Museums (em)Power: Introducing Our Keynote Speakers
We are very EXCITED to have two world-class museum experts, Professor Richard Sandell and Dr Zahava Doering, join us as keynote speakers for the Museums (em)Power conference on 13-14 September 2018 at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies.
Since joining the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies in 2007, Professor Richard Sandell has been teaching, supervising, conducting research and collaborating with a wide range of museums and cultural institutions both in the UK and overseas. His research interests focus on the social agency of cultural institutions and especially their potential to overcome prejudice, to promote social justice and human rights.
His recently published book Museums, Moralities and Human Rights looks at museum practice as human right work and explores how sexuality and gender diversity is presented by cultural institutions.
Dr Zahava Doering, a University of Chicago trained sociologist and ethnographer, has extensive experience in social science research and visitor studies in museums. Before recently joining Thinc Design, she worked as a social scientist at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, for three decades and served as Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal for fifteen years. She also publishes extensively, lectures, consults, lead seminars and workshops for museums and other institution across the US and internationally.
The registration for Museums (em)Power is now OPEN. To book, please click here. If you have any questions regarding the booking, please email us at: phd-conference@leicester.ac.uk.
To learn more about our conference, please visit our website: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museums-empower.
Professor Richard Sandell
Professor of Museum Studies
Since joining the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies in 2007, Professor Richard Sandell has been teaching, supervising, conducting research and collaborating with a wide range of museums and cultural institutions both in the UK and overseas. His research interests focus on the social agency of cultural institutions and especially their potential to overcome prejudice, to promote social justice and human rights.His recently published book Museums, Moralities and Human Rights looks at museum practice as human right work and explores how sexuality and gender diversity is presented by cultural institutions.
Dr Zahava Doering
Senior Social Scientist
The registration for Museums (em)Power is now OPEN. To book, please click here. If you have any questions regarding the booking, please email us at: phd-conference@leicester.ac.uk.
To learn more about our conference, please visit our website: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museums-empower.
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