| Job Advert - NMS Senior Curator |
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The National Museums Scotland has recently advertised the following post of Senior Curator. Closing date for completed applications is 04/01/2010. http://vacancies.nms.ac.uk/nms/vacancies/viewjobsumm.asp?recordid=16843038&internal=&bounty=&f14id= ... |
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| Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Hui |
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Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Hui 17 - 19 November 2010 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand The hui has three key threads; • Emerging Methods: traditional, experimental, transgressive forms • Practice and Advocacy: doing ethnography on the ground • Social Justice and Transformation: theoretical ethnographic visions You are invited to submit your abstracts online. Please browse through the conference website www.nzethnographyconference.com for more information.... |
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| Distribution of Journal |
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Firstly the committee would like to apologise to members for the continued delay in publication of the last editions of the Journal of Museum Ethnography (JME). We now hope to get the following editions out to the following timescale: JME 21 (2008/9) - 'Pacific Encounters' - end February 2010. JME 22 (2009/10) - 'Museum Ethnography at Home' - end March 2010. JME 23 (2010/11) - 'Amateur Passions, Professional Practice' - mid 2010. For additional information please contact the Chair (see Committee members list for email address).... |
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| REMINDER - Call for Papers |
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Museums and Restitution International Conference 8-9 July 2010, University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/ Deadline for abstracts: *Friday 11th December 2009* Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focusing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. It will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share ideas on contemporary ap... |
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| Free 1-day symposium: Ancient and Modern: Exhibiting the Past in the Present |
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UEA Thursday 18 March 2010 This one-day symposium will examine issues involved in displaying and caring for historical and contemporary ethnographic material. The keynote speaker is Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and Curator of North American Ethnology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Professor Graburn is one of the foremost scholars of ethnic and tourist art studies and his pathbreaking book, Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World (1976), has changed the way we think about visual objects outside of the West. His presentation is entitled, "Ancient and Modern: Exhibiting the Hearst Museum's Alaska Commercial Company Collection." The symposium will be free, but a... |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Museum Anthropology |
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: NAGPRA after Two Decades In 1990, the United States Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), thereby forever altering museum collections and exhibits, and the relationship between museums and Native American communities. In this special thematic issue of Museum Anthropology, we are seeking innovative studies of NAGPRA’s impacts, brief reflections and commentaries, and analyses that investigate the trends of the last two decades and anticipate what is still to come. Particularly welcomed are papers that evaluate whether NAGPRA has led to the kind of spiritual healing that it was intended to facilitate, or whether it has opened old wounds (or made new ones). Viewpoints are encouraged from Native America... |
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| Call for Papers - Museums and Restitution |
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Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. Restitution is one of the most emotive and complex issues facing the museum world in the twenty first century. Its current high profile reflects changing global power relations and the increasingly vocal criticisms of the historical concentration of the world’s heritage in the museums of the West. The 2002 Declaration of the Importance and Value of Universal Museums, which was signed by the directors of eighteen of the world’s most powerful ... |
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| First call for papers - MEG conference 2010 |
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‘Making Things’ From technological interpretations through to gallery-based artistic interventions, museum ethnographers have long grappled with issues of creativity and with the physical techniques and social forces that underpin the making of our material worlds. However, in recent years other topics—collecting processes, disciplinary histories, and questions of ‘materiality’—have come to the fore, often at the expense of pragmatic and material-centred relationships between people and things. This conference seeks to re-engage with the practical elements of the profession. As museum ethnographers we facilitate the passage of material culture from its physical construction amongst source communities through to its careful management in the applied contexts of everyday museum... |
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| Emasculated ethnographic figures |
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I am writing a paper on emasculated ethnographic figures, i.e. those whose penises have been removed, whether by locals, missionaries, dealers, collectors or curators, now in Western collections. To my knowledge, nothing general or comparative has been written on the topic yet. This research is, in part, a very belated consequence of work I did in the '80s on the UK market in tribal art (published in Res 15, 1988). I would be very interested and most grateful to receive any information or examples of this practice in any collection in the world. Some curators have spoken to me of their institution's 'oral history' or of 'hearsay' about what might have happened/very likely did happen in their own institution. These apparently anecdotal reports would be very valuable for me to... |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS: Memory in the Maritime Museum: Objects, Narratives, Identities |
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CALL FOR PAPERS *Memory in the Maritime Museum: Objects, Narratives, Identities* Editors: Helen Beneki, Dr James P. Delgado and Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti We invite papers for a special double issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies, which will explore the following themes related to maritime museums: • the representation of maritime past in exhibitions; • the relationship of the preservation of maritime heritage to the local community; • the re-invention of past (national, regional, local) identities in today's communities through maritime exhibition narratives; and • the role of maritime activity in creating ethnically and culturally diverse populations in seapo... |
