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Museum Community Newsletter
ON MUSEUMS, November 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - http://www.Museum-Conference.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------** Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum **
8-10 July 2009
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.Museum-Conference.com
** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.
** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Museum Conference, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration.
** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Inclusive Museum Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. Visit the CGPublisher Creator page at http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.
** Create a YouTube Presentation **
Whether presenting at the Conference or virtually, we encourage all participants to present on the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum YouTube Channel. These presentation recordings will be published to YouTube with a link to your Session Description on the Conference website, and (if your paper is accepted to the Journal), a link to the abstract of your paper on the Journal website. YouTube presentations may also be created for past presentations and published papers. For instructions on how to create and upload these presentations, visit the Conference website at http://z09.cg-conference.com/online-presentations.
[2] Journal News - http://www.Museum-Journal.com/
-----------------------------------------------------------------** International Journal of the Inclusive Museum **
Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.
Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy. If you have received your PDF proof for approval, please check your PDF proof by the due date and either request corrections or accept the typeset copy as-is.
------------------------------------------------[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------** Conference News **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
www.Arts-Conference.com
Texts and Tours: Developing the Potential of Literary Tourism
5 December 2008, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=1
National Conference for Academic Disciplines
16-19 February 2009, University of Central Florida, South Orlando, USA
http://www.internationaljournal.org/orlandoconference.html
California Association of Museums
26-27 February, 2009, San Francisco, USA
http://www.calmuseums.org/conferences_and_workshops/2009overview.html
Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
4-7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan
www.tourism-culture.com
Curating Difficult Knowledge
16-18 April 2009, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://cerev.concordia.ca
103rd Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, American Association of Museums
30 April to 4 May 2009, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.aam-us.org/am/am09.cfm
[4] Subscribe
-------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sent to people who have attended or are registered for the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum or have published in the Inclusive Museum Journal. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive this newsletter, please refer them to http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html .
If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email with the word 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line. Make sure to send your request to unsubscribe from the same e-mail address that received the newsletter.
ON MUSEUMS, October 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - http://www.Museum-Conference.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------** Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum **
8-10 July 2009, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.Museum-Conference.com
** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see:
http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal:
http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.
** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present can register at any time. For registration options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Museum Conference see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration.
** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Inclusive Museum Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page at http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.
[2] Journal News - http://www.Museum-Journal.com/
-----------------------------------------------------------------** International Journal of the Inclusive Museum - Volume 1 (2008) **
Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.
Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy. If you have received your PDF proof for approval, please check your PDF proof by the due date and either request corrections or accept the typeset copy as-is.
------------------------------------------------[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------** Conference News **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
www.Arts-Conference.com
Texts and Tours: Developing the Potential of Literary Tourism
5 December 2008, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
Website: http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=1
Contact name: Daniela Carl
National Conference for Academic Disciplines
16-19 February 2009, University of Central Florida, South Orlando, Florida, USA
Website: http://www.internationaljournal.org/orlandoconference.html
Contact name: Dr Joseph Bonnici, Central Connecticut State Univiversity
California Association of Museums
26-27 February, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.calmuseums.org/conferences_and_workshops/2009overview.html
Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
4-7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan
www.tourism-culture.com
Contact name: Mike Robinson
Curating Difficult Knowledge
16-18 April 2009, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://cerev.concordia.ca
103rd Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, American Association of Museums
30 April to 4 May 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.aam-us.org/am/am09.cfm
[4] Subscribe
-------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sent to people who have attended or are registered for the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, or have published in the Inclusive Museum Journal. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive this newsletter, please refer them to
http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html
If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email with the word 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line. Make sure that you send your request to unsubscribe from the same e-mail address that received the newsletter.
ON MUSEUMS, September 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - http://www.Museum-Conference.com /
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------** Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum **
8-10 July 2009, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.museum-conference.com
** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.
** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present can register at any time. For registration options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Museum Conference see:
http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration.
** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Inclusive Museum Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page at
http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.
[2] Journal News - http://www.Museum-Journal.com/
-----------------------------------------------------------------** International Journal of the Inclusive Museum - Volume 1 (2008) **
Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.
Authors are notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you are requested to referee, please submit your report by the requested due date. We appreciate the participation of all requested referees.
If your paper is accepted for publication and your registration payment has been confirmed, the authors will receive a publishing agreement. Once the authors have agreed to the publishing agreement the final paper can be uploaded.
Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy. If you have received your PDF proof for approval, please check your PDF proof by the due date and either request corrections or accept the typeset copy as-is.
** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers please email
cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests, and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.
