MEG and AGM Conference, Brighton
Brave New Worlds - Transforming Museum Ethnography through Technology
MEG Annual Conference and AGM, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
in partnership with the University of Brighton
15 – 16 April 2013
15 – 16 April 2013
Booking is now open for this conference: http://www.
Museums exist in a digital era where communication is instant and global. How are new technologies being harnessed to develop and disseminate knowledge about ethnographic museum collections? To what extent does technology facilitate ‘global’ dialogues? To what extent does it limit them? Is the growth of new technologies enabling wider ownership of knowledge or creating new knowledge elites? What impact is social media having upon how collections knowledge can be generated and shared? Is technology creating new cultural objects and, if so, how can these be collected or recorded?
Speakers include representatives from the BritishMuseum, the HornimanMuseum, the Tropenmuseum, the Museum of Archaeologyand Anthropology, University of Cambridge and the PittRivers Museum,University of Oxford. The conference programme is available here: http://www.
A conference dinner will be held on Monday 15 April at The Chilli Pickle, 17 Jubilee Street, Brighton.
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