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The Inaugural Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Reblogged from Material World (with props to Haidy):

                                                                                   

National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8-11 June 2008
http://www.Museum-Conference.com

At this time of fundamental social change, what is the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and perhaps also as an agent of change? The International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is a place where museum practitioners, researchers, thinkers and teachers can engage in discussion on the historic character and future shape of the museum. The key question of the Conference is 'How can the institution of the museum become more inclusive?'

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Inclusive Museum. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 8 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.

Apart from the web site, there will also be a conference journal, The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, and an electronic Newsletter (sign up here),

Film and History in the Pacific Workshop

Film and History in the Pacific

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A Workshop at The Australian National University, Canberra
6-8 February 2008

This workshop explores two questions: how has film shaped Pacific history and understandings of Pacific pasts? and how do – or might – Pacific historians engage with the medium of film? Although film in the Pacific dates back to the late 19th century and is now increasingly the medium through which Pacific pasts are encountered by both Pacific and local audiences, Pacific historians (with a few notable exceptions) have rarely engaged with film and even fewer have been directly involved with film production.

Four themes will guide the workshop:

    * Film, frontiers and imperialism – how film has been used to document Pacific frontiers and advance or oppose imperial interests;
    * War and identity – cinematic portrayals of war and their formative effects on local and metropolitan identities;
    * Islanders and others – representations in film of, by and for Islanders and the depiction of minority groups in the Pacific;
    * Pacific pasts and history through film – on the use of film as a source material; as an approach to researching and representing history; and as a means of communicating to audiences.

Presentations on this last theme will especially serve postgraduate students, filmmakers and historians who have pioneered the use of film or wish to make greater use of it; and teachers and academics guiding and assessing students who want to use film in their research or theses.

A program of screenings is planned in association with the workshop and participants will have the opportunity to visit film repositories in Canberra.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (no more than 200 words) is 31st May 2007. Please forward abstracts and any inquiries to the convenors chris.ballard(at)anu.edu.au or Vicki Luker vicki.luker(at)anu.edu.au.

Attendance is open to all and registration is free, thanks to the support of the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.

International Symposium: Benin – Kings and Rituals

Benin – Kings and Rituals
Court Arts from Nigeria
International Symposium

May 9th-10th 2007

Organized by the
Museum für Völkerkunde
1010 Wien, Austria
Neue Burg
Vortragssaal/Lecture hall

Information:
Tel.: 0043 1 53430-212/270 or 53430-5002/5003
info@ethno-museum.ac.at

Conference language is English

The exhibition Benin — Kings and Rituals, Court Arts from Nigeria marks the first time that masterpieces from Benin dispersed in European and American collections since the late nineteenth century are reunited. Over 300 carefully selected objects offer a broad survey of the royal arts and culture of the Kingdom of Benin from its inception in the fourteenth century to its overthrow by British forces in the late nineteenth century. The exhibition further documents the kingdom’s reconstitution during the colonial period and its continuity into the twenty-first century.

On the occasion of the opening of this important Benin-exhibition the Museum für Völkerkunde Wien organizes an international symposium to highlight the latest research results on art and cultural history of the Benin kingdom from a broad perspective. For the symposium the most well-known experts from Nigeria, Europe and the United States are invited to present the latest results of historical, anthropological and iconographic research.

This offers the singular opportunity for the researchers with differing disciplinary backgrounds to exchange and discuss their research results in the context of a scholarly meeting open to the public. Members of the Benin royal family and representatives of the artists' guilds in Benin will contribute with their important inside view.

Program

Wednesday May 9, 2007

Benin Art and its Turbulent History.