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| Indigenous Perspectives one day seminar: provisional details |
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Indigenous Perspectives 9.30am - 4.30pm on Monday 12th October. Pierian Centre, Bristol www.pieriancentre.com Indigenous Perspectives is a conference on Monday 12th October, celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the signing of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It brings together representatives of indigenous peoples from all over the world plus campaigners and academics who specialise in different aspects of the subject. The conference is an opportunity to hear the indigenous voice in all its variety, and to find out how close to silence and extinction it is being pushed. The pressure that the modern world is putting on indigenous cultures is genocidal – and the loss will be ours as much as theirs. The technical k... |
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| Museum Curators and Communities: Embedded Approaches to Participation, Collaboration, Inclusion |
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The Horniman Museum and the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester 2 day Conference Museum Curators and Communities: Embedded Approaches to Participation, Collaboration, Inclusion. 26 – 27 November 2009 Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been significant academic interest in and publications about the relation between museums and communities. In part this is due to changes in the museum and heritage sectors, including new concerns over funding as well as increased competition from non-museum organisations purporting to offer the authentic heritage experience. There have also been some curatorial initiatives from within the museum for more collaborative approaches. However, two other factor... |
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| RAI cartoon competition |
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The RAI's Education Department has launched an international anthropology cartoon contest. The aims of the contest are to promote public engagement and exchange of ideas in anthropology and to include outstanding work by the general public in the RAI¹s upcoming website: Discover Anthropology (to be launched in September). The cartoon contest is part of a series of new initiatives generated by the Education Outreach Programme. We hope that these activities will provide opportunities for people with a passion for anthropology to share their work and take an active involvement in the discipline. Cartoon competition What we are looking for: We... |
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| Contemporary Egyptian art and craft symposium - confirmed speakers |
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KHAMSEEN SYMPOSIUM 8 and 9 July 2009 The Ismaili Centre, London SW7 Khamseen (sandstorm in arabic) will explore how art and craft practice in Cairo is impacting on society through the work of contemporary practitioners and innovative art projects. It will ask how society can nurture traditional skills whilst remaining open to innovation? Why Cairo? Because in Cairo today we have a model where the recognition of the value of traditional skills is in resurgence and is playing a pivotal part in the regeneration of Cairo and artistic practice across the Middle East. Khamseen will bring together leading artists and professionals to discuss the context for this change and how it might relate to contemporary practice here in the UK. |
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| Changing of the guard? The Editor of the Journal of Museum Ethnography |
| After a four-year stint as editor of MEG's Journal of Museum Ethnography, Jeremy Coote is looking to reduce the amount of time he devotes to the Journal. As a result, the Committee would like to hear from anyone who might be interested in the post of Assistant Editor to work with Jeremy on producing JME23 (2010), with a view to perhaps taking over as Editor for JME24 (2011). This is an unpaid post, though an honorarium of ?2,000 per issue is available. The successful candidate is likely to have substantial knowledge and experience of museum ethnography, a good writing style, and a commitment to accuracy and detail. Editorial experience would be an advantage, but training can be given. In recent years, JME has established itself as a professional journal with high academic, intellectual, an... |
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| Assistant Curator, East Asia - job advert |
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National Museums Scotland is one of the UK?s leading museums services. Operating five museums and with one of the largest multidisciplinary collections in the UK, it aims to be a world-class museums service that educates, informs and inspires. A major redevelopment and modernisation programme is currently being implemented across our organisation, including a ?46 million redevelopment of the Royal Museum building. This investment will create new displays, enhance learning and public facilities and provide high quality visitor experiences. Assistant Curator, East Asia ?20,495 - ?24,184 per annum plus membership of Civil Service pension scheme Based at The National Museum of Scotland, you will support the work of the East Asia section of the Department of World ... |
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| FORMING IDEAS Cairo Symposium |
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FORMING IDEAS Cairo Symposium 8 and 9 July 2009 The Ismaili Centre, London SW7 ?Khamseen? Khamseen (sandstorm in Arabic) will explore how art and craft practice in Cairo is impacting on society through the work of contemporary practitioners and innovative art projects. It will question how society can nurture traditional skills whilst remaining open to innovation. Why Cairo? Because in Cairo today we have a model where the recognition of the value of traditional skills is in resurgence and is playing a pivotal part in the regeneration of Cairo and artistic practice across the Middle East. Khamseen will bring together leading artists and professionals to discuss the context for this change and how it might relate to contemporar... |
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| Dazzling the enemy: shields from the Pacific |
 Dazzling the enemy: shields from the Pacifican exhibition at The British Museum, Room 91 14 May ? 16 August 2009 Admission free In the western Pacific, shields are not camouflaged to hide the carrier from the enemy. Rather they are decorated with bold and dazzling designs intended to intimidate opponents. Shield designs may declare the status of the carrier, his strength as a warrior, or the spiritual resources he has supporting him. They also protect him from attack from sling stones, spears, arrows and clubs. This exhibition explores conflict in this region: in particular, it highlights the many remarkable shields used across the region to dazzle and demoralise an enemy in both warfare and ritual. On display are over forty shields... |
