Don’t miss the next Mela Seminar: Envisioning 21st Century Museums!
A Public Symposium will take place on the 31st of May 2012 at the Post and Tele Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
You can find more information about the event on our website, here.
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Call for PapersTheme: Genealogies of Colonial Violence Type: International Conference Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies and the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom) Date: 1.–2.6.2012 Deadline: 10.4.2012 http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/genealogies-colonial-violence [...]
EUNAMUS next Conference will be held in Oslo on June 27-29. “In a Europe realizing the impact of globalization and human mass migration, the role of the national museums is put to debate. Studies from five different countries on how nations (and EU) develop policy in order to deploy national museums in redefinition of the nation state will be presented at this conference, establishing an arena in which museologists and cultural politicians get the chance to meet and debate a matter deeply important to everybody concerned with cultural identity uses.” You can find more information, the program and a list of the guest speakers on our website, here.
The deadline of the Call for Paper ‘Placing’ Europe in the Museum: people(s), places, identities, that will take place in Newcastle, UK, on the 3-4th September 2012, has been extended to 30th April. You can find more information about the International Conference on our website, here.
Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, attended the Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) conference on “Engaging research”, co-convened by Prof. Rebecca Kay, on 2nd March 2012. The University of Glasgow’s Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, NGOs and policy makers working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. As the title suggests, the conference brought together researchers and organisations to jointly develop ideas for research projects that would benefit both parties, through: Short presentations from a range of academic partners showcasing their projects and focusing on process design/methods/challenges/lessons. Parallel Discussion Sessions to bring together organisations and potential researchers around central research questions with a view to trying to develop viable research projects.
The University of Glasgow academic community has a wide range of expertise in relation to refugees, asylum and migration. The City of Glasgow is host to the largest [...] The paper “Bridging multicultural communities: developing the framework for a EU Transnational Museums and Libraries Network” by Perla Innocenti, John Richards, Sabine Wieber (University of Glasgow) has been successfully accepted at the Digital Humaties (DH) International Conference 2012. The theme of the conference, which is taking place on 16 – 22 july 2012 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, focuses on ‘Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and method’, is also relevant for MeLA topics. Conference organisers specifically invited proposals on the potential and impact of digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Our paper has been highly praised by the reviewers, and we are looking forward to disseminating MeLA and RF03 research !
International Conference as part of the MeLA* – European Museums in an Age of Migrations European Commission FP7-funded project Organised by the International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, Newcastle University 3-4 September 2012 Call for Papers The imperatives surrounding the museum representation of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. This is in part because the political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, recognition of changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. These issues, taken historically, have particular significance for contemporary understandings of the role [...] Report from the Bruxelles meeting on 09.02.2012 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES. Insights from European Research supported under the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes Promoted by European Commission Main questions • Is a common European identity or are several diverging European identities emerging, and if yes, what shape(s) does it, do they, take? • What (policy and research) implications does the development of a European identity, European identities have for the European Union? The meeting was arranged in the following 4 thematic sessions • Session 1: Dimensions, definitions, problems of European identity/identities • Session 2: Political Europe • Session 3: Transnational mobilità • Session 4: Tendencies toward homogenizing and diversifying Europe They were articulated in 1 key speach, a roundtable with a panel of invited discussants and 20 min open plenary discussion. Target participants (between 30 and 50 along the long day) • representatives from [...] |
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