Alternative sources of funding for research students
The following is a, by no means comprehensive, list of (usually highly competitive and monetarily limited) alternative funding sources for research students (including those from overseas) studying, or wishing to study, in the UK.
Information about mainstream funding sources are available on the Department of Museum Studies website.
Funding advice may also be sought from the University Welfare Service. (Can also provide info about funding opportunities, including emergency funding, provided by the University.)
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Interest-free loans:
The Society for Promoting the Training of Women
N.B. does not provide assistance for distance-learning courses and to applicants who have been resident in the UK for less than 3 years.
Scholarships:
Chevening Scholarships
Enable overseas students to study in the UK.
N.B. Application is via the British Embassy/High Commission or the British Council in your home country.
N.B. The British Council has its own scholarship scheme (open to Commonwealth students), and provides information about other sources of funding for overseas students on its website.
British Federation of Women Graduates
Offers limited (and competitive) scholarships to female UK-based and overseas students studying at doctoral level, as well as an emergency grant scheme for final year students.
Africa Educational Trust
Full and part-time scholarships for students of African descent studying, or wishing to study, in the UK. Also offers a small, emergency grant scheme.
Grants and fellowships:
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Supports scholarly research on specific themes, namely violence, aggression and dominance. Will support final year PhD students from, and studying in, any country.
Arab-British Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation
Operates a number of schemes aimed at postgraduate students from Arab states.
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Other sources of funding:
Many UK-based charitable trusts and organisations fund students from particular areas and regions of the UK, and less frequently, the rest of the world. Information about these can be obtained from the Educational Grants Directory (or equivalent, in the rest of the world).
ISBN: 1903991757
Online resources include:
Educational Grants Advisory Service (EGAS)
British Council
COS (Community of Science)
(N.B. Not restricted to science subjects!)
GradFund
EducationUK (International students)
AJB
May, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Alternative sources of funding for research students: The list (#1)
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Alternative sources of funding?
As I'm sure most of us can appreciate, one of the major barriers to prospective PhD students beginning their studies is lack of funding. I am, therefore, and by virtue of my former career as a student funding co-ordinator (yuck!), in the process of compiling a factsheet listing alternative sources of funding, i.e. charities and educational trusts.
I would be very interested to hear from YOU, dear Attic readers, about sources of funding from which you have managed to secure funding, even if it is only a small amount, either prior to, or during your postgraduate studies. I'll then post the list of sources here.
Many thanks.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
CFP: Early Modern Women and Material Culture
From H-Asia:
Call for Submissions: Forum II: Early Modern Women and Material Culture
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From: emwjournal
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*
*Forum II: Early Modern Women and Material Culture
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) invites submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum Early Modern Women and Material Culture, slated for publication in Volume IV (2009). Contributors to the forum will explore the nature of the material culture of early modern women and girls from different socioeconomic levels and from regions across the globe. Which objects - garments, manuscripts, jewelry, toys, housewares, tools, furniture, and musical instruments - - did they own or use? How did such objects construct identity, strengthen social ties, teach social or economic roles, or perform other cultural functions? What objects were commonly associated with women and girls? What unusual objects did they own or use? Were specific objects associated with certain times in a woman's life, certain places, or particular rituals? What values, ideas, and assumptions were linked to the material culture of women and girls?
Submissions should be 1300 words in length (plus footnotes). Building on such recent exhibitions as the Victoria and Albert Museum's /At Home in Renaissance Italy /(2006) and on such recent books as Jacqueline Musacchio's /Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy /(1999) and/ /Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass's /Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory/ (2001)/, /contributions may focus on a single object or group of objects that still exist, or on references to objects in images, literary texts, or archival documents. Submissions that explore a range of socioeconomic groups and regions across the globe are especially welcome.
The deadline for forum submissions is *October 31, 2008.*
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
Taliaferro Hall 0139
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727 USA, emwjournal@umd.edu
Friday, May 09, 2008
Call for posters: Transforming Museums
From H-Museum [note the short deadline]:
Call for Posters!
Transforming Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice
An Interdisciplinary Academic Conference
University of Washington
May 22-23, 2008
We invite museum professionals, students, and university faculty to submit poster proposals for the 2008 Transforming Museums conference. Poster sessions provide a forum for exchanging ideas within the field using posters that include short narratives, graphs, pictures, data, diagrams, visual aids, and/or handouts.
