Museum Studies Colloquium Translating Knowledge
Global Perspectives on Museum and Community What happens to the meaning, the knowledge, associated with an object as it moves from its community of origin to the museum? What role can the community play in this process of translation and transformation? Can partnerships between community and museum mitigate the social and ethical challenges of appropriating and interpreting other people’s things and ideas? Translating Knowledge considers strategies for engaging communities in the complex processes of interpreting and presenting their histories and cultures in the museum. This year-long series of lectures and workshops brings to the University of Michigan nine international scholars whose work offers new models for confronting the social and political challenges of ownership and representation in museums and other cultural institutions. Each colloquium participant will present a lecture that examines the theory and a workshop that explores the practice of their community-engaged scholarship. All lectures will be presented on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm, in the Helmut Stern Auditorium in the UM Museum of Art; all workshops will held on Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 pm, in the Multi-Purpose Room in the UM Museum of Art. All events are free and open to the public. Schedule of Presentations "Writing Local Community Histories in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Current Practices and Imagining New Possibilities" "Networks or Entanglements? Museums and Native American Knowledges" "Challenging Museum Sustainability: Governance, Community Participation and the Fickle Political Climate in Southern Luzon (Philippines) Towns" "Open Access Versus the Culture of Protocols" "Locating Culture with/in a Ghanaian Community" "Ko Tawa: Where Are the Glass Cabinets?" "Communities and Museums: Equal Partners?" "Indigenous Ontologies, Digital Futures: Plural Provenances and the Challenge of Collaborative Museum Documentation" "Museums and Their Communities or Communities and Their Museums" |