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| The Arts of West Papua |
 Seminar at The British MuseumFriday 15 May 2009 This seminar will explore the art, history and culture of West Papua and investigate the contemporary significance of the West Papuan collections held at the British Museum. Academic researchers, West Papuans and non-academic researchers will come together to discuss the current state of research on the material culture of West Papua. There will also be an opportunity to view Dazzling The Enemy: Shields from the Pacific which opens at The British Museum on 14th May. If you are interested in attending the seminar, please contact Julie Adams at: JAdams@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk ... |
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| Research Grants Academic year 2009 ? 2010 Mus?e du quai Branly |
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Every year, the mus?e du quai Branly offers pre- and post-doctoral grants to help doctoral students and young Ph.D. graduates in pursuing innovative research projects. The academic fields concerned are: anthropology, ethnomusicology, art history, history, archaeology, sociology, studies of heritage law/property rights, performance studies. The research topics concerned are: Western and non-Western arts, material and immaterial heritage, museum institutions and their collections, technology and material culture. The projects most likely to benefit from the environment of the mus?e du quai Branly will be examined with particular attention. Laureates will be required to deliver a detailed scientific report to the museum?s research de... |
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| KAUAGE: ARTIST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA EXHIBITION |
 KAUAGE: ARTIST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA an exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge March 18-April 18 2009 Opening event, with lecture by Georgina Beier, on March 17, from 3 pm ** Mathias Kauage was an exuberant painter and a founding figure of modern art in the Pacific. Kauage (c. 1944-2003) was born in Chimbu Province in the Papua New Guinea highlands. In the late 1960s he was employed as a labourer in Port Moresby and was inspired by an exhibition of drawings by a fellow-Highlander, Timothy Akis. Like Akis, he was encouraged by Georgina Beier. Together with her husband Ulli, Georgina influentially supported contemporary art, theatre, and literature in Nigeria, Papua New ... |
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| 'Exploring Food, Connecting Communities' + Social Life of Plants + 'Film Screenings' in March |
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Dear colleagues and friends, This year, as part of the ESRC?s festival of Social Science the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) is running a series of outreach activities in collaboration with various partners, looking at the connections between people, plants and food. The events are open to everyone. Details of the two Open Days and the screening programme are found below, as well as in the attached publicity material. The events are free but booking is required. To book a free place email: education@therai.org.uk or phone: 020 7387 0455. Details of the events: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PLANTS Saturday 7th March 11:00am-4:00pm, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9-3AB. This is a daytime event where anthropologis... |
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| Across the Caucasus: Photographs and Manuscripts from the John F. Baddeley Collection |
 Across the Caucasus: Photographs and Manuscripts from the John F. Baddeley Collection (1 May ? 6 September 2009) After visiting Russia for seven months in 1879, John F. Baddeley (1854-1940) became the St. Petersburg correspondent for the London Standard (now the Evening Standard) and began a lifelong relationship with the Caucasus region, travelling widely and writing several important books on its history, including Russia, Mongolia, China (1919) ? a work which earned him the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. On show in the Museum?s special display case for original photographic material there will be a selection of his photographs, notebooks and exquisite published work, donated to the Museum in 2001 by Lady Cicely Nepean.... |
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| Photographic Exhibition - Pitt Rivers Museum |
 An exhibition ?Carolyn Drake: Photographs of Central Asia?, will be held at the 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, from 14 May ? 15 November 2009This exhibition will show a selection of photographs from award-winning photographer Carolyn Drake?s recent documentary work in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, two small and little-known countries in post-Soviet Central Asia, a landlocked region situated between Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran. Before becoming part of the U.S.S.R., the area was called Turkestan and its people tended to identify themselves by their way of life, either nomadic or sedentary. Communities were organized around regional, clan-like political networks. Most people practised Islam. The Soviet government absorbed these lands in the 1920s,... |
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| Contact and context: working with source communities (C10) |
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There are still some spaces left for the one-day course on 12 February 2009 at London Transport Museum Telephone:020 7426 6940 lorraine@museumsassociation.org Contact and Context Technology and the global village mean that contact with geographically distant communities is possible in a way it has never been before. But managing relationships and maintaining creative dialogue is no less complex, and is more important than ever. This conference will discuss the connections that are being re-established between worldwide ethnographic items and the communities who made and used them. Many UK museums require help and direction with their treatment and presentation of ethnographic objects. The day is for museum professionals who have general responsibility fo... |
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| Museums and Biographies |
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Date/Time 10-12 September 2009 Location National Gallery, London Summary Call for Papers. ?Museums and biographies?. Museums and Galleries History Group and the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University. The conference will bring together those who study the interconnections between museums and galleries, collecting and biography. Drawing together analyses of representation, material culture and personality, we invite papers that can cast new light on the study of lives, objects and display. Abstracts are invited from historians, museologists, artists and others. Papers are invited that consider historical and/or current aspects of the following areas: * The li... |
