[Commlist] Museums as Agents of Memory and Change

*Museums as Agents of Memory and Change*

April 24‐26, 2019, Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia

Conference website: http://enmconferences.ee/en

Registration information: early bird until March 15th

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/224982601707378/

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We invite participation in the Museums as Agents of Memory and Change 
conference. The conference will take place in Tallinn and Tartu, 
Estonia, from 24^th to 26^th April, 2019.

*The aim of the conference is to bring together museum practitioners and 
researchers to problematise museums as places of memory negotiation and 
agents of social change. Our invited keynote speakers are Professor 
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine.*

While increasingly seeking to engage themselves in public life, museums 
are embedded in the fields of politics of memory and heritage, diverse, 
often disparate group interests, and power relations. More than ever, 
dealing with the past is full of impediments and challenges for museums. 
The conference will bring together 50 speakers, academics and museum 
practitioners from a wide range of countries to discuss the following 
topics:

·The politics and policies of memory: what is the role of museums during 
political transformations; how can museums address the legacies of 
colonialism, dictatorships, genocide, warfare, forced migration; do 
museums have any power to break established memory narratives and build 
new ones; how should museums relate to activism; how are museums 
embedded in global memory culture?

·The politics of collection, curation and representation: how should 
collections be revised vis-à-vis changing societies; how inconvenient 
and conflicting pasts be represented; how can museums tell stories about 
the future with collections from the past; what are the limitations and 
relevance of museum collections and what challenges do curators face; 
what possibilities are there within curatorial practice to make 
heritage(s) and empower visitors?

·The challenges of participation and collaboration: what does it really 
mean to give authority over museum content to the citizen; how can 
museums target multiple groups and discuss complex subjects with 
visitors; what characterises visitor involvement on site; how can 
museums successfully encourage debate and find new ways to engage 
communities; how can museum professionals be assisted when engaged in 
tension-creating discourses?

Details on keynote speakers, programme and abstracts can be found at: 
http://enmconferences.ee/conference-memory-and-museums-2019

The conference venue is located at the Estonian History Museum (Tallinn) 
and the Estonian National Museum (Tartu), thus providing inspirational 
insights to the multifaceted Estonian museum landscape. Organised tours 
of core exhibitions will be available at both museums.

The conference fee covers lunches, coffee breaks, reception and return 
travel from Tallinn to Tartu.

The conference is part of the Estonian National Museum annual conference 
series.

Conference organisers: University of Tartu, Department of Ethnology; the 
Estonian National Museum

Conference contact: (conference /at/ erm.ee) <mailto:(conference /at/ erm.ee)>

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