The U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology’s newest issue of their newsletter is now live! Read it here as a pdf.
Tag: museum studies
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology has released their 2023 newsletter. Content from this year includes residue analysis in Oaxaca, Mexico, artifacts found in Chenque Pehuén, and the ReConnect/ReCollect open house. You can read the newsletter here as a pdf or as an e-zine. To learn more about their department, museum, and current research, follow this link to their website.
The Podcast We The Museum, hosted by Hannah Hethmon, has a new episode entitled “Museum Unions? Museum Unions!” The description is as follows:
To paraphrase Adam Rizzo, museums won’t do the right thing by their workers just because we ask nicely. In a field rife with labor issues, museum workers are increasingly turning to unions. In this episode of We THE MUSEUM, Adam Rizzo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union shares their multi-year journey from hushed initial conversations to a three-week strike that was ultimately successful. He walked me through the unionization process and reflected on why unions will make this field stronger.
Listen to the new episode here!
The podcast, We The Museum, by Hannah Hethmon has two new episodes available for streaming.
Episode 14 “The Ethics of Museum Mummies (with Angela Steinne)”: Why are there mummies in your museum? Should they be there? What are visitors getting out of an encounter with ancient Egyptian remains? What happens when remains in museums become objectified and normalized to this extent? Is there an ethical way to display mummies? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Angela Stienne, a historian of museums and researcher in museum ethics based in Paris. You will never think about mummies in museums the same after this episode.
Episode 13 “Environmental Restorations at Ford House (with Mike Heppner and Kevin Drotos)”: Can museums and historic sites be leaders in environmental conservation and restoration? The Ford House in Michigan recently won a grant of up to $7 million from NOAA to restore the coastal habitats of their lakeside property. I talked to Ford House’s President & CEO, Mark Heppner, and their Landscape and Natural Areas Manager, Kevin Drotos, to learn more. They shared the progress so far on this bold project and we discussed our field’s responsibilities to care for people and nature. Plus, get ready to learn some fun facts about flora and fauna in this region.
Listen to the podcast here!
The Spencer Museum of Art is currently open to applications for its position of Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways.
The Museum at the University of Kansas stewards and supports broad public engagement with a collection of more than 48,000 works of art created across a wide range of time periods, geographic locations, and cultural affiliations. The Museum seeks a Curator responsible for the collaborative stewardship, care, and accessibility of the approximately 9,300 objects that comprise the collection of Global Indigenous art. This collection encompasses historical and more contemporary artworks across mediums that came to the Museum through a variety of channels, often by people associated with the University. More recent museum purchases have expanded the collection in ways that insert Indigenous art into global dialogues about art, environment, culture, and social change. Integral to the position, the Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways will actively engage contemporary Indigenous knowledge keepers and community members to build lasting relationships and integrate their voices, perspectives, and beliefs into museum practices and programming.
For full details and to apply click the link here.
Application review begins November 3, 2023
The Rutgers Art Review is excited to announce their publication of volume 39 of their Graduate Journal of Research in Art History, which can be accessed here. It is edited by Brittney Bailey, Jessica Mingoia, Sara Varnese, and Margo Weitzman. It includes two essays:
“Before-and-After Portraiture: Photography and Time at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School ”
By María Beatriz H. Carrión
“The Quiet Landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project”
By Kaila T. Schedeen
It also includes two exhibition reviews:
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color – telling (not engaging) the history of polychromy”
By Tyler Henegan
“On Duality and Juxtaposition: The de la Torre Brothers at the Cheech”
By Emma Oslé
The HCDG is a network run out of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre that brings together a large, diverse community of people actively engaging with a vast array of topics surrounding heritage and colonialism. For the upcoming academic year (2023-2024), the HCDG invites proposals for presentations centred around the theme: “It’s Complicated”.
BUT WHAT DOES “COMPLICATED” MEAN?
The term “complicated” has often been used to dismiss or excuse action when heritage matters related to colonialism are discussed. The theme “It’s Complicated” seeks to reclaim the word as a tool for unravelling nuanced colonial issues throughout time and exploring the barriers as well as the potential avenues for engaging with them in the present.
By this call, we encourage submissions from all disciplines and professions that address colonial issues that may be characterised as “complicated” with the view to exploring their complexity.
Potential themes include but are not limited to:
- Museum Studies and Praxis
- Heritage Narratives and Representations
- Institutional Policies and Practice
- Cultural Heritage and the Law
- Heritage Ethics
PRESENTATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The HCDG will hold one-hour online sessions from October 2023 – March 2024.
Speakers will have 20-25 minutes to give their presentations, which will then be followed by a moderated 30 minute Q&A session. Participants have the option of having their presentations recorded and published on the HCDG YouTube channel.
To submit a proposal, please send the following to hcdg.universityofcambridge@gmail.com:
- An abstract of maximum 250 words
- A bio of maximum 100 words
Application deadline: 20 AUGUST 2023 (GMT 23:59)
Applicants will be notified about the outcome of their submissions by 31 August 2023.
