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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; text-align: center; ">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; text-align: center; ">Feminism and the Museum Symposium</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; text-align: center; ">An Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association mini-conference</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Date: 8.45am – 5pm, Saturday, 2 November 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Venue: The National Library of Australia, Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Wehner, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Featuring: Suzanne Bellamy, “The Lost Culture of Women’s Liberation, 1969-1974” exhibition/performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">The role of museums and objects in fostering social memory is widely recognized, however, the presence of second wave feminism in museums is limited. This symposium wishes
to address the way in which second wave feminism is, or can be, collected and displayed in museums, and the role of material culture in memorializing feminism. We invite papers from researchers and museum workers that address the intersection of second wave
feminism and the museum, including, but not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">What
is a feminist object?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">What
makes a feminist museum exhibition and collection?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Women’s
museums internationally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">The
New Museology and feminist theory and practice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Private
collections into public archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Curating
feminist objects, training feminist curators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Feminist
collections and the virtual museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Presentations are 20 minutes in length.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Please forward a 200-300 word abstract and contact details to: <a href="mailto:femmuseums2013@gmail.com">femmuseums2013@gmail.com</a> by 30 September. Successful proposals
will be acknowledged by 10 October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Registration: $60 wages, $40 concessional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Further registration details to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Symposium Convenors: Alison Bartlett, The University of Western Australia;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial; ">Margaret Henderson, The University of Queensland</span></p>
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