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| Folklore Society AGM and Conference: ?Collecting Folklore? |
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Date/Time 24 April 2009 - 10.00 - 8.00 p.m. Location The Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH, in the Goss Room Summary The conference will include The Folklore Society Presidential Lecture, by Eddie Cass, and talks by David Atkinson, Paul Cowdell, Ollie Douglas, James H. Grayson, Alison Petch, Doc Rowe, and others. From 6.30 to 8.00, there will be a wine reception for participants in The Folklore Society?s AGM conference, as well as participants in the following day?s ?London Lore? conference organised by Scott Wood of the South East London Folklore Society. Cost Paid in Advance: ?10(?8 concessions) At the Door: ?15 (?10 concessions) Organiser Caroline... |
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| Job advert - NMS Assistant Curators |
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Assistant Curator, Middle East and South Asia, Department of World Cultures. Permanent Post. http://www.nms.ac.uk/assistant_curator_mesa_nms08-71.aspx Assistant Curator, Royal Museum Project, Department of World Cultures. Fixed term post. http://www.nms.ac.uk/assistant_curator_nms08-72.aspx ... |
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| The 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2009 |
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The 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2009 will be held in Leeds, 1 - 4 July 2009 Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, The Northern Film School, Leeds Metropolitan University, and The Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television, Leeds University National Media Museum, Bradford. For submission conditions, entry forms and awarded prizes please check the dedicated Film Festival website www.raifilmfest.org.uk Here you find as well information about the international conference "Emotion in Motion: The Passions of Tourism, T... |
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| Social History and Ethnography |
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Study Day 27 February 2009 Leeds City Museum This seminar is a joint venture between the Social History Curators Group and MEG. Talks from specialists in social history and ethnography will discuss the differences and similarities between the two disciplines. The day will also include a guided tour of the redeveloped Leeds City Museum. Cost: ?20 for MEG/SHCG members. ?30 non-members. Contact adam_jaffer@birmingham.gov.uk for further details or visit the Events section of the MEG website... |
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| Internship in conservation of organic artefacts from Egypt and Sudan |
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Icon ? the Institute of Conservation - is offering a bursary for an 18-months? internship starting March 2009 based in London at the Petrie Museum and the British Museum. The placement is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Information on the placement and details of eligibility can be found on the Icon website www.icon.org.uk. Closing date is 19 January 2009. Carol E. Brown Training Development Manager Icon - The Institute of Conservation 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: 0131 240 5032/5038 www.icon.org.uk ... |
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| AHRC ?Beyond Text? PhD Studentship |
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Museum Studies / Museum Anthropology / Digital Heritage Project: Reanimating cultural heritage: digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in Sierra Leone Applications are invited for a 3-year full-time PhD studentship to be held at University College London in the field of Museum Studies / Museum Anthropology / Digital Heritage. The studentship is associated with a large project funded under the Arts & Humanities Research Council?s ?Beyond Text? programme, which is concerned with innovating ?digital curatorship? in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museumscape. The project considers how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reani... |
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| MA/PhD Studies Scholarships |
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MA Course: The Arts of Africa,Oceania and the Americas. The Sainsbury Research Unit invites applications for the above one-year MA, beginning September 2009. The course combines anthropological, art-historical and archaeological approaches to historical and contemporary material, with a special focus on ethnographical museums. It is intended for students who wish to pursue research and/or museum,academic and related careers. Students receive extensive individual tuition and have full use of the SRU?s major research library. Applicants should have, or be about to achieve, a good undergraduate degree in anthropology, art history, archaeology or a related discipline. Overseas and EU applicants are encouraged to apply. |
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| Emergency Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk |
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Following the press conference in London on September 30th, at which ICOM presented the Emergency Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk, the Council is now looking to disseminate the information as widely as possible. The Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk is available in a leaflet form, in English, Arabic and French. It can be ordered in large quantities for distribution to relevant organisations, groups or individuals. It is also accessible on ICOM?s website at the following address: http://icom.museum/redlist For further information please contact: Anne Touchard Assistant Programme Activities Unit ICOM - International ... |
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| Museums of the Marginalised: Representation and Empowerment |
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One-day conference 25 October 2008 10:00 - 4:30 Horniman Museum, London A conference focusing on the Adivasi, considered to be the descendents of the first inhabitants of India. The exhibition Utsavam-Music from India features the music of an Adivasi community. The conference fee is ?10 (prebooked) and ?15 on the day. For further information about this event please email: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk ... |
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| William Fagg Lecture 2008 |
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The Trustees and Director of the British Museum invite you to The William Fagg Lecture 2008 'Silences in the Museum - Reflections on the European Exotic'. Professor Sally Price, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Thursday October 30th 2008 18.00-19.00 The lecture will be followed by a reception. BP lecture theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1 For further information please contact: Laura Slack, Department of Africa Oceania and the Americas. lslack@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Tel 0207 323 8024. Fax 0207 323 8013. ... |