[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------** Conference News **
Sixth International Conference on the Book
25-27 October 2008, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.Book-Conference.com/
Representing the Everyday in American Visual Culture
12-13 September 2008, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv/
International Museum Design Symposium
14 October 2008, London, UK
Email: greg@heritage365.com
Gazing into the 21st Century
16-18 October 2008, Goettweig, Austria
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
Making National Museums (NaMu)
17-19 November 2008, University of Oslo, Norway
http://www.namu.se/images/Docs/namu6firstcall.pdf
California Association of Museums
26-27 February 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.calmuseums.org/conferences_and_workshops/2009overview.html
Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
4-7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan
www.tourism-culture.com
Curating Difficult Knowledge
16-18 April 2009, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://cerev.concordia.ca
103rd Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, American Association of Museums
30 April - May 4 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.aam-us.org/am/am09.cfm
** Field School **
International Field School in Museums & Sustainable Heritage Development
6-21 December 2008, Vietnam
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=66307&pid;=37084
** Websites **
The MuseumsWiki is the international collaborative website for museum professionals and other experts in the field of cultural heritage. It is intended for museum personnel to participate in providing museum-related material like abstracts, experiences, links, papers, projects, recommendations, and more. Especially other collaborative websites related to cultural heritage are invited to be presented in the MuseumsWiki.
Help for participation is available at
http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Contents
http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Museums:FAQ
[4] Subscribe
-------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sent to people who have attended or are registered for the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, or have published in the Inclusive Museum Journal. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive this newsletter, please refer them to http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html.
If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email with the word 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line. Make sure that you send your request to unsubscribe from the same e-mail address that received the newsletter.
ON MUSEUMS, August 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - http://www.Museum-Conference.com /
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------** Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum **
8-10 July 2009, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.museum-conference.com
** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.
** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present can register at any time. For registration options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Musuem Conference see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration
** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Inclusive Museum Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page at http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.
[2] Journal News - http://www.museum-journal.com/
----------------------------------------------------------** International Journal of the Inclusive Museum - Volume 1 (2008) **
Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.
Authors are notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you are asked to referee, please submit your report by the requested due date. We appreciate the participation of all requested referees.
** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.
[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------** Conference News **
Sixth International Conference on the Book
25-27 October 2008, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
http://www.Book-Conference.com/
Representing the Everyday in American Visual Culture
12-13 September 2008, University of Nottingham (UK)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv/
Making National Museums (NaMu)
17-19 November 2008, University of Oslo, Norway
http://www.namu.se/images/Docs/namu6firstcall.pdf
Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
4-7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan
www.tourism-culture.com
Curating Difficult Knowledge
16-18 April 2009, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://cerev.concordia.ca
** Field School **
International Field School in Museums & Sustainable Heritage Development
6-21 December 2008, Vietnam
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=66307&pid;=37084
** Websites **
The MuseumsWiki is the international collaborative website for museum professionals and other experts in the field of cultural heritage. It is intended for museum personnel to participate in providing museum-related material like abstracts, experiences, links, papers, projects, recommendations, and more. Especially other collaborative websites related to cultural heritage are invited to be presented in the MuseumsWiki.
Help for participation is available at
http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Contents
http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Museums:FAQ
[4] Subscribe
-------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sent to people who have attended or are registered for the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, or have published in the Inclusive Museum Journal. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive this newsletter, please refer them to http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html
If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email with the word 'Unsubscribe' in the subject line. Make sure that you send your request to unsubscribe from the same e-mail address that received the newsletter.
ON MUSEUMS, July 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - http://www.museum-conference.com /
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------** Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum **
8-10 July 2009, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.museum-conference.com
** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.
** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present can register at any time. For registration options, see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Musuem Conference see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/registration
** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Inclusive Museum Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page at
http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.
[2] Journal News - http://www.museum-journal.com/
----------------------------------------------------------** International Journal of the Inclusive Museum - Volume 1 (2008) **
Paper submissions are open for Volume 1 of the Journal.
Submission guidelines can be found at http://z08.cgpublisher.com/publish.html
You can submit your paper until one month after the conference close date or 11 July 2008.
Authors are notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you are asked to referee, please submit your report by the requested due date. We appreciate the participation of all requested referees.
** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers, please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com, provide a short resume and research interests, and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.
[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------** Conference News **
Third International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2008, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK
http://www.arts-conference.com/
Fear of the unknown: Can gallery interpretation help visitors learn about
art and material culture?
19-21 November 2008, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
http://www.vam.ac.uk
National Preservation Annual Conference 2008
21-25 October 2008, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/calendar-of-events/national-preservation-conference/npc2008.html
Migration in Museums: Narratives of Diversity in Europe
23-25 October 2008, Six Berlin-based Museums, Berlin, Germany
Call for papers deadline: 30 May 2008
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2008
Museum Computer Network (MCN)
Let's do I.T. Right! 36th Annual MCN Conference
12-15 November 2008, Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel, Washington, DC, USA
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp
[4] Subscribe
-------------------------------------------------This newsletter is sent to people who have attended or are registered for the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, or have published in the Inclusive Museum Journal. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive this newsletter, please refer them to http://ijz.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html
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ON MUSEUMS, April 2008
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In this issue
-------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------[1] Conference News - www.Museum-Conference.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------**The International Conference on the Inclusive Museum**
8-11 June 2008
National Museum of Ethnology
Leiden, the Netherlands
To submit a proposal, please see:
http://z08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/new_proposal_entry
To register for the conference, please see:
https://secure.cgpublisher.com//conferences/110/web/registrations/new_rego_entry
**Main speakers**
Please visit: http://z08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.html
**The Inclusive Museum Conference 2009**
The Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
8-10 July 2009
University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
For more information, please see: http://z09.cgpublisher.com/welcome.html
[2] Journal News - www.Museum-Journal.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------If you have registered for the 2008 International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, you will have complimentary personal access to the online version of the journal for one year.
