Via Felix Driver, Royal Holloway
May 19, 2015
World Museums: Geographies and Genealogies
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, 5.15pm
In conversation:
Anthony Shelton, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Annie E. Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture & Director of the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London.
This HARC Dialogues event will focus on the idea of the world museum, as expressed originally in the concept of the universal or encyclopaedic museum, and reinvented for the twenty-first century in museums of world cultures: the world, its peoples and their objects, brought under one roof. What does it mean to define the remit and audiences of museums as global? Does it matter where museums are located? What obligations do world museums have to local, national, diasporic or displaced populations? How should world museums deal with difficult and dissonant heritage? What is the relationship between the world museum and world heritage?
In collaboration with the London Group of Historical Geographers
This is a free event. To register for a place, you can email HARC@royalholloway.ac.uk
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/harc
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