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| MEG Conference 2009: First Call For Papers |
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Amateur Passions / Professional Practice: ethnography collectors and collections 2-3 April 2009 Bristol Over the last two centuries, museums and the academic discipline of anthropology have developed, bringing increasing professionalism into curatorship and fieldwork. But look at any museum collection, and it is clear that the ?amateur? has been and still is important in ethnographic collecting. What divides the amateur from the professional, and what brings them together? The focus of this year?s conference is on collectors and collections: what drives the one and creates the other? For more information see Conference Page... |
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| Job Advert: Curator/Senior Curator Africa, NMS |
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? 23,375 - ?32,326 per annum plus membership of Civil Service pension scheme To curate, develop and make accessible the African collections within the Oceania, Africa and Americas section of the Department of World Cultures. For more information see: http://www.nms.ac.uk/curator_sencurator_african_nms08-44.aspx Closing date for completed applications is Friday 18 July 2008. ... |
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| Contentious Museum conference |
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The Contentious Museum' conference will be held in Aberdeen on 20-21 November 2008. The sixth biennial University Museums in Scotland conference, it will draw together a variety of people with professional, academic and community interests in museums in Scotland and elsewhere. The conference website with draft programme is now live at www.abdn.ac.uk/contentiousmuseum and registrations can now be taken.... |
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| Quai Branly - Human Remains Symposium Website |
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The research and teaching department of the Quai Branly museum has just finished transcribing and translating the international symposium on human remains repatriation issues held on the 22nd and 23rd of February 2008 in Paris. They have just posted on the museum's website the original version (in French, English and Maori) and the integral French version of this symposium. Website in English |
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| Virtual European Assocation of Museum Ethnographers - proposal to set up group |
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Virtual European Association of Museum Ethnographers [VEAME] At the 2008 MEG Annual General Meeting, members agreed that it would be a good idea to investigate the possibilities of setting up a virtual group to foster more formal links with European colleagues and take the opportunity to shape the agenda for European museum ethnography. MEG is a UK based organization, and its charitable status means that it must put its UK responsibilities first. In any case, there are some specific issues which are still primarily UK ones, likely to be interesting only to museums from the UK. But there are many, many issues, debates and solutions which are of interest to all museum ethnographers in Europe. One of the possible solutions would be to establish a mailgroup and... |
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| New Committee Members |
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At the AGM, held at the conference in Oxford on 11th April, a number of new committee members were elected. Alison Petch was elected as the new President of MEG. Fiona Kerlogue of the Horniman Museum, Helen Mears from Brighton, Alison Clark from the British Museum were all elected as new committee members. Claire Warrior from the National Maritime Museum was elected as a committee member having previously been a co-opted member. Emma Martin, former president, Alison Brown and Tony Eccles have left the committee.... |
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| Exhibiting Polynesia: past, present and future |
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Symposium, Mus?e du Quai Branly, Paris, 17-18 June 2008 Exhibiting Polynesia: past, present and future This is a preliminary announcement for a symposium being held to coincide with the opening of the exhibition, Polyn?sie: arts et divinit?s 1760-1860, at the Mus?e du Quai Branly in Paris (16 June ? 14 September 2008).* The symposium, which is jointly convened by the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the D?partement de la recherche et de l'enseignement at the Mus?e du Quai Branly, will take place on Tuesday-Wednesday 17-18 June 2008. The principal aim is to bring together curators, researchers, academics and artists from the Pacific, Europe and America who have an interest in Polynesian art and material cultur... |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS "Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage" |
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ICOM-ICME annual meeting, Jerusalem November 17-19, 2008 ICME (the ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography) will hold its2008 annual conference ?Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage? in Jerusalem on 17-19 November, 2008. The meeting will be hosted by The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum and the Jerusalem Foundation in collaboration with ICOM-Israel, L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem, and U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art. Final details are still being confirmed, but the general format of the annual meeting will consist of paper and discussion sessions, museum visits including discussions with staff, and walking tours with community scholars. The conference will be preceded by a one... |
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| 'The Contentious Museum' |
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'The Contentious Museum' conference will be held in Aberdeen on 20-21 November 2008. The sixth biennial University Museums in Scotland conference, it will draw together a variety of people with professional, academic and community interests in museums in Scotland and elsewhere. Museums have become increasingly contentious places, engaging with debates on issues such as repatriation, genocide, slavery, censorship, power and the treatment of human remains. This conference will discuss how responding to such challenges enables museums to depart from tradition and embrace different ways of thinking, working and developing new audiences. Proposals are invited for individual papers of 30 minutes. Proposals should take the form of an outline of the topic to be cov... |
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| Celebrating Diversity and Looking at the Impact of the Slave-Trade and Multiculturalism today |