------------------------------------------------[3] Community News
------------------------------------------------Please send news items to: kanako.ide@commongroundpublishing.com
**Bodies on Display**
7-8 November 2008
McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers deadline is 13 June 2008.
See: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/activities/colloquia/
**Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage**
ICOM-ICME Annual Meeting, Jerusalem (ICOM International Committee for Museums of Ethnography)
17-19 November 2008
Jerusalem, Israel
Call for Papers deadline is 31 April 2008.
See: http://icme.icom.museum
**Transforming Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice**
15-16 May 2008
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
See: http://depts.washington.edu/museum/2008callforsubmissions/callpdffinal.pdf
**Selling or telling? Paradoxes in tourism, culture and heritage**
2-4 July 2008
University of Brighton, East Sussex, UK
See: http://www.atlas-euro.org/pages/content/pgbrighton.htm
**Responsibilities and Opportunities in Architectural Conservation: Theory,
Education, and Practice**
3-6 November 2008
Petra University, Amman, Jordan
See: http://www.csaar-center.org/conference/2008B
**'Fear of the Unknown': Can gallery interpretation help visitors learn about art and material culture?**
19-21 November 2008
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
See: http://www.vam.ac.uk
**The Shape of Memory: the Museum and its Collections**
Asia Society Museum - 17 November 2008
Museum of Modern Art - 18 November 2008
New York, USA
See: http://www.cimam.org
**Museums and Disasters**
12-16 November 2008
The Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
See: http://www.icmah.com
**Regional Museums in a Post Industrial Age**
20-24 October 2008
Fort Pitt Museum and the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh History Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
See: http://icr.icom.museum
**City Museums and the Future of the City**
6-8 October 2008
Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, Korea
See: http://camoc.icom.museum
[4] Subscribe
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The Inclusive Museum Community Newsletter, March 2008
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In this issue
-------------- --------------------[1] Welcome
Welcome to the March issue of the Inclusive Museum Community Newsletter. In this issue you will find information about the upcoming International Conference on the Inclusive Museum and the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum. The Newsletter also includes a Community News section, with information about conferences, events, articles and journals that might be of interest to the Community.
As part of this Community, please feel free to send me items that may be of interest for the Community News section and invite your colleagues to subscribe to the Newsletter as well.
Kanako Ide
Kanako@commongroundpublishing.com
Authors and Readers Want Your Feedback
Authors of papers and people who are about to read an article often find post-publication reviews to be extremely helpful. This is why Common Ground provides all readers with the opportunity to comment on any paper that they've read via the 'Write a Review' feature. All you need to do is to go to the page for that particular article, go to the bottom of the page, click on the 'Write a Review' link and let your voice be heard. Give your review a title, add your review content and click on the star rating. All reviews are moderated by Common Ground's publishing team (to prevent irrelevant or slanderous submissions). Please note that the 'Write a Review' feature is not the place to inform us of typos in the catalogue. If you note typos that you'd like to let us know about please contact us at journals@commongroundpublishing.com noting the product link and the specific error.
Contributing Editors Needed
The Inclusive Museum Community Newsletter is intended to serve as a forum through which its recipients can communicate items of relevance to their colleagues and, in doing so, assist in the building of community around a shared interest in museums. Contributing Editors play a key role in the Newsletter by providing essential content, including information on conferences and symposia, fellowships, books by museum community members, opportunities to publish, and additional items of interest. The Contributing Editors are particularly well suited to this role because their disciplinary affiliation, professional networks and geographical location, among other things, often provide them with access to information that might be otherwise overlooked or inaccessible.
We are currently looking for additional Contributing Editors for Inclusive Museum Community Newsletter. We greatly appreciate the continued participation of Contributing Editors, Mary L. Nucci, The Food Policy Institute, New Jersey, USA and Amy Sodaro, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA. However we recognize that, given the size of the task, additional Editors are needed to significantly increase Newsletter content. We are looking for people who are professionally engaged and interested in the mission of the Newsletter, as well as able to commit to submitting at least one contribution per month.
In addition to assisting with the Newsletter, Contributing Editors serve on the International Advisory Board of the The International Conference on the Inclusive Museum (www.Museum-Conference.com) and it's corresponding Journal (www.Museum-Journal.com). Advisory Board members provide suggestions on the themes of each year's Conference and Journal, as well as the overall intellectual direction. In return, Contributing Editors receive a complimentary registration to the Conference and subscription to the Journal.