Poster presentations and proposals should explore ideas, research, and programs that innovatively address the internal and external changes impacting museums. The poster session will be held at Hotel Deca on Friday, May 23, from 11:35am-12:45pm.
Come join us in the green and beautiful city of Seattle as we reach, share, and dreamstorm toward the future of these most beloved institutions. With its unique host of changing museums, both new and old, we can't think of a better place!
Guidelines:
Submit poster title with short description (up to 50 words) To be included in the program, please submit your proposal by May 15, 2008 Posters will be accepted after the deadline as space allows Participants will be notified of acceptance on a rolling basis Poster content should include a variety of text, charts, graphs, photos, etc. All content should be printed from a computer (i.e. no handwritten posters, please)
Because museology is inherently crossdisciplinary, research from related disciplines within the social sciences or humanities is welcome.
We suggest using tri-fold self-supporting poster boards, however, we do have a limited supply of tabletop easels. If you need an easel, please let us know.
Participants must register for the free conference at: http://www.transformingmuseums.org/
Please visit our website for poster session details and deadlines: http://www.transformingmuseums.org/. If you have questions, please contact the Submissions Committee at museum@u.washington.edu.
Transforming Museums is generously sponsored by the UW Museology Graduate Program, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Henry Art Gallery, Experience Music Project Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Pacific Science Center, and Seattle Art Museum.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Manchester Museum needs your input!
[Thanks to Kostas for the heads-up on this one.]
The Manchester Museum is planning to redevelop its Archaeology and Egyptology galleries. The Manchester Museum would like to present its collections and material in a way that is accessible and relevant to as many different groups and individuals as possible, to reflect the diversity of interpretations of our past, and to create galleries that reflect a dialogue with our community, as well as current academic research.
To these ends a Facebook group has been set up. Members can post their ideas on the discussion board. A great example of a museum utilising web 2.0 technologies.
Conference Alert: Between the Old and New Europe
From H-Museum:
Announcement for ICOM Europe Tour 2008
Museum Tour and Conference
"Between the Old and the New Europe"
September 28 – October 5, 2008
Venues: Tirana, Korce, Ohrid, Bitola, Vergina, Thessaloniki and Istanbul
In cooperation with ICOM Macedonia (FYR), ICOM Greece and ICOM Germany
The rich European heritage in the region between the Adriatic See and the Bosporus, in Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey is the central aspect of ICOM Europe’s tour 2008. The prevailance of Muslim/Ottoman traditions, the cultural relics of theGreek, Roman and Bycentine periods and the traces of Jewish life andculture make this area a unique place to explore cultural diversity upto modern times.
By visiting major cities and sites in the region the museum tour and conference will enable participants to compare the efforts made bymuseums in Tirana, Korce (Museum of Medieval Art), Ohrid (NationalMuseum of Macedonia), Bitola (several different historical sites),Vergina (Tomb of Philipp II), Thessaloniki (Museum of Bycentine Cultureand others) and Istanbul (private and public museums) to preserve,rebuild or establish collections and exhibitions that reflect thefollowing basic aspects: 1. National and European Identities 2. TheRepresentation of Minorities 3. The Revitalisation of Cultural andNatural Heritage 4. Cultural Diversity and Understanding.
The main intention of the tour is
- to foster crossborder relationships between the countries participating
- to provide insight into problems and necessary immediate action in museums
- to strengthen the museums in the region
- to improve international relationships among European countries and museums
- to create and support networks of museums
- to build up trust between museums
ICOM Europe believes that the ICOM Europe Tour 2008 is a unique projectto foster mobility of museum professionals in Europe. This correspondswith the strategic plan of ICOM and also with the Activity Plan of theEuropean Council, that intends to foster networking and to build uptrust. Mobility of personal has become one of the key elements incultural policy today. We are convinced that the tour and conferencemeets the modern requirements of museum management and will contributeto the development of museums as major cultural institutions in Europe.
Programme
A detailed programme and the itinery of the tour shall be available by June. See: http://www.icom-europe.org/.
Registration
To register for the ICOM Europe Tour 2008 please contact Mr. Udo Goesswald chair@icom-europe.org. Deadline for registration is June 30,2008. The registration fee is 120 Euros (80 Euros for students). Afterregistering you will receive information about accomodation. ICOM Europe supplies a limited amount of travel grants for ICOMmembers, especially under the age of 35. Please apply for travel grantswith your CV and a letter of request.