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Part of the Hunterian Diversity Initiative Funded by Awards for All. Wednesday 5th March 2008 10am - 4pm Free of Charge As part of the bicentenary of the Hunterian Museum and to mark the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, we are pleased to offer this 1-day event, free of charge, to celebrate diversity and explore the impact of the slave-trade and multiculturalism today. Full programme will be available early 2008. To register interest please call 0141 330 2375 or email pkidd@museum.gla.ac.uk. Hunterian Museum, Gilbert Scott Building, University Ave, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ ... |
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| Pasold 2008 - Childhood Clothing Conference |
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| Extreme Collecting |
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Series of workshops held at the British Museum between December 2007 and March 2008. See 'Events' for further details.... |
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| J.B. Donne Essay Prize - deadline Dec 15th |
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J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art (Biennial). Entries are invited for the J.B. Donne Essay Prize, offered biennially in memory of the late J.B. Donne. Essays should address some aspect of the anthropology of art, including the visual and performing arts. Word limit: 10,000 words exclusive of footnotes and references. Entrants may be of any nationality. It is likely that the winning essay will be published by the Institute, and essays already offered for publication elsewhere are not eligible. Judges will be appointed by the Institute's Council, and are under no obligation to award a prize for any given occasion. The prize will be ?700. Entries to be submitted in duplicate to the Office Manager, Royal Anthropological Instit... |
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| Job advert - Principal Curator, Middle East and South Asia |
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National Museums Scotland is one of the UK?s leading museums services. Operating five museums and with one of the largest multidisciplinary collections in the UK, it aims to be a world-class museums service that educates, informs and inspires. A major redevelopment and modernisation programme is currently being implemented across our organisation, including a ?47 million redevelopment of the Royal Museum. This investment will create new displays, enhance learning and public facilities and provide high quality visitor experiences. Principal Curator, Middle East and South Asia ?29,525 - ?41,621 per annum plus membership of Civil Service pension scheme You will be responsible for the ... |
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| UEA Conference: Image as Embodiment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives |
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University of East Anglia 9-10 November 2007. The aim of this symposium is to develop a series of ongoing topical workshops between academic disciplines and regional specialisations that focus on the sensual matter of our material world. It will be an excellent opportunity for researchers, students, and professionals from all disciplines to network and to identify opportunities for new research projects, and collaborations. A range of acclaimed international speakers will be presenting their work (see list below), with time for discussion by participants. This symposium is a part of a new initiative by the Sainsbury Research Unit and is part of the new Groupement De Recherche International (GDRI) entitled ?Anthropology and History of the Arts? hosted at the Mus?e du Quai B... |
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| MEG Conference 2008 - Advance Notice |
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Advance notice of the 2008 MEG Conference 10 - 11 April 2008, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The theme will be 'Museum Ethnography at Home'. This conference will explore the many aspects of museum ethnography at home. Papers might consider the kind of issues that arise when carrying out ethnographic research in a home country or else look at historic research or historic collections of 'home' material. Contact: Alison Petch - alison.petch@prm.ox.ac.uk - 01865 613000... |
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| MEG Constitution |
| Our constitution is undergoing some development at present but if you'd like to speak to someone about its content and future form please get in touch with the MEG Secretary, Tabitha Cadbury (tabitha.cadbury@plymouth.gov.uk).... |
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| JME19 Loaded to Website |
| The contents of the latest issue of the Journal of Museum Ethnography (JME19) have now been added to the website. PDFs of all the papers, articles, and reviews are available for active members to download.... |
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| Plymouth World Cultures online |
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The website is one of outcomes of Plymouth's 'Access Regeneration to World Cultures' HLF funded project. It currently features 78 items from the collections, ranging from a ceremonial belt and carved figure collected by the missionary, Henry Moore Dauncey, in Papua New Guinea to the boots of Gertrude Benham, a pioneering mountaineer and world traveller who collected over 700 of the items in the Plymouth World Cultures collection. The web pages include pictures of the objects and a general description. Many pages also have public comments about the artefacts which were collected at various events over the past four years. In addition, some pages include teachers notes to enable schools to use the website for curriculum activities. The link is http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/world... |
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| Project Assistant (Human History) - Job Advert |
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Project Assistant (Human History) Community Leisure and Learning - Museums and Heritage Scale 4 ?16,137 to ?17,985) 9 month fixed term contract 37 hours per week Please quote reference: 062/7453 Your role will be to assist in the completion of the Access Regeneration to World Cultures project, including re-packing, storage and documentation of our world cultures collection. You will then assist with the dismantling and processing of objects related to the People?s Plymouth exhibition. You will have experience of working in a museum environment (preferably with ethnographic, human or social history collections) and should be able to demonstrate both excellent practical and communication skills. You should be educated to degree level in a rele... |
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| Journal of Museum Ethnography - books available for review |
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Edwards, Elizabeth, Chris Gosden and Ruth B. Phillips (eds.). 2006. Sensible objects: colonialism, museums and material culture (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series). Oxford and New York: Berg. Henare, Amiria, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell (eds.). 2007. Thinking through things: theorising artefacts ethnographically. London and New York: Routledge. Message, Kylie. 2006. New museums and the making of modern culture. Oxford and New York: Berg. Paine, Sheila. 2006. Embroidery from Afghanistan (Fabric Folios series). London: British Museum Press. Serrel, Beverly. 2006. Judging exhibitions: a framework for assessing excellence. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. Sloan, Kim. 2007. A New World: England?s first view of America. London: British M... |
