CFP: Making National Museums (NaMu)
From H-Museum:
Second and Final Call for Papers
Making National Museums: Comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration (NaMu)
SETTING THE FRAMESNATIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY, DISCIPLINES AND PROFESSIONALS DEFINING NATIONALMUSEUMS
26-28 February 2007, Linköping University, Sweden
End of call date: 15 December 2006
This three-day conference is the first in a series bringing together current and recent PhD students and senior scholars. Application for participation is open for all disciplines doing research on the historical and contemporary dynamics surrounding National Museums. The program and series is presented on www.namu.se.
SETTING THE FRAMES is part of the program Making National Museums: Comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration (NaMu), funded by Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses.The Marie Curie Conferences & Training Courses are one of the four so-called Host-driven actions aimed at supporting research networks, research organisations and enterprises. The specific objective is to bring together researchers with a different level of experience.The NaMu programme will form a new departure for understanding and working with the diversity of museum institution in Europe by bringing the multidisciplinary field of museum and heritage studies together with a sharp and comparative focus on national museums. The purpose of the programme is to develop the tools, concepts and organisational resources necessary for training researchers, investigating and comparing the major public structure of national museums, responding to challenges of globalisation, European integration, and new media. This will be achieved by a series of conferences providing a venue for younger scholars and eminent researchers from Europe to gather and develop the multi disciplinary competence necessary to understand and compare the dynamics of national museums in a framework of broader studies of historical culture and identity politics. The full programme of six consecutive workshops is presented on the website www.namu.se.
The first conference will work under the heading ”Setting the Frames”,denoting the work of refining the comparative scheme that is presented below. Cultural, archaeological, art, natural and technological museums might be part of forming a national museum in each country.Participation can be granted on the following conditions to one or the whole series of workshops:a) A motivation indicating the applicant’s research interest and ability to contribute and benefit to the workshop(s)b) Suggestions for papers that relate to the comparative design but mightdeal with a variety of empirical questions such as:< How can we understand and define the national museum concept? How has the concept been understood and defined by different actors in the past? Whathistorical, political and cultural contexts are relevant to the creation of national museums?< How are politicians, the public sphere, university disciplines and civilsociety negotiating the concept of National Museum in different nations?Different groups of actors and users might stand for different definingprocesses through both intentions and practices. What historical changes can be identified? How can their role in the broader historical culture be assessed?< How could the creation of and narration within National Museums be read as performative acts, texts, visual and architectural statements and discourses?Among the keynote speakers are professors Tony Bennett and Stefan Berger.More information on the website, www.namu.se and
http://www.namu.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=32&limit=1&limitstart=1.
Send application by registering at namu.se and submit a motivation or an abstract of 1-3 pages to joakim.andersson@isak.liu.se before 15 December 2006. Admittance will be decided before 10 Januray.Grants for participating will cover travel costs and accommodation at theconference.Please forward the call to colleagues!
Norrköping 1 December 2006,
Professor Peter Aronsson (co-ordinator) Culture Studies, Linköpings universitet
Professor Simon KnellMuseum Studies, Leicester University
Professor Arne Bugge AmundsenCulture Studies, Oslo Universitet
Second and Final Call for Papers
Making National Museums: Comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration (NaMu)
SETTING THE FRAMESNATIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY, DISCIPLINES AND PROFESSIONALS DEFINING NATIONALMUSEUMS
26-28 February 2007, Linköping University, Sweden
End of call date: 15 December 2006
This three-day conference is the first in a series bringing together current and recent PhD students and senior scholars. Application for participation is open for all disciplines doing research on the historical and contemporary dynamics surrounding National Museums. The program and series is presented on www.namu.se.
SETTING THE FRAMES is part of the program Making National Museums: Comparing institutional arrangements, narrative scope and cultural integration (NaMu), funded by Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses.The Marie Curie Conferences & Training Courses are one of the four so-called Host-driven actions aimed at supporting research networks, research organisations and enterprises. The specific objective is to bring together researchers with a different level of experience.The NaMu programme will form a new departure for understanding and working with the diversity of museum institution in Europe by bringing the multidisciplinary field of museum and heritage studies together with a sharp and comparative focus on national museums. The purpose of the programme is to develop the tools, concepts and organisational resources necessary for training researchers, investigating and comparing the major public structure of national museums, responding to challenges of globalisation, European integration, and new media. This will be achieved by a series of conferences providing a venue for younger scholars and eminent researchers from Europe to gather and develop the multi disciplinary competence necessary to understand and compare the dynamics of national museums in a framework of broader studies of historical culture and identity politics. The full programme of six consecutive workshops is presented on the website www.namu.se.
The first conference will work under the heading ”Setting the Frames”,denoting the work of refining the comparative scheme that is presented below. Cultural, archaeological, art, natural and technological museums might be part of forming a national museum in each country.Participation can be granted on the following conditions to one or the whole series of workshops:a) A motivation indicating the applicant’s research interest and ability to contribute and benefit to the workshop(s)b) Suggestions for papers that relate to the comparative design but mightdeal with a variety of empirical questions such as:< How can we understand and define the national museum concept? How has the concept been understood and defined by different actors in the past? Whathistorical, political and cultural contexts are relevant to the creation of national museums?< How are politicians, the public sphere, university disciplines and civilsociety negotiating the concept of National Museum in different nations?Different groups of actors and users might stand for different definingprocesses through both intentions and practices. What historical changes can be identified? How can their role in the broader historical culture be assessed?< How could the creation of and narration within National Museums be read as performative acts, texts, visual and architectural statements and discourses?Among the keynote speakers are professors Tony Bennett and Stefan Berger.More information on the website, www.namu.se and
http://www.namu.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=32&limit=1&limitstart=1.
Send application by registering at namu.se and submit a motivation or an abstract of 1-3 pages to joakim.andersson@isak.liu.se before 15 December 2006. Admittance will be decided before 10 Januray.Grants for participating will cover travel costs and accommodation at theconference.Please forward the call to colleagues!
Norrköping 1 December 2006,
Professor Peter Aronsson (co-ordinator) Culture Studies, Linköpings universitet
Professor Simon KnellMuseum Studies, Leicester University
Professor Arne Bugge AmundsenCulture Studies, Oslo Universitet
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