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Brown Bags 2011/12
The Museum Studies Research Seminar Series 2011/12
The Museum Studies Research Seminar is an informal ‘brown bag’ (bring a sandwich!) group that meets at least once every two to four weeks, on Wednesdays at 1.00pm, in the Collections Room at the School of Museum Studies, 19 University Road, LE17RF. Museum studies is an inter-disciplinary field and all are welcome.
For further details please contact Viv Golding (vmg4@le.ac.uk)
2012
Wednesday 18 January, Speaker: Dr Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Research, University of Sunderland
Title: 'Curating after New Media Art: Museums and Audiences’
Sandra Dudley, Catharina Hendrick
Wednesday 25 January, Speaker: Dr Marilena Alivizatou, UCL London
Title: ‘Intangible Heritage’
Suzanne MacLeod, Laura Diaz Ramos
Wednesday 1 February, Speaker: Kirsten Claiden-Yardley (PhD student, History, University of Oxford); Dr Jackie Hall (Project Manager, University of Leicester); Nishad Karim (PhD student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester)
Title: 'Representing Re-Formation': seeing museum studies in a multi-disciplinary research context'
Ross Parry (chairing session), Wijitra Suriyakul Na Ayudhya
Wednesday 22 February, Speaker: Dr Chris Collins, Head of Conservation, Natural History Musuem, London
Title: 'Conservation'
Dave Unwin , Gudrun Whitehead
Wednesday 29 February,
Speaker: Mike Pickering, National Museum Australia
Title: 'Voices from the Wilderness: The Canning Stock Route'
Janet Marstine, Elee Kirk
Wednesday 7 March, Speaker: Dr Sally MacDonald, Director, UCL Museums, Collections and Public Engagement Vice-Provost's Office
Title: 'Museums, Collections and Cultural Diplomacy - some reflections from UCL'
Jocelyn Dodd, Helen Wilkinson
Wednesday 14 March, Speaker: Jennifer Morgan, University of Manchester (PhD student)
Title: 'Change and Everyday Practice at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study'
Richard Sandell, Mona Al Ali
Wednesday 21 March, Speaker: Kathy Cremin (Clore Fellow)
Title: ‘Community Engagement’
Jocelyn Dodd, Helen Wilkinson
Wednesday 28 March, Speaker: Dr Stephanie Pratt, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth
Title: "Art, artefact or 'thing-being': raising the stakes in museum curation and interpretation of Native American histories through their objects/material culture."
Katy Bunning, Jade Keun Kye Lim
Wednesday 9 May, Speaker: Dr Janet Ulph, Law School (Uni of Leicester)
Title: 'Disposals' - "air your views" seminar
Wednesday 16 May Speaker: Dr Jeanette Atkinson
Title: 'Exchanging values: steampunks and museums'
Katy Bunning and Catharina Hendrick
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2011 (Papers available to Musuem Studies PhD students)
Wednesday 5 October, Speaker: Reiji Takayasu, Head of Public Services
Title: 'Museum Literacy and Science Communication in Japan'
Viv Golding, Masanori Oki
Wednesday 9 November, Speaker: Britta Zetterström Geschwind, History of Religions and Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm University
Title: ‘Museums as Spaces for Learning: Shops and Entrances’
Viv Golding, Catharina Hendrick
Wednesday 23 November, Speaker: Kevin Harris, Local Level
Title: 'I didn't know I could': museums and young people looked after’
Sheila Watson, Marianne Tseliou
Wednesday 30 November, Speaker: Kate Hill, Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln
Title: 'York Castle Museum, social history of museums'
Simon Knell, Julia Petrov
Wednesday 7 December, Speaker: Dr Sam Alberti, Director, The Royal College of Surgeons
Title: 'The Past, Present and Future of Medical Museums'
Ceri Jones, Stephanie Bowry