Applicants should send a letter of interest and CV to Helen Agans at helen.agans@commongroundpublishing.com. Please note that because we are interested in the serving the diverse, and truly international, interests of the Museum Community, we hope to have a correspondingly diverse applicant pool. Once we have received and reviewed all applications, e-mail notifications will be sent to all applicants notifying them of the final decision.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] International Conference on the Inclusive Museum News
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
8-11 June 2008
National Museum of Ethnology
Leiden, the Netherlands
www.Museum-Conference.com
The deadline for the next round in the Call for Papers is 17 April 2008
http://z08.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro#sd
Participation at the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum begins with the proposal. Proposals can be submitted for in-person presentations or as virtual papers. Information on proposals, presentation types, and participation options is available on the website: http://z08.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro.
Main speakers
http://z08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.htmlWe are very pleased to announce the main speakers for the Inclusive Museum Conference:
-Tomur Atagok, Professor in Yildiz Technical University
-Alissandra Cummins, Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
-Denise Hamu Marcos de La Penha, The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) Brazil Executive Officer
-Steven Engelsman, Director of the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands
-Amareswar Galla, National Chair of the Committee for Arts, Culture and Heritage in a Multicultural Australia of the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia
-Lejo Schenk, Director of the Amsterdam Tropenmuseum (Royal Tropical Institute)
-Katerina Stenou, Director of the Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue in UNESCO.
[3] Community Notice Board Submissions
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this section you will find information from our Community. We would appreciate if you would share your ideas with us and suggest web directory items, articles, projects, etc. This newsletter will improve and evolve thanks to your support.
If you have any information that you would like to submit on upcoming conferences, new publications or anything else that might be of interest to the Inclusive Museum Community, please send it to: kanako.ide@commongroundpublishing.com
Heritage and Practice of Public Formation
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies
Call for papers:
The International Journal of Heritage Studies invites submissions for a special theme issue devoted to a critical consideration of the implications of heritage practices in regard to the re-articulation of existing publics and the formation of new ones.
Those who think heritage is only about the past have got it wrong. Practices of heritage are always about the future. Such practices are inherently implicated in enduring questions regarding the viable substance of social life, questions which include the problem of human connection across historically structured differences of time and place. Heritage practices present an arena of social participation. They not only offer meanings and affect that help consolidate existing social solidarities, but they also offer the possibility of new connections among diverse people, connections essential for the continual renewal of democratic life and the attainment of environmental sustainability in an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
This issue of IJHS will be devoted to discussions of heritage practice that move beyond the notion of a public as an identifiable pre-existing set of people who form the potential audience for any given heritage event and who are then reminded of their connections to each other through their collective attention.
In these circumstances, previously constituted identities and/or interests are often invoked to explain the thoughts and feelings that tie people to each other, establishing their willingness to accept a given normative basis for shared values and institutions. Differently from this concern with how heritage practices are implicated in the reproduction of existing social relations, for this issue we are encouraging explorations that start with the idea that as plural formations, publics may be initiated and consolidated when strangers come to recognize new shared interests and affinities. Thus our focus is the way diverse sets of people engage with various forms of both tangible and intangible heritage forging relationships that were not pre-existing.
When heritage practices are implicated in this moment of the making (or re-making) of collectivities, something of what Hannah Arendt called "world-making" happens. In such moments, through engagements with representations of the past and each other, varied people may come to understand themselves in new ways as members of a public in formation. An important consequence of considering heritage practices on such terms is that it extends the manner in which such practices may be understood to be both political and pedagogical. More concretely stated, heritage practices within but not limited to museums, urban landscapes, internet web sites, tourist sites, monuments and memorials, as well as engagements with music, dance, drama, craft and art may all contribute to the formation of new publics and hence social and political re-formation of everyday life.
For this special issue of IJHS we are calling for papers concerned with how heritage practices provoke the conditions that enable the existence of publics, and contribute to their plurality, historicity, stability/instability, and relationship with each other. Such papers would likely consider not only what it means to be with others in new public formations but as well, they may address the material and spatial conditions that enable and limit their coming into being. Further, consideration might also be given to the substantive relation of new public formations to existing State forms and global ideologies. IJHS calls on scholars to consider the potential of heritage practices for enriching public landscapes, engendering collective experience and insight, inciting debates and democratic practices, and creating new forms of human solidarity. Papers should aim to reevaluate and reposition ideas of the public, placing heritage within contemporary contexts and concerns.
Please submit paper proposals (abstracts of up to 300 words) by June 1, 2008 to the issue's editors Roger I. Simon (rsimon@oise.utoronto.ca) and Susan Ashley (sashl@yorku.ca). Completed manuscripts will be due September 30, 2008.
Potential contributors will be interested to know that Routledge has expressed an interest in publishing the special issue in book form once it has been published by the IJHS.