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| Booking Form for MEG conference 2007 |
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See Events Calendar for conference programme Booking Form Conference Fees: ?50 MEG member (full) ?80 non-member ?40 MEG member (concession*) ?65 non-member (concession*) Please note that MEG membership is only ?25, concessions ?20. (Airmail is ?7 if required.) Therefore by joining MEG you will save money on your conference fees. Conference fees include sandwich lunch and refreshments on both days as well as the drinks reception on Monday evening. Conference Dinner: A dinner will be held on Monday and the meal will cost approximately ?25, with a ?10 deposit payable in advance. Accommodation: Greenwich is a popular tourist destination, and there are several hotels in the vicinity, i... |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS - CLOTHING CHILDHOOD, FASHIONING SOCIETY: CHILDREN?S CLOTHING IN BRITAIN IN THE 20TH CENTURY |
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CALL FOR PAPERS CLOTHING CHILDHOOD, FASHIONING SOCIETY: CHILDREN?S CLOTHING IN BRITAIN IN THE 20TH CENTURY 17-18 January 2008 at the Foundling Museum, London WC1 PASOLD RESEARCH FUND (www.pasold.co.uk) 2008 PASOLD CONFERENCE In association with the Department of Anthropology, University College London With the London College of Fashion Conference Organiser: Dr Kaori O?Connor, UCL Email: k.o?connor@ucl.ac.uk Pasold Organiser: Professor Pat Hudson, Director, Pasold Research Fund The Pasold Research Fund, the leading independent textile research funding body in the UK, owes its existence to the success of Ladybi... |
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| Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI): Conference: The Globe in a Glass Case: Ethnographic Collections in Ireland |
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Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI): Conference: Ethnographic Collections in Ireland Venue: National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin Friday-Saturday, 11-12 May 2007 A conference on the topic of Ethnographic Collections in Ireland will be held on Friday-Saturday 11-12 May 2007 in the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin. It is under the auspices of the Anthropological Association of Ireland and will be organised by Dr S?amas ? S?och?in, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Dr Adam Drazin, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Pauline Garvey (NUIM). Conference proceedings will later be published as a special number of the Irish Journa... |
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| Job advert - Northamptonshire Black History Association – Shaping the Future |
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Northamptonshire Black History Association – Shaping the Future Northamptonshire Black History Association are looking to recruit a freelance Ethnographer to work on a new Heritage Lottery Funded project called ‘Shaping the Future’ to develop the integration of Black British History into the collections and interpretation at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. Northamptonshire Black History Association has acquired funding to carry out this exciting project, which will involve reviewing the ethnographic collections to provide us with identification and interpretative information. This will involve working in conjunction with members of the black community in Northampton, museum staff as well as a freelance educational consultant to develop le... |
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| Job Advert - NMS |
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The National Museums Scotland cares for Scotland’s priceless collections of art and design, science and technology, world cultures and the natural world. It manages six museums which welcome 1.5 million local, national and international visitors a year, and provides advice to museums across Scotland. With a new vision, we are embarking on a dynamic programme of development to open up our collections and engage new audiences. Assistant Curator - Oceania, Americas, Africa (NMS07/03) Assistant Curator - East and Central Asia (NMS07/04) 2 Year Fixed Term Contracts ?18,741 - ?23,245 per annum (under review) plus pension These temporary posts will assist with the Royal Museum Project as it relate... |
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| Call for Papers for Conference of European Association of Southeast Asian Studies. |
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Call for Papers for Conference of European Association of Southeast Asian Studies. University of Naples, 12 to 15 September 2007. Panel on Southeast Asian collections in European Museums The panel will provide an opportunity for colleagues working in or with museums in Europe to share knowledge and interpretations of Southeast Asian collections at the museums concerned. Following on from work undertaken in the Netherlands on the history of Indonesian collections (Schefold and Vermeulen 2002), the panel invites scholars and museum curators to consider the ways in which Southeast Asian collections, whether containing manuscripts, art or ethnography, have developed in European museums, and what this reveals both about the nature of the rel... |
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| Call for papers- MEG Conference 2007: Objects of Trade |
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Objects of Trade MEG Annual UK Conference 2007, Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 May National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London The importance of exchange in creating and sustaining relationships has long been one of the fundamental tenets of anthropology. Trade, sometimes assumed to be primarily an economic transaction, also involves the development of relationships that link groups together. Trading relationships do not just involve exchanges of goods, but rather are part of a wider system of circulating values. Such relationships may have profound effects, particularly when they involve representatives of different cultural groups, as different systems of value come into contact with one another. Collections of ethnographic artefacts have often been ... |
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| Call for Papers - Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel |