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Udo Goesswald
Chair
ICOM-Europe
c/o Museum Neukölln
Ganghoferstraße 3
12040 Berlin
Germany
+49/(0)30/6809 2535
+49/(0)30/6809 3811
http://www.icom-europe.org/
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Publications: Journal of the History of Collections Special Issues
[Some familiar names here!]
Journal of the History of Collections Special Issue
This special issue's topic is Antiquarianism, Museums, and Cultural Heritage: Collecting and its Contexts in Eighteenth-century Naples. The journal discusses the innovative way the movement in Eighteenth-century Naples explored antiquity.
For more information please visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3201/1.
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J Hist Collections -- Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of Journal of the History of Collections has been made available:
May 2008; Vol. 20, No. 1
URL: http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue1/index.dtl?etoc
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Jerry Brotton and David McGrath
The Spanish acquisition of King Charles I's art collection: The letters of Alonso de Cardenas, 1649-51
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 1-16; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm035.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/1?etoc
Susan Pearce
William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816-25
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 17-35; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm031.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/17?etoc
Jeannie Chapel
The papers of Joseph Gillott (1799-1872)
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 37-84; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm018.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/37?etoc
Frances Larson
Anthropological landscaping: General Pitt Rivers, the Ashmolean, the University Museum and the shaping of an Oxford discipline
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 85-100; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm020.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/85?etoc
Dominic Janes
The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 101-112; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm019.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/101?etoc
Liesbet Nys
Aspirations to life: Pleas for new forms of display in Belgian museums around 1900
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 113-126; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm034.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/113?etoc
Kate Brittlebank
Anthropology, fine art and missionaries: The Berndt Kalighat album rediscovered
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 127-142; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm017.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/127?etoc
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Helen Whitehouse
Wondrous Curiosities. Ancient Egypt at the British Museum
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 143-144; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn006.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/143?etoc
Arthur MacGregor
Carolus Clusius. Towards a Cultural History of a Renaissance Naturalist
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 144-146; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn005.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/144?etoc
Sam Smiles
Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 146-147; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn008.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/146?etoc
Colin Harrison
From Wunderkammer to Museum
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 147-148; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm033. http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/147?etoc
Lauran Toorians
De Kunstkamera van Peter de Grote. De Hollandse inbreng, gereconstrueerd uit brieven van Albert Seba en Johann Daniel Schumacher uit de jaren 1711-1752
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 148-149; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn002.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/148?etoc
David Watkin
Portrait of a Patron. The Patronage and Collecting of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674-1744)
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 149-150; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm043.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/149?etoc
Lauran Toorians
De idealen van Pieter Teyler. Een erfenis uit de Verlichting
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 150-151; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn003.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/150?etoc
R. G. W. Anderson
Joseph Banks and the British Museum. The World of Collecting, 1770-1830
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 151-152; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm040.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/151?etoc
Camilla Murgia
La circulation des oeuvres d'art. The Circulation of Works of Art in the Revolutionary Era, 1789-1848
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 152-154; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm036.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/152?etoc
Susan Pearce
William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 154; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm042.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/154-a?etoc
Jeanette Atkinson
Exhibiting Maori. A History of Colonial Cultures of Display
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 154-156; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm041.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/154?etoc
Sheila Watson
Museums, Nations, Identities: Wales and its National Museums
J Hist Collections 2008 20: 156-157; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn012.
http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/156?etoc
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J Hist Collections 2008 20: 159; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn007. http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/159?etoc
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Publications: International Journal of Heritage Studies (14), 3
International Journal of Heritage Studies: Volume 14 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com/ ).