From 08:30 on Registration

09:45 Official Welcome and Opening Session

10:00 Barbara Plankensteiner, Curator, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien
Benin Art. The Causes and Routes of its Dispersal Worldwide

10:30 Prince G.I. Akenzua, Benin City
The Loss of the Benin Artworks and their Original Function

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Joseph Eboreime, Director General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria
Benin Art in the Future Scheme of Nigerian Museums

12:00 Christian Feest, Director, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien
Observations on the Restitution of Cultural Property in a Global Perspective

12:30 Lunch Break

The State of Research on Benin Art and History

History

14:00 Patrick Darling, Bournemouth University, UK
Re-Writing Benin’s History: The Conflicting Roles of Archaeologists, Historians, Ethnographers and Traditional Politics over time

14:30 Adam Jones, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig
European Sources for Benin and its Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries

15:00 Benson Osarhieme Osadolor, University of Benin, Benin City
Benin History Studies. The State of the Discipline and the Flowering of Local History

15:30 Stefan Eisenhofer, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München
Local Histories in Benin and their Problematic

16:00 Coffee Break

Art

16:30 Kathy Curnow, Philadelphia, USA
Benin Art and its Position and Relations in a larger Regional Perspective

17:00 Barbara Blackmun, Las Mesa College San Diego, California, USA
State of Research on the Interpretation of Benin Iconography

Thursday May 10, 2007

Continuation : The State of Research on Benin Art and History

Memory

08:30 Flora Edouwaye Kaplan, New York University
Photography in Benin. A Source of Memories

09:00 Peju Layiwola, Lagos University
New Forms of Commemoration and Remembrance: Commemorative Textiles in Benin

09:30 Charles Gore, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) London
Memory-Making in Art, Ritual and Performance of Benin

10:00 Coffee Break

Collection Histories

10:30 Gisela Völger, Köln
Felix von Luschan and his Relevance for Contemporary Research on Benin

11:00 Silvia Dolz, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden
History and Relevance of the Fairly Known Dresden Benin Collection

11:30 Kay Heymer, Essen
Benin Art and Modernism

Benin Art today and the Quest for Authenticity

12:00 Daniel Inneh, Benin City
Surviving Guilds in Benin. Their Function in Society and Relation to the Royal Palace

12:30 Chief K. Osarhenhen Inneh, Benin City, Ine of the Bronzecasters Guild
Prospects for the Bronzecasters Guild in Benin

13:00 Lunch Break

14:30 Joseph Nevadomsky, Fullerton University California, USA
Contemporary Brass-Casting Production and Styles in Benin

15:00 Paula Ben-Amos Girshick, Indiana University, USA
Benin Art in the Global Market: Circulating across the African Continent

15:30 Chika Okeke-Agulu, Philadelphia
The Burden of Tradition: Modern Edo Artists and the Legacy of "Benin" Art

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Thomas Fillitz, Universität Wien
The Issue of Authenticity in Relation to African Art

17:00 Peter Junge, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
The Chronology of Benin Art. Limitations of Stylistic and Scientific Methods of Dating

17:30 Break

Benin as Trademark. The Production and Market of Fake Benin Bronzes

18:00 Roundtable Discussion with:
Barbara Blackmun, Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Joseph Nevadomsky, Peter
Junge, Peter Krejsa
Moderation/Chair: Barbara Plankensteiner

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Participation Fee: € 40,-
Reduction (Students, Friends of the Museum): €15,-

Roundtable Discussion: Benin as Trademark: Free Admission
Limited number of participants

Information and Registration:
Tel.: 0043 1 53430-212/270 or 53430-5002/5003
info@ethno-museum.ac.at

Registration and Payment will be closed by 27th April 2007.

MMA SYMPOSIUM: Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf

SYMPOSIUM
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance:
Art of the Papuan Gulf

Noted scholars present a series of lectures about the traditional sculpture of the Papuan Gulf and the photographs that chronicle it. Topics include new discoveries about the Museum’s rare photographs, the ways in which these images form visual biographies of the objects,
and how they expand our knowledge of the history of art and photography in the Pacific.

LECTURES

10:30    Welcome and Introductory Remarks
His Excellency Evan J. Paki, Ambassador of Papua New Guinea to the United States of America

11:00    Art Forms across the Papuan Gulf
Robert L. Welsch, Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, and Adjunct Curator of Anthropology, The Field Museum

11:30    Papuan Gulf Art and the National Museum
Sebastine Haraha, Senior Technical Officer, Department of Anthropology, National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea

12:00    Break for lunch

1:30    In Situ: Photographs of Art in the Papuan Gulf
Virginia-Lee Webb, Research Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2:00    Creating Images: Frank Hurley and the Australian Museum’s Collections
from the Gulf of Papua
Jim Specht, Senior Fellow, Australian Museum

FILM

2:30    The Mythic Camera of Frank Hurley (2004)
Directed by Simon Nasht (53 min.)