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Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel Leeds Metropolitan University, UK: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change 19th-23rd July 2007. We seek to explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material culture - the built environment, infrastructures, consumer and household goods, art, souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes etc. Further details and updates available from our website at www.tourism-culture.com. We would welcome your participation as a delegate or paper presenter. Professor Mike Robinson, Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change Email ctcc@leedsmeet.ac.uk Telephone 0113 283 85 40 Web www.tourism-culture.com... |
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| Call for Papers - Courtauld Costume Conference: Black and White |
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Courtauld History of Dress Association (CHODA) Black and white 29 and 30 June 2007 Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Papers are solicited that draw on a wide variety of symbolic, cultural and technical aspects of black and white dress, from a diversity of approaches and a spread of historical periods and geographical areas. Topics may include: the symbolism of black and white dress, the different social occasions on which black and white are worn, the technical production of black and white fabric, fashion in film, dress in photography and key figures or events associated with black and white dress. We welcome proposals from academics, research students, museum curators, practitioners and independent scholars. Preference will be give... |
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| Job Advert - Brighton |
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Brighton & Hove City Council Researcher/Interpreter (The Rules of Attraction) ?5,000 Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Full-time for 3 months or part-time for 6 months Your stories inspiring lives. Brighton & Hove Museums is planning a major project exploring human and animal courtship. Our city has long played a special role in courtship - from George IV's 'pleasure palace' to the 'dirty weekend', from rutting to reproduction. We hope to use this universally appealing theme to encourage new visitors to the museum and to challenge our existing ones. Your passion for objects and specimens will be central to your exploration of items in our celebrated collections. You will tease out new meanings and stories to explore cou... |
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| Caribbean Identities Exploring Historical and Cultural Diversity |
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Caribbean Identities Exploring Historical and Cultural Diversity Call for Papers: Papers are called for on subjects relating to the history and memory, ethnography, archaeology, linguistics, music and politics of the Caribbean islands and the Guianas (i.e. Guyana, Venezuela, Surinam and French Guiana). Each paper should not be longer than 5,000 words and include at least not more than 4 images. The selected papers will be published in the Horniman Museum’s Critical Museology and Material Culture series (see past publications on Horniman museum website www.horniman.ac.uk). All papers should reach, Dr. Hassan Arero, Keeper of Anthropology, by the 31st March 2007; either by email: harero@horniman.ac.uk or by post: 100 L... |
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| Events Questionnaire |
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We are in the process of re-evaluating our events programme. At present, events are free to MEG members and are held on a quarterly basis. A questionnaire is being circulated with the current newsletter so please take some time to complete it so that we can improve the events provision for our members. If you would prefer an electronic version please email adam_jaffer@birmingham.gov.uk... |
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| Museum Ethnographers Group - Ethnographic film Questionnaire |
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Please take the time to read, complete, (print out) and return this questionnaire, even if your institution has no holdings of ethnographic film – thank-you! Introduction As noted in the last Newsletter, at the 2005 MEG conference in Manchester, both Paul Henley (Professor of Visual Anthropology and Director, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester) and Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer, Royal Anthropological Institute) voiced an interest in exploring closer links with museums and a wider discussion on the curatorship of ethnographic film. The MEG Committee has discussed this in various ways over the last year. This year’s conference also underlined the importance of film as a way of presenting aspects of ‘intangible he... |
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| New 'Explorers' gallery agreed for Torquay |
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Torquay Museum has received confirmation of a sizeable HLF grant to support the creation of a new world cultures gallery to fit their overall theme of "Explorers". This will highlight the considerable ethnographic collections of the Museum, including Chinese material collected by Charles Paget-Blake in the 1840s and 1850s while he was assistant surgeon on the HMS Cornwallis. Other major regions represented are Japan, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Australia, India, Burma, Tibet, Southern Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Peru. The new gallery is scheduled to open in July 2007.... |
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| ?Looking Back, Looking Forward?: MEG Conference 9?10 May 2005 at Manchester Museum |
 The 30th Anniversary conference of MEG was held in the recently completed extension of Manchester Museum. At the Reception on Monday evening delegates were welcomed by the Director Tristram Besterman and a special anniversary cake was enjoyed by all. It was a most appropriate venue since George Bankes, now Honorary Research Associate in Anthropology of Manchester Museum was one of the founding members of MEG. Peter Gathercole and Len Pole paid tribute to George?s long contribution to, and enthusiasm for, both Museum Ethnography and MEG. Delegates had the opportunity to view the two Living Cultures galleries. This was a much larger version of the successful ?Explorers and Encounters? exhibition made possible by the newly-completed gallery space and HLF funding. The evening ended with ...
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| Melanesian Art: Objects, Narratives and Indigenous Owners |
 A Goldsmiths College and British Museum research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2005-2010The Melanesia Project will explore the relationships between a wide range of indigenous art and artefact forms, socially-significant narratives, and the indigenous communities from which historic collections of Melanesian art derive. Focusing on the important but largely unstudied Melanesian collections in the British Museum, this project aims to bring new perspectives to both the study of indigenous art, and the understanding of ownership, heritage, and relations between museums and communities. The project will assess approaches to art in anthropology, aiming to move beyond the current stand-off between meaning-oriented perspectives, and those building on G... |
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