ICS Seminar Series
- Event Name
- ICS Seminar Series
- Date
- 23 April 2015
- Time
- 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
- Location
- Parramatta Campus
Address (Room): EB.2.21
- Description
Participation is a key focus of museum policy and practice, increasingly used as a strategy for securing the museum’s continued relevance in contemporary society. This paper argues however that so far, certain models of community engagement have dominated both theory and practice. Established models tend to prioritise institutionally-bound forms of engagement, and as such, despite an optimistic and transformative rhetoric, such models ultimately maintain and redeem the museum institution as it is. Based on ethnographic work conducted in Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, in the North of England, this paper puts forward the notion of care to reconfigure community...(see website for full)Speakers: Dr Nuala Morse
Web page: http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series
- Contact
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Name: Christy Nguy
Phone: 9685 9523
School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society
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