Collections and Identity Conference - call for papers

Collections and Identity

Egham Museum & Royal Holloway University Centre for Public History

Friday 2^nd May 2014

Egham Museum is hosting a one-day conference on ‘Collections and Identity’ at the Proctor & Gamble Innovation Centre, Egham.  The conference is aimed at Postgraduate Museum Studies Students, and will explore questions surrounding museum collections, their function, value, and future.

Key Note Speakers include: Maurice Davies, Head of Policy and Communications, The Museums Association; and Ellie Miles, Interpretation Officer at the British Museum.

Deadline for Abstracts is 31^st January 2014

Paper deadline is 28^th February 2014.

Submissions: curator@eghammuseum.org

Culture Clash? Contemporary arts in historic contexts

Hi everybody
I thought you'd like details of a conference I'm speaking at in February. Below is the official blurb and programme.

Culture Clash? Contemporary arts in historic contexts

Royal Museums Greenwich, London, February 14, 2014

To coincide with the latest in a series of contemporary interventions, 
Yinka Shonibare MBE at Greenwich, Royal Museums Greenwich is hosting a 
one day conference to explore the role of contemporary art outside the 
white cube.
In recent years it has become increasingly popular for museums and 
historic buildings to invite living artists to respond to their 
buildings or collections by curating, creating or performing on site. 
What has been the impact of this popular collaborative trend for 
artists, museums and their audiences?

Themes addressed by the conference include: the artist as curator/the 
curator as artist; contemporary art, memory and commemoration; the 
relationship between artists, museums and the market; artists’ 
residencies and audience engagement.

Programme

09.00–09.50: Registration and refreshments

10.00–11.30: Session 1: Approaches and Challenges

New Visions of the Sea: Assessing the Legacy of Contemporary Art at the 
National Maritime Museum, 1999–2009
Helen Hillyard, National Gallery

The Challenges Faced by Local Authority-Managed Museums and Settings
Julien Parsons and Martin Thomas and, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 
Exeter

Contemporary Arts, Historic Contexts… and the Law
Dr Antoinette Maget Dominicé, University of Lucerne

11.30–12.00: Coffee and tea break

12.00–13.00: Session 2: Interpreting and Animating Sites and Collections

Talking Back: Artists Working with Natural History Collections from 
Australia, China and India
Bergit Arends, independent curator

The Haunting of a Shrine: Contemporary Art at the Brontë Parsonage 
Museum
Nick Cass, University of Leeds

13.00–14.00: Lunch

14.00–15.30: Session 3: Collaboration, Dialogue and (Mis)Understanding
Disturbing the Comfortable
Melissa Hamnett, V&A

How Do We See Each Other? Dialogue and Exchange in Native American 
Curatorial Methodologies
Helen Shaw, University of York

Playing with the Past
Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller, Carson & Miller

15.30–15.45: Break

15.45–16.45: Keynote: to be confirmed

17.00–19.00: Reception and curator tour of Yinka Shonibare MBE at 
Greenwich in the Queen’s House

The fee is £50 (concessions £40) and includes lunch and refreshments. 
For more information and booking form please contact research@rmg.co.uk 
or call 020 8312 6716 or visit www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/conferences