The Editors:
Roger I. Simon is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the Faculty Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education and Director of the Testimony and Historical Memory Project at OISE/UT. Simon has written broadly on critical approaches to cultural pedagogy most recently focusing on the areas of public history and museum studies. His research and writing addresses questions of the pedagogical and ethical dimensions of practices of cultural memory. This work is part of Simon's on-going exploration of the intersections of social and political theory, cultural practice, and pedagogy in regard to the project of securing a public sphere enabling a just and compassionate society. His recent publications include articles in Museum and Society, Museum Management and Curatorship, and the Journal of Museum Education. His most recent book is The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning and Ethics published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. Mailto:
rsimon@oise.utoronto.ca
Susan Ashley is a SSHRC-CGS doctoral candidate in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto. She has had 20 years of experience in the heritage field as a front-line interpreter, program and exhibit planner, and consultant, working with public heritage sites across Canada. She has published in IJHS, Museum & Society, the Canadian Journal of Communication, and various heritage professional journals.
Material Worlds
A conference in honour of Professor Susan Pearce
University of Leicester
15-17 December 2008
Professor Susan Pearce is an internationally renowned professor of museum studies and historical archaeologist, who has had a long and important association with material culture studies both within and beyond the museum.
The University of Leicester's Department of Museum Studies plans to honour Professor Pearce's contribution to the field with a significant material culture studies conference and the subsequent publication of a volume of essays based on the conference papers. Both the conference and the volume will explore agenda in theoretically-oriented material culture studies. We are now inviting the submission of abstracts. Presentations will address or inform approaches to theorising relationships between people and the material world. The range of potential themes is broad, and might include embodied experience and sensory engagements, the agency of and distinctions between objects and persons, the construction of value, etc.
In keeping with Professor Pearce's own interdisciplinarity, proposals in this area are warmly welcomed from those working on the cutting-edge of object studies not only in archaeology, anthropology and museum studies, but also in a wide range of other disciplines including history, management and organisational studies, geography, literary studies, sociology, philosophy, art history, science technology studies, natural sciences and beyond.
Abstracts
Abstracts of 300-450 words should be sent to the conference convenor, Sandra Dudley, (mailto:shd3@le.ac.uk) by 20 March 2008. Any enquiries about the scope of conference may also be sent to the convenor. A draft conference programme will be available here after the end of March 2008.
Registration
Conference registration forms will be available from March 2008. Interest in - and enquiries about - attending may be sent to Barbara Lloyd (bl5@le.ac.uk).
Full conference fee including lunches and refreshments: 150 pounds (concessions 90 pounds; daily rates also available). Bed and breakfast: 50 pounds/night. Dinner, including main conference dinner: 20 pounds/night
American Zoological Association
2008 Annual Conference in Milwaukee
September 12 - 18, 2008, hosted by the Milwaukee County Zoo.
Instructions for submitting proposals
The AZA Program Committee is accepting proposals for program sessions and posters for the 2008 Annual Conference in Milwaukee. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday, March 28th, 5:00 pm EST. Proposals submitted after the deadline will only be considered after all other submissions have been reviewed and if there is space on the program. Please use the online submission form to submit your proposal.
Program Proposals
Proposals can be submitted in one of the following program tracks:
* Animal Management and Conservation
* Education
* Business Operations (includes Gift Shops, Concessions, Technology, Guest Services and Human Resources)
* Public Relations and Marketing
* Development/Fundraising and Membership
* Volunteer and Docent Management
* Other
If your proposal does not fall into one of the above tracks, please choose "Other" and explain which audience your session most appeals to. Proposals that are accepted will be scheduled on any day of the conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to modify submissions including adding or deleting speakers. Moderators will be consulted before any changes to their submission are made final. Proposals can either be submitted as a Program Session or a Poster. Sessions will not be classified as Roundtable, Workshop, Concurrent Session or Individual Paper.
Poster Presentations
Posters are particularly well suited for presentation of complex and technical methods and results. Posters will be on display in the Exhibit Hall during the conference. There will also be a Poster Reception that will give authors the opportunity to discuss their work or findings with conference attendees.
For more information: http://www.aza.org/ConfWork/
American Association of Museums
Annual Meeting and Museum Expo
April 27-May 1, 2008
Denver, Colorado, USA
Theme: Leadership: An Open Mic for New Ideas
At the 2008 Annual Meeting in Denver held in conjunction with the 102nd annual meeting of the American Association of Museums (AAM), we invite participants to investigate the issue of leadership and to examine new models for leadership at every level in a museum. The meeting will convene the museum community to share knowledge and expertise around this topic and many others and to assist museums and their staff to operate at the highest professional level. It will provide a dynamic and engaging environment that inspires reflection, renewal, and reaffirmation of the important contribution museums make to society.
Contact: ICOM-US, 1575 Eye ST NW, Ste 400, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Tel: +1.202.289.9115 Fax: +1.202.289.6578
Email: icomus@aam-us.org
More information: http://www.aam-us.org/am08/index.cfm
Pacific Islands Museums Association
6 - 8 May 2008
Port Vila, Vanuatu
First Oceanic Art Symposium
Theme: Oceanic Art Today: Status, Production and Tendencies
Organised by the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre "Oceanic Art Today: Status, Production and Tendencies" is the first PIMA symposium on Oceanic Art. It is a Pacific-wide opportunity for international art scholars and museum professionals to explore different facets of philosophical debate, scholarship, case studies and practical examples relating to the topic.
