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Taking Stock: Museum Studies & Museum Practices in Canada April 22-24 - Draft program
Greetings all - Many of the sessions at this upcoming conference will be of interest to those working in and with museums in Canada and beyond. Check out the draft program at http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Programme.asp
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A limited number of spaces are still available. Register today!
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Taking Stock: Museum Studies & Museum Practices in Canada
Toronto, Canada
April 22-24, 2010
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Museum Studies program, Faculty of Information, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/
Keynote Speaker is Dr. Robert R. Janes who will draw on reflections from his recently published book, Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?
Over the past 40 years, the discipline of Museum Studies has grown beyond its foundational premise as the study of museum organization and management to become a field informed by interdisciplinarian approaches, pedagogies and techniques. Some have argued that Museum Studies has not only come of age, as an academic discipline it has moved into the mainstream. Yet for many, the very formulation of this discipline continues to be a subject of intense reflection and debate, while its relationship with the community of professional practitioners it intends to serve is complex.
While much has been written on Museum Studies/Museology from the UK, US, Australian and European perspectives, less has been articulated about Canadian traditions in the field. Despite over four decades of formal academic training and almost two centuries of professional practices, there are no Canadian national journals, nor annual academic conferences dedicated to the subject of Museum Studies. Doubtless a Canadian museology exists, however the research of Canadian museum scholars continues to be diffused across regional, linguistic, and disciplinarian lines.
The Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto marks its 40th anniversary with a conference that aims to create a forum for a nation-wide debate and critical examination of the academic discipline of Museum Studies in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts, and how this discipline registers within broader global traditions, pedagogies and practices.
This 3-day conference will bring together academics and practitioners, theorists and students from across the nation and beyond to explore the components of theory and practice that have structured the field of Museum Studies in Canada.
Draft program listing sessions and speakers available at http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Programme.asp
To register online visit: http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Registration.asp Students: $50.00 All others: $150.00
(These fees cover the entire duration of the conference, and include refreshments throughout the event in addition to the conference reception on Friday evening. There are no day rates available for this event.)
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A limited number of spaces are still available. Register today!
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Taking Stock: Museum Studies & Museum Practices in Canada
Toronto, Canada
April 22-24, 2010
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Museum Studies program, Faculty of Information, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/
Keynote Speaker is Dr. Robert R. Janes who will draw on reflections from his recently published book, Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?
Over the past 40 years, the discipline of Museum Studies has grown beyond its foundational premise as the study of museum organization and management to become a field informed by interdisciplinarian approaches, pedagogies and techniques. Some have argued that Museum Studies has not only come of age, as an academic discipline it has moved into the mainstream. Yet for many, the very formulation of this discipline continues to be a subject of intense reflection and debate, while its relationship with the community of professional practitioners it intends to serve is complex.
While much has been written on Museum Studies/Museology from the UK, US, Australian and European perspectives, less has been articulated about Canadian traditions in the field. Despite over four decades of formal academic training and almost two centuries of professional practices, there are no Canadian national journals, nor annual academic conferences dedicated to the subject of Museum Studies. Doubtless a Canadian museology exists, however the research of Canadian museum scholars continues to be diffused across regional, linguistic, and disciplinarian lines.
The Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto marks its 40th anniversary with a conference that aims to create a forum for a nation-wide debate and critical examination of the academic discipline of Museum Studies in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts, and how this discipline registers within broader global traditions, pedagogies and practices.
This 3-day conference will bring together academics and practitioners, theorists and students from across the nation and beyond to explore the components of theory and practice that have structured the field of Museum Studies in Canada.
Draft program listing sessions and speakers available at http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Programme.asp
To register online visit: http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/Registration.asp Students: $50.00 All others: $150.00
(These fees cover the entire duration of the conference, and include refreshments throughout the event in addition to the conference reception on Friday evening. There are no day rates available for this event.)
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