[csaa-forum] Invitation: Museums, Collecting, Agency Symposium, April 1-2

[Institute for Culture and Society]

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Dear colleagues,

The Institute for Culture and Society cordially invites you to attend the Museums, Collecting, Agency<http://uws.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6b3db5d53c38069ca16f941&id=5760585386&e=12d0e19aa7> symposium on April 1-2 at the Australian Museum in Sydney.

The symposium is jointly hosted by ICS, Australian Museum, the Heritage Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington and the Museum and Heritage Program at the University of Sydney.

The symposium seeks to examine questions of agency as they relate to museum and museum-like practices of collecting, particularly in connection with histories of colonialism and their legacies. The symposium focuses on the question of agency and its implications for understanding ethnographic museum collections and collecting practices.

Keynote speakers are Ann Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and Phil Gordon, Head of Aboriginal Collections at the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Paper presenters include:

Philip Batty, Senior Curator, Anthropology, Melbourne Museum
Tony Bennett, Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney.
Fiona Cameron, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney.
Aaron Corn, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Australian National University.
Brenda L Croft, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
Nélia Dias, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon.
Ben Dibley, Research Associate, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney.
Stephen Gilchrist, Lecturer, Power Institute for Fine Arts, Sydney University.
Rodney Harrison, Reader in Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Michelle Horwood, PhD Candidate, Museum & Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Ira Jacknis, Research Anthropologist, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
Garry Jones, PhD Candidate, Visual Arts, Australian National University.
Sean Mallon, Senior Curator Pacific Cultures, Te Papa.
Conal McCarthy, Associate Professor, Museum & Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Wayne Ngata,Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāti Ira and Ngāti Porou.

Registration fees:

Early bird rates (ends 3 March, 2014)
Waged: $150.00
Concession: $100.00
Full rates (applies after 3 March, 2014)
Waged: $170.00
Concession: $125.00

Visit the conference online website<http://uws.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6b3db5d53c38069ca16f941&id=30bfc51a4f&e=12d0e19aa7> to RSVP. Enquiries can be directed to Fiona Cameron (f.cameron at uws.edu.au<mailto:f.cameron at uws.edu.au>) or Ben Dibley (b.dibley at uws.edu.au<mailto:b.dibley at uws.edu.au>).



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