The following topics will be discussed:
* The concept and definition of Oceanic Art and art practice;
* The role of Oceanic Art in the creative industries;
* Safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage associated with Oceanic Art (including safeguarding traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights);
* The collection, exhibition and research of Oceanic Art (including the issue of illicit trafficking), respecting the ethics PIMA promotes.
Contact: PIMA, c/o Vanuatu Cultural Centre, PO Box 184, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Fax: 678 26590.
Email: pima@vanuatu.com.vu
For more information: http://www.pacificislandsmuseum.org/
International Committee for University Museums and Collections
16 - 20 September 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom
Theme: University Museums and the Community
Venue : The Whitworth Art Gallery
Hosted by: The Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. With the University Museums Group UK<.br/>
For much of their history, universities were elite learning environments, sheltered from the outside world by their 'ivory towers', and taking their model from the monastery. Since at least the 1960s, though, universities have been playing an increasingly important role in their local and regional communities. One of their early roles was to form extra-mural departments that offered courses to members of the public. More recently, universities have begun to recognize their cultural, economic and social role within their communities.
Universities are often major employers; some historic universities play a major role in the tourist economy; and some make a significant contribution through spin-off companies formed as a way of bringing commercial applications to university research. In addition, one of the major ways in which universities make a contribution to their communities is through their cultural provision. Many universities operate theatres, concert venues, parks, botanic gardens, and museums and galleries. Increasingly, university museums and galleries have become a vital link between universities and their communities. They are important sources of learning outside the classroom for schools and colleges, as well as places of informal learning for visitors of all kinds; they are vehicles for public engagement with academic research; and increasingly they are becoming places where the university can listen to the community and its views on the issues studied by academics.
The theme of UMAC's 8th International Conference therefore focuses on one of the most pressing issues today for university museums across the globe, which is how they can best act as two-way bridges between the world of the university and the many and varied communities, outside the university and within it in the form of students and staff using the museums in their leisure time, and the global 'virtual' community of the Internet.
UMAC members encompass museums of all academic disciplines; each of them will be affected by these transitions in a different way and each will choose a different approach and strategy to secure the museum's mission.
UMAC's Conference Board 2008 invites participants to report on how they
- each in their specific and therefore unique situation
- respond to these challenges and to share experiences and best practices.
Contact: Estelle Idiens at The Manchester Museum on ++44 161 275 2649 or
Email: estelle.idiens@manchester.ac.uk
More information: http://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/umac2008
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8-11 June, 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands
www.Museum-Conference.com
Proposals & Participation Options
International Conference on the Inclusive Museum participation begins with your paper proposal. Proposals can be submitted for in-person presentations or as virtual papers. Information on proposals, presentation types, and participation options is available on the website: http://z08.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro . If your proposal is accepted, you may submit a written paper to the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum.
Main Speakers
We are very pleased to announce that the main speakers for the Inclusive Museum Conference
Tomur Atagok, Professor in Yildiz Technical University
Alissandra Cummins, Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Denise Hamu Marcos de La Penha, The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) Brazil Chief Executive Officer
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Re-Presenting Disability:
Museums and the Politics of Display
Call for papers - deadline 31st January
Editors: Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland Thomson
This edited volume of original, provocative, timely and scholarly papers, (published in book form), will bring together around 20 researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplinary and institutional contexts to explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery displays.
Whilst museums and galleries provide the focus for this collection of writings, contributions from leading-edge researchers in disability and cultural studies - concerned with related areas of interest and different sites of representation - will serve to illuminate debates and representational practices within museums and museum studies.
Museums and Social Agency
Research in recent years has highlighted the constitutive or generative capacities of museums - their potential to shape, rather than simply reflect, social relations and realities. Museum displays, and the representations of difference embodied within them, have social effects and consequences.
Very often these effects have been understood to be negative. Museums have been identified as agencies which both shape and reinforce dominant (oppressive, discriminatory) understandings of difference by excluding and marginalising (through elision) or by constructing representations that are reductive, essentialising and often negatively stereotypical. By casting racial, gender, physical and other 'variations' as inferior or deviant, museums have privileged ways of seeing that have made prejudiced understandings of difference both more perceptible and permissible.
In recent years, however, there has been growing interest amongst both museum practitioners and researchers in the potential for museums to develop exhibitions and educational initiatives which attempt to open up possibilities for mutual respect and understanding between different social groups. An increasing number of museums have experimented with new forms of practice - collaboration and consultation with diverse communities; the staging of interpretive interventions purposefully designed to mitigate, complicate or subvert prevalent stereotypes; innovative approaches to interpretation and exhibition design; the development of more inclusive ways of working and so on - which aim to generate for visitors (and society more broadly), alternative, more equitable ways of seeing, thinking and talking about difference.
The last two decades have seen a proliferation of projects designed to redress the exclusion and misrepresentation of women, of minority ethnic and indigenous communities and, rather more rarely, of sexual minorities and different faith groups. However, despite relatively widespread professional and academic interest in these 'hidden histories', it is only in the last few years that there has been growing recognition of the invisibility and misrepresentation of disabled people within museum and gallery displays.