Special Issue: Sense of Place: New Media, Cultural Heritage and Place Making
This new issue contains the following articles:
Contributors p. 193
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953843
Editorial p. 195
Authors: Elisa Giaccardi; Erik Malcolm Champion; Yehuda Kalay
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953835
New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground p. 197
Authors: Jeff Malpas
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953652
Otherness of Place: Game-based Interaction and Learning in Virtual Heritage Projects p. 210
Authors: Erik Malcolm Champion
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953686
Making a Liveable ‘Place’: Content Design in Virtual Environments p. 229
Authors: Xiaolei Chen; Yehuda Kalay
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953710
Place as Dialogue: Understanding and Supporting the Museum Experience p. 247
Authors: John McCarthy; Luigina Ciolfi
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953736
A Virtual Community as the Context for Discursive Interpretation: A Role in Cultural Heritage Engagement p. 268
Authors: Janice Affleck; Thomas Kvan
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953751
The Social Production of Heritage through Cross-media Interaction: Making Place for Place-making p. 281
Authors: Elisa Giaccardi; Leysia Palen
DOI: 10.1080/13527250801953827
Monday, April 28, 2008
Research Seminar Review: Social Inclusion and the Geography of School Visits (Anna Woodham)
On the 23rd April, the Department of Museum Studies' research seminar programme restarted with a presentation by Anna Woodham, a third year PhD student based jointly in the Departments of Geography and Museum Studies. Anna's research looks at the spatial connections between museums and schools located in so-called deprived areas of England and Wales, based upon the findings of three RCMG research projects.
For this research seminar, Anna focused in on the views of the Head Teachers at a number of her case study schools on the value of museum visiting, using a theoretical framework which made use of Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital (her explanation of which drew enthusiastic compliments from her audience for its clarity!).
After a brief, but comprehensive overview of social deprivation indicators (and the challenges which they present to the researcher), Anna introduced several very revealing quotes from head teachers of two primary and one secondary school in Birmingham. She asked each head teacher, 'what is the value of museum visiting?'. Several themes emerged: not only were museums seen as sites of learning that supported the national curriculum, they highlighted as important sites of cultural and linguistic enrichment, especially for pupils for whom English was not the primary language spoken at home. For the secondary school pupils, museums were perceived to support an overall school strategy of boosting life chances and broadening horizons for students growing up in an environment which is not only deprived socially and economically, but suffers from poverty of aspiration
Finally, Anna spoke briefly about her emerging view - as a result of her field work completed to date - that there is a paradoxical tension between what headteachers perceive museums do, and what museums think their role is.
Overall, Anna's seminar provided an entertaining and engaging introduction to an aspect of her research, which was augmented by a brief, but artful presentation of snaps of Boston she took on a recent conference trip partially funded by the Department!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dundee - the city of discovery
Thinking of the museum as 'without walls' gives me the opportunity to talk a bit about a recent trip to Dundee I made, in fact could be applied to any visit any where. The past is collected, displayed, retained all around us and whilst it is perhaps not recognised that people 'collect' buildings as such, the decisions that are made as regards to keeping some, knocking down others can be identified as the same process whereas museums decide which objects to keep and which to throw away. Fortunately Dundee has retained much of its history..jpg)
Dundee by train is approached across the River Tay, remembered in poetry as the "silvery Tay" and also cropping up in the Associates' song 'Nude spoons', which is not completely irrelevent to museums being about finding objects and wondering at their meaning. .jpg)
From the railway station, the city climbs upwards over the hills and presents an interesting skyline, admittedly it might appear better on a sunnier day. .jpg)
An industrial city, Dundee was famous, and made its money, as a port and from the making of jute, a kind of material. As with most industrial cities, its fortunes have climbed and sunk over the years and at the moment Dundee is in the process of rejuvenation. Despite the proliferation of shopping centres and dock-side flats that look like they could belong anywhere, Dundee has some very attractive buildings. For fans of medieval towers, the church in the centre of town, incongruous against the modern shopping centre, has the highest medieval tower in Scotland..jpg)
Perhaps the most startling find was Howff burial ground in the city centre. Formerly land belonging to a monastery, it was given to the city in the sixteenth century by Mary Queen of Scots, and is now is tucked away behind buildings. Even more startling was the provision of an information board giving both the history of the site and interesting things to look out for amongst the graves. Such things can be rare in graveyards so it was good to see that the city takes diverse forms of heritage seriously..jpg)
I went to a talk yesterday as part of the University of Leicester's 50th birthday celebrations which was about grave memorials and what they can tell us about society. For the period before the mid-eighteenth century there was seen to be a preoccupation with the finality of death with little hope for salvation. Thus symbols of mortality abound on gravestones that survive, such as the skull, the hourglass and the sexton's tools (spades). The lecturer felt these to be rather grim reminders of death. However I see that many of the skulls can be quite jaunty, and the graveyard in Dundee was certainly full of grinning skulls. I did not find them grim at all, rather comic in fact. That probably says more about me though than the society at the time!.jpg)
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Other points of interest in Dundee include the docks which I only had time for a quick look round but are currently the resting place for two interesting ships. The first is the Unicorn, built in 1824 its the oldest British warship still floating. perhaps because it was never actually used in battle!.jpg)
The second ship is at Discovery Point, the aptly-named Discovery, built in Dundee in 1901 to take the ill-fated Captain Robert Scott on his polar expeditions (thanks to the Rough Guide to Scotland for details on both the ships). Unfortunately I ran out of time to look around the attached heritage centre but it gives me an excuse to head back to Dundee one day. Not that I need an excuse because it is a very interesting city and well worth further exploration..jpg)
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Back issues are still available!