LECTURES

3:30    A Century After Outsiders Came to Visit: Life in the Purari Delta Today
Kaia Rove, Local Level Government Councillor of Ward 14, Baimuru District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

4:00    Canoes, Carvings, and the Ancestors: Fluid Forms of the Purari Delta of
Papua New Guinea
Joshua A. Bell, Lecturer in Arts of the Pacific, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia

Free with Museum admission; tickets and reservations are not required. For more information, please consult the Museum's online Calendar at www.metmuseum.org,
call (212) 396-5460, or contact lectures@metmuseum.org.

This symposium is made possible by The Billy Rose Foundation, Inc.

The exhibition Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art until December 2, 2007.

The exhibition is made possible by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

It was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Programs occur in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

Maya Meetings @ UT Austin

via petiteMort.org:

  Friday March 9th - Wed May 14th:

Maya Meet 2007
The River Cities: Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, Pomona

University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History
Austin, TX 78712

Maya Meet at UT in Austin

Times: Check website for details. Friday, Sat, Sun, presentations and forums; Mon, Tues, Wed reserved for specialized Workshops.

Admission: Per event, check website for details. The Mayan Glyphs Workshops run from Monday through Wednesday, are offered per course registration fee.

Every year scholars and students of Meso-American culture meet in Austin to discuss new findings in the field. In addition to the presentations and forums specialized workshops are offered as a crash course to the deciphering Mayan writing. Beginners to advanced classes are available.

The focus of the 2007 Maya Meetings at Texas is the Usumacinta River region (Southern Mexico, Western Guatemala), looking at both ancient sites and contemporary issues.

Reexamining Appropriation @ CAA

I attended a fascinating discussion last week about appropriation and visual art in the context of historical precedent and recent developments in copyright law. This panel was part of the annual College Art Association conference, but because of the interest in the topic, it was open to the public and held at the New York City Bar Association, at 42 W. 44th Street. The panelists included the Hon. Pierre Leval, who first articulated the "transformative" test critical to all artists confronted with copyright infringement claims.

Here is my re-cap of the session via NEWSgrist, 2/17/07:

Reexamining Appropriation: CAA Takes Over NYC Bar

Reexamining Appropriation:
The Copy, the Law, and Beyond

held Friday, February 16, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm: New York City Bar Association

PROGRAM:

Inappropriate? Copying in the Renaissance
Lisa Pon, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University held

The Reign of the Quotation–Appropriation and Its Audience
Johanna Burton, Princeton University

From Appropriation to Postproduction
Jaimey Hamilton, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

Appropriation v. Piracy, Round Two?
The Hon. Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google

Chairs:
Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art;
Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Conference on Pacific Island Material Culture Documentation

This conference seeks to bring attention to Pacific collection materials that are not well known but that have special value to Pacific communities and to the general public. It also seeks to focus attention on issues and developments regarding access to these materials, as well as to digitizing projects underway. An international group of Pacific librarians will share information about their collections and discuss common concerns.

The keynote speaker for the conference is award-winning poet, author, and former librarian Robert Sullivan, a UHM assistant professor of English. Other featured speakers include David Kukutai Jones, Maori specialist at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand; and Ewan Maidment, Executive Officer of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra, Australia. The conference convener is Dr Karen Peacock, UHM Pacific curator and head of Special Collections.

Conference registration information is on the Web. Registration is $20 general and $5 students. The registration deadline is 1 March 2007.

The conference is sponsored by the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies through a US DOE Title VI National Resource Center Grant. It is also supported by the UHM library system.

For more information, contact CPIS outreach coordinator, Tisha Hickson, at ctisha@hawaii.edu. For program information, contact Karen Peacock, at peacock@hawaii.edu.