(http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/research/Reports/RethinkingDisabilityRepresentationupdate1.pdf)
Themes and questions
Re-Presenting Disability: Museums and the Politics of Display,
will address a number of timely questions including:
* In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics historically been represented in the collections and displays of museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical approaches?
* How do emerging trends in museum practice - designed to counter prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people - relate to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public history and mass media?
* What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate existing collections to investigate histories of disability and disabled people to identify material evidence that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice? What are the implications of these developments for contemporary collecting?
* How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the way?
* How do audiences - disabled and non-disabled - respond to and engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront, undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?
* In what ways are debates around disability rights shaping broader management philosophies and practices (for example, around workforce diversity) in museums and galleries?
Call for papers
Each of the editors will contribute a chapter. David Hevey (author of The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography and Disability Imagery, Routledge 1992), is also a confirmed contributor.
If you would like to propose a contribution to this exciting new volume, please send a 300-500 word abstract as well as a short (2 page maximum) curriculum vitae to Dr. Richard Sandell, (rps6@le.ac.uk) Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
The deadline for abstracts is January 31st 2008. The deadline for accepted essays (approx. 5,000-8,000 words) will be December 15, 2008.
Submissions will be reviewed by the book's editors:
Richard Sandell, Head of Department of Museum Studies and co-director, Rethinking Disability Representation, University of Leicester, UK.
Jocelyn Dodd, Director, RCMG (Research Centre for Museums and Galleries) and co-director, Rethinking Disability Representation, University of Leicester, UK.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Emory University, USA.
Conference: The Contentious Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland
November 20-21, 2008
Proposals due February 29, 2008
'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 covered and the name and contact details of the proposer. It is intended that selected papers will be published in a special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship. Please indicate if you would like your paper considered for publication.
All proposals for sessions or individual papers must be received by 29 February 2008. An outline programme and booking form will be available from May 2008.
Further information is available from, and proposals should be sent to Neil Curtis.
Neil Curtis
Senior Curator
Marischal Museum
University of Aberdeen
Marischal College
Aberdeen AB10 1YS
Scotland
T: (+44) 01224 274304
F: (+44) 01224 274302
E: neil.curtis@abdn.ac.uk
Conference: Memory, history, morality: the socialist past today
11-12th September 2008, Newcastle University (UK)
Deadline for proposals: February 29, 2008
Memory and history, it has been argued, are closely connected to identity, both communal and individual. Memory and history are therefore also made in the present according to present demands. Yet, the past sometimes also presses into the present, or, as Bergson writes 'the past that is gnawing on present and future'.
In the post-socialist context representations and memories of the past come about in often tense political climates; more often than not the representations themselves are political. Against the backdrop of the transformation that deeply affected the values and norms that govern how individuals can portray themselves, how the past is remembered and talked about becomes also a deeply moral question.
The conference seeks to explore such trajectories in a variety of post-socialist societies. It is part of an ethnographic project on the 'Socialist Past in Eastern Germany' which takes an anthropological approach (the project is funded by the ESRC, Economic and Social Research Council, UK). The conference is intended to allow for comparison of and exchange about how the socialist past is managed/re-worked/silenced/re-membered at collective, individual and inter-personal levels in different post-socialist contexts. It is envisioned that the event may give rise to a network of scholars from East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union with such research interests.
The organisers are encouraging in particular scholars working 'at home' in East and central Europe and the former Soviet Union to apply. Contributions taking an anthropological and ethnographic approach, and those in related disciplines, are also particularly welcome. Funding to assist with travel and accommodation costs is available.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
* life-stories/biographies of 'victims', 'perpetrators', 'ordinary citizens' (and/or those in-between)
* critical explorations of categories such as 'ordinary citizens', 'victims' or 'perpetrators'
* contributions dealing with the legacies of socialism (history writing; memorials, state security police files, etc.)
* public discourse and debates about the past
* cultures of memory; changes to memory culture
* memories and/or uses of the past in everyday lives; and/or politically
* history-writing; social memory
* morality; politics
Please send abstracts of up to 400 words to:
anselma.gallinat@ncl.ac.uk
Deadline: 29th of February 2008.
The project can be found at http://the-socialist-past.ncl.ac.uk
Conference organisers are:
Dr. Anselma Gallinat; School of Geography, Politics and Sociology;
Newcastle University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
anselma.gallinat@ncl.ac.uk
Dr. Sabine Kittel; School of Geography, Politics and Sociology;
Newcastle University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
sabine.kittel@ncl.ac.uk
Conference Announcement: Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Conference
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
February 7-9, 2008
Is an interdisciplinary field of memory studies possible?
February 7-9, 2008
The New School for Social Research
A rapidly growing interest in memory studies is shared today across the academic disciplines. From studies of memory in the brain by neurobiologists and psychologists, to the study of cultural forms of remembrance by sociologists, cultural critics and art historians, different disciplines study how memory functions and how it is constructed and used. This interdisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars in the field with graduate students to break new ground for their specific disciplines, as well as for the memory discourse in general. In the tradition of the New School for Social Research the conference is devoted to developing a critical debate among the social sciences and humanities around the question: Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible? And if it is possible, how can it contribute to new paradigms and analyses of memory.