Spotted in the brand new University bookshop (opened today!) in the brand new David Wilson Library.
Friday, April 25, 2008
CFP/Publication: Heritage and Practices of Public Formation
CALL FOR PAPERS:
HERITAGE AND PRACTICES OF PUBLIC FORMATION: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies
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 exiting 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 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.
Publication: Fashion Theory
From H-Museum:
Fashion Theory Volume 12, Issue 1, 2008
The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture
Special Issue: Exhibitionism
Edited by Valerie Steele and Alexandra Palmer
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Letter from the Editor
Valerie Steele; Alexandra Palmer 5
Museum Quality: The Rise of the Fashion Exhibition Valerie Steele 7
Untouchable: Creating Desire and Knowledge in Museum Costume and Textile Exhibitions Alexandra Palmer 31
"We're Not in the Fashion Business": Fashion in the Museum and the Academy Peter Mcneil 65
Between the Museum and the Academy: Fashion Research and its Constituencies Christopher Breward 83
Exhibiting Asia: The Global Impact of Japanese Fashion in Museums and Galleries Patricia Mears 95
Reviewing Fashion Exhibitions
Alexandra Palmer 121
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Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture ISSN 1362-704X, Online ISSN: 1751-7419 Berg Publishers
Study Day: Architecture in Museums
From H-Museum:
Architecture in Museums Study Day
London, 15 May 2008
Heritage Development are organising a Study Day for 24 museum professionals with four world-class architecture and design practices - in the environment of their own London studios. The first two firms to confirm are:
Terry Farrell & Partners
Terry Farrell and Partners (TFP) is a world-renowned practice of planners, urban designers, masterplanners and architects under the leadership of Sir Terry Farrell. Over a period of more than 40 years, the practice has worked on a series of museum projects in the UK and worldwide. Neil Bennett, Project Manager, and Russ Hamilton, Design Director, will speak to us about their work at Edinburgh's Dean Gallery, and give us a preview of the Great North Museum which will open next year in Newcastle, and the Royal Institution which will be reopened by the Queen at the end of May.
www.terryfarrell.co.uk
Eva Jiricna Architects
Designers of innovative galleries and spaces including the new foyer and shops for the V&A and the Royal Academy, the exhibitions Modernism and Africa, the Sir John Soane Museum and the Sculpture Galleries at the V&A, Eva Jiricna and her Project Architect Georgina Papathanasiou will preview their current projects opening to the public in late April and May this year. These are the new Jewelry Galleries at the V&A and the former Gilbert Collection at Somerset House, which is being transformed into a "Kunsthalle"
for special exhibitions.
www.ejal.com
The Format
Each session will last 1 1/2 hours and be informal in style, to maximise discussion and interaction. You'll hear in-depth about the work and the approach of each practice, discuss work-in-progess, view visuals of current and forthcoming projects, explore models of the latest projects, and meet and talk with a range of members of the design teams from each studio. With a maximum of 24 participants, you'll be able to pinpoint in advance any issues and topics you'd particularly like to have covered or discussed, so that the day's experience can be planned to meet your individual needs.
Who should attend? Professionals with any responsibility for the planning, management and implementation of exhibitions, interpretation and design; professionals involved in planning new or revised museums or galleries; professional designers and interpreters working within museums.
This will be a unique, intensive and highly rewarding day. Mini-bus transport between venues will be provided, as will lunch and refreshments.
Cost: £247 inclusive
To book, contact Ann Curtis at ann@heritage365.com
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