CAA highlights preview

With apologies for any FOGs (Friends of Goldwater) whose contributions I've acidentally omitted ...

Here is a selection of presentations and speakers at the upcoming College Art Association annual conference pertaining to the arts of our subject areas, museums and libraries.

AAA & ASA agree to reciprocal conference privileges

From the September 2006 Anthropology News:

AAA and African Studies Association Agree to Reciprocal Entry to Annual Meetings
By Bill Davis, AAA Executive Director

The American Anthropological Association and the African Studies Association (ASA) have a standing agreement to prevent, where possible, a conflict in the dates of our annual meetings. Since both organizations typically schedule annual meeting dates several years out, we have been able to achieve that objective in recent years.

This year's unfortunate scheduling conflict is a result of a shift in location and dates for AAA's 2006 Annual Meeting caused by the continuing labor/hotel management dispute in San Francisco.

With the dispute anticipated to remain unsettled during the original dates set for AAA's meeting in San Francisco, AAA's board was forced to relocate its 2006 meetings to San José [California]. Unavoidably, the only dates available in San José brought them into conflict with ASA's planned 2006 meeting.

The ASA's contract, concluded in 2003, is with a hotel that has expressed support for labor's request and is thus exempt from the labor boycott.

AAA greatly regrets the overlap in our 2006 meeting dates, but has been working with the ASA to facilitate member participation in both annual meetings.

AAA and ASA have agreed that a registration badge for either meeting will allow reciprocal entry to the other. Both AAA and ASA value their members' participation in each others' meetings and look forward to successful annual meetings in 2006.

American Anthropological Association: Nov. 15-19, 2006, McEntery Convention Center, San José
African Studies Association: Nov. 16-19, 2006, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco

Feather Creations: June 2004 Coloquio now online

Image from Walter Baumgartner,
"The Aztec Feather Shield in Vienna: Problems of Conservation."[Link]

via Diana Fane (thanks!):

The June 2004 feather seminar is now online. The dossier is published in the electronic scientific journal Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, and is presented as an "evolving" publication: the texts are not the final proceedings of a congress, but a record of research in progress which will stimulate further exchange of ideas and information...

Coloquio :
Feather Creations. Materials, Production and Circulation

New York, Hispanic Society-Institute of Fine Arts 17-19/06/2004
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Diana Fane, Alessandra Russo, Gerhard Wolf
Feather Creations. Materials, Production and Circulation. An International Seminar, New York, June 17-19, 2004

Walter Baumgartner
The Aztec Feather Shield in Vienna: Problems of Conservation

Frances Berdan
Circulation of Feathers in Mesoamerica

Claire Bergeaud, Frédérique Vincent
Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych

Christine Giuntini (*AAOA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art*) 
Precolumbian and Ethnographic Featherwork from the Andes and Amazon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Carolusa González Tirado
The Tzauhtli Glue

Eleanor MacLean
The Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio

Diana Magaloni-Kerpel
Real and Illusory Feathers: Pigments, Painting Techniques, and the Use of Color in Ancient Mesoamerica

Dolores Medina
Mosaicos de plumas en el Museo de América

Teresa Ortíz Salazar
The Feather Adarga of Philip II and the Escorial Miter

Ellen J. Pearlstein
The Feather Conservation Survey. Introduction to Conservation Issues for the Feather Creations Seminar

Rosa Lorena Román Torres
Noticias sobre la conservación del mosaico de plumas « Cristo Salvador del mundo » del Museo Nacional del Virreinato, México

Christian Feest
Feather Art in the European Collections

Laura Filloy Nadal, Felipe Solís Olguín
El cubre-caliz del Museo Nacional de Antropología

Elena Isabel Estrada de Gerlero
El arte plumario colonial novohispano y el grabado europeo. Un ejemplo de interacción

Serge Gruzinski
Les plumes du Mexique et de la mondialisation des arts

Lourdes Navarijo Ornelas
Some Aspects of the Art of Feather Works in Prehispanic Mexico:Algunos aspectos sobre el arte plumaria en el México prehispánico