Speakers include Dominick LaCapra, Richard McNally, James V. Wertsch, Ross Poole, Atina Grossmann, Eviatar Zerubavel, Robyn Fivush, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Louis Bickford, Barbie Zelizer, Marianne Hirsch, Orit Halpern, David Rubin, Andrew Hoskins, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, and Marita Sturken. Together with the conference will be an exhibition on display at 65 Fifth Avenue of multi-media projects by students of Media Studies (New School for General Studies) and Parsons School of Design that address the topic of memory.
Dates: Thursday, February 7 - Saturday, February 9, 2008
Location: 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets), The New School for Social Research
For Full Conference Program Please Visit: www.nssrmemoryconference.com
For more information or to join our mailing list, email:
NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com or call 212-229-5580 x3136 or (212) 229-5426 x 4916.
Fellowships:
United states holocaust memorial museum
Center for advanced holocaust studies
Dorot Foundation
Summer Research Assistant Fellowships for Graduate Students
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum supports scholarship in the field of Holocaust studies; promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at North American universities and the development of strong relationships between American and foreign scholars of the Holocaust; and seeks to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of scholars specializing in the Holocaust.
The Center is now accepting applications for graduate student summer research assistant fellowships. Recipients will participate with the Center's staff scholars and program directors in four special research projects. Summer 2008 recipients will:
Research sources, write, and edit entries on Nazi-run ghettos for the second volume of the Center's Encyclopedia of Camps, Ghettos and other Detention Sites in Nazi-Dominated Europe. In addition to English, fluency in Polish, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Lithuanian, or Russian is essential.
Assist with the annotation and contextualization of select documents for the Center's research and publication project on Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946. Tasks include performing archival and/or library-based research, translating and organizing select sources and writing glossary and other texts under the supervision of the volume editors. In addition to English, fluency in Polish, German, Yiddish, French or Dutch is required.
Conduct research on antisemitism in its various historical and contemporary manifestations in order to compile a detailed bibliography of materials on the subject. Awardee will also assist with planned research workshop on antisemitism. In addition to English, fluency or good reading knowledge in German, French, or Hebrew is required.
Conduct research and assist in preparing in-depth studies and reports about the archival collections of the International Tracing Service (ITS) collection. These massive collections include concentration camp records that provide a window to the daily fate of those targeted by the Nazis and their allies, as well as forced and slave labor records that reveal the workings of the Nazi system of persecution. In addition to fluency in English and German, reading knowledge of one other European language is preferred.
In addition to their involvement in these research projects, awardees will participate in the broad range of scholarly and public education programs offered by the Museum during the summer months.
Each fellowship will last for three months during the May-August timeframe. Awardees will receive a stipend of $2,000/month. The Center will also provide funds for one roundtrip airline ticket to and from Washington, D.C. for travel within North America. Applicants must be currently enrolled in or admitted to a graduate degree program at a North American university. The Center is unable to provide visa assistance for non-U.S. citizens.
Application Procedure:
Applicants should submit a resume, a personal statement of no more than two pages in length, and one letter of recommendation from a faculty member or dean at his/her institution that speaks to the applicant's qualifications for one of the projects listed above. The personal statement must specify the project for which the applicant is applying and explain the significance of the requested fellowship to the applicant's professional and/or academic goals. Application materials must be received by March 24, 2008. All applicants will be notified of selection results by early April 2008.
Application materials should be sent to: Dr. Lisa Yavnai, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024. Inquiries may be addressed to Dorot@ushmm.org or via telephone at 202-314-7829.
The Graduate Student Summer Research Assistant Fellowship Program has been made possible through the generosity of the Dorot Foundation.
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In this issue
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For the past few months, I have been assisting with the organization and promotion of the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum. My duties as Newsletter Editor complement this work and provide me with an opportunity to better connect with people. I welcome you to join me and many other people as we build a community around this important topic. Please send us relevant items for the Community Notice Board, consider applying for our Contributing Editor position, and feel free to recommend the Newsletter to colleagues. Details are listed below. Thank you.
Best regards,
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Inclusive Museum
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Inclusive Museum Conference 2008
8-11 June, 2008
Leiden, the Netherlands
www.Museum-Conference.com
PROPOSALS & PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
International Conference on the Inclusive Museum participation begins with your paper proposal. Proposals can be submitted for in-person presentations or as virtual papers. Information on proposals, presentation types, and participation options is available on the website: http://z08.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. If your proposal is accepted, you may submit a written paper to the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum.
MAIN SPEAKERS
We are very pleased to announce the main speakers for the Inclusive Museum Conference:
Tomur Atagok, Professor in Yildiz Technical University;
Alissandra Cummins, Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society;
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canadian Inuit Activist;
Denise Hamu Marcos de La Penha, The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) Brazil Chief Executive Officer.
For more information visit to http://z08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.html.
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