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
Name: Christy Nguy

c.nguy@uws.edu.au

Phone: 9685 9523

School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society