Cambridge conference on the future of ethnographic museums

The SWICH conference derives from a project co-funded by the European Council: Exhibiting Culture, Exhibiting Empire, Exhibiting Europe.

Looking at the list of speakers,  one could see some of the 10 institutional partners: museums in Oxford (Pitt Rivers), Berlin, Leiden, Hamburg, Wellington (Te Papa Museum), Stockholm, Dublin, Rome, Marseille, Lubliana. Really curious about the outputs of this event.

This image from a shop in London (2008) represents my contribution to the topic. The future of ethnographic museums is to be found outside the ethnographic museums!

SWICH Summative Conference
EXHIBITING CULTURE, EXHIBITING EMPIRE, EXHIBITING EUROPE

King’s College, University of Cambridge

Wednesday 11 – Friday 13 July 2018

Programme
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 11 JULY

15:30 – 16:30 KEYNOTE 1:

 Sharon MacDonald,

 Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Institut für Europäische
Ethnologie,

 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 Respondent: Claudia Augustat
16:30 – 18:00 PANEL 1: _NEW DIRECTIONS_

 Chair: Guido Gryseels, RMCA, Tervuren

 Panelist 1: Christian Schicklgruber, Weltmuseum, Vienna

 Panelist 2: Barbara Plankensteiner, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg

 Panelist 3: Laura van Broekhoeven, Director, Pitt Rivers Museum
18:00 – 19:30 EVENING RECEPTION AT MAA

 Welcome from Nicholas Thomas

DAY 2: THURSDAY 12 JULY

09:30 – 10:30 KEYNOTE 2:

 Arapata Hakiwai

 Kaihautū (Māori Co-leader), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

 Respondent:

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 PANEL 2: _PUBLICS AND THEIR ENGAGEMENTS_

 Chair: Malavika Anderson (Wellcome Trust, London)

 Panelist 1: Rosa Anna Di Lella (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome)

 Panelist 2: Michael Barrett (Värdskulturmuseerna, Stockholm)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 INTERVENTION 1: Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyen

14:00 – 15:30 PANEL 3: _WHAT IT MEANS TO CARE FOR COLLECTIONS_

 Chair: Mark Elliott (MAA, Cambridge)

 Panelist 1: Dean Sully (UCL, London)

 Panelist 2: Michel Lee (Värdskulturmuseerna, Stockholm)

 Panelist 3: Judith Finlay (National Museum of Ireland, Dublin)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 16:30 INTERVENTION 2: George Nuku

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner
DAY 3: FRIDAY 13 JULY

09:30 – 10:30 PANEL 4:    GIVING IT BACK?

 Chair:

 Panelist 1: Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture, Leiden)

 Panelist 2: Nicholas Thomas (MAA, Cambridge)

 Panelist 3: Ulrich Menter (Linden Museum, Stuttgart)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 PANEL 5:     _SWICH FUTURES_

 Chair:

 Panelist 1: Salvador Garcia Arnillas (Museu de Cultures del Mon,
Barcelona)

 Panelist 2: Bojana Rogel Skafar (Slovenia Etno-Museum, Ljubljana)

 Panelist 3: Sandra Ferracuti (Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart)

 Panelist 4: Veerle Taekels (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren)

 Panelist 5: Mikael Mohammed (Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et
de la

 Méditerranée, Marseille)
12:30-13:00 CLOSING REMARKS: WHERE NEXT?

 Michael Cooke (Arts Council England)

 Henrietta Lidchi (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden)

 Benoît de L’Estoile (CNRS, France)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

On line communities

A hub, an on-line museum of people, things, ides, events, with key workers in many parts of the world, all volunteers, bringing together material, information, news, content about the Japanese diaspora. the interesting thing is that the design of their web-site was changed from glamorous into more classic - to get in tune with their audience.
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/about/what-is-nikkei

Jobs, residencies and internships for artists and curators

Are you an artist? Not sure. Me neither.
I  often think that anthropologists and ethnographers are so close to the field of art and rarely have the strength to step out of academia and see if they could have something to say/ work/ in this field.



I thought of putting together a list of websites where jobs, internships, residencies in the field of art could be taken. They are all in the UK. A friend of mine told me about all three of them.

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-jobs-listings/

 https://www.curatorspace.com/.

https://www.a-n.co.uk/network/

I suppose all these sites might be a good hubs for all those who want to push forward their projects, gain some money from residencies, find about regulations (like data protection in the field of arts).

Ordinary Curating in Micro Museums

The Cornice Museum of Ornamental Plasterwork in Scotland

Have you wondered why sometimes visiting a small museum makes people feel nostalgic about the past? What is it so powerful and special about ordinary curating? How objects are exhibited, labelled, explained? How specific designs are associated to feelings?

An introduction into the world of micro-museums by Fiona Caitlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwKCTSIs7CU