| Event title | Contact and context: working with source communities (C10) |
| Details | 1000-1600
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 for these collections but do not necessarily have specialist expertise to hand. It is also for career ethnographers wanting an overview of recent developments and current best practice in the discipline as a whole.
Who is it for?
• anyone responsible for managing or interpreting collections or objects from a diverse range of world cultures
• anyone responsible for contacts with individuals, organisations, communities and peoples overseas.
What will I learn?
• how to use collections from world cultures in new ways
• how to establish and maintain dialogues with people from communities where objects originated
• how contacts can be established, and continuing relationships maintained, without enormous expenditure
• to use multiple voices in the interpretation of objects.
Speakers
Chantal Knowles
Principal curator of Oceania, Americas and Africa, National Museums Scotland
Lissant Bolton
Curator, head of Oceania section, department of Africa, Oceania and Americas, British Museum
Stephanie Pratt
Reader in art history, faculty of arts, University of Plymouth
Rosanna Raymond Polynesian curator, researcher, performer, artist, and lecturer, London
Phil Philo
Senior curator, The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
Carolyn Wingfield
Curator, Saffron Walden Museum
Len Pole
Independent museums consultant
Fees:
MA Individual, Institutional or Corporate member £115
MA Individual member: prospective AMA £90
MA student, retired or unwaged member £50
Non-member £190
Institutional members and prospective AMA's CANNOT book online and should download a PDF below... |
Click here for programme and booking form, December 2008 to March 2009 (pdf) |
| Fee | £See highlighted box |
| Dates | 12 February 2009 |
| Venue | London Transport Museum |
| Organiser | Museums Association Conferences and Events |
| Address | 24 Calvin Street
London
E1 6NW
United Kingdom |
| Tel | 020 7426 6940 |
| Fax | 020 7426 6961 |
| Email | lorraine@museumsassociation.org |
| Contact | Conference and Events Department |
