Category: Museum Anthropology Blog

CMA-SPONSORED IN-PERSON PANELS/POSTERS

(2-1620) Anthropology at St. Louis and Before

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Oral Presentation (In-Person)

Council for Museum Anthropology

11/18/2021: 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM

Sean O’Neill, Christopher Lowman, Richard Warms, Robert Launay, Reece McGee

(2-1460) Entangled Histories and Bundles of Relations: Contemporary Ethnographic Work In and Around Collections

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Invited Session – Oral Presentation (In-Person)

Council for Museum Anthropology

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM

Catherine Nichols, Diana Marsh, Kristin Otto, Christopher Berk, Howard Morphy

(3-2233) From Ecomuseum to Museum Family: Developments in China and Taiwan

Friday, November 19, 2021

Poster (In-Person)

Council for Museum Anthropology

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Yanqi Wei

(4-3340) Anthropology In/Of Museums and Their Collections

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Volunteered – Oral Presentation (In-Person)

Council for Museum Anthropology

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Chris Urwin, Lawrence Ramirez, Sylvia Ngo, Meryl Shriver-Rice, Elizabeth Oakley, Foster W. Krupp, Sonia Barragan

OTHER IN-PERSON PANELS/POSTERS OF INTEREST

(3-2120) Organizing and Curating Museums during the Pandemic: Truth, Responsibility, and Repatriations

Friday, November 19, 2021

Oral Presentation (In-Person)

Association for Africanist Anthropology

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM

Preminda Jacob, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Erica Fontana, J.R. Osborn, Shannen Hill

(5-3640) Commodification and Environmentalism: The Political Economy of Defining Cultural Heritage

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Volunteered – Oral Presentation (In-Person)

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM

Nicholas Denning, Rowenn Kalman, Jocelyn Moylan, Amy Medvick, Rebecca Irons, Meredith Main Sá

CMA-SPONSORED VIRTUAL PANELS/PODCASTS/TALKS

(2-1690) “Small Museums—Large Truths”

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Oral Presentation (Virtual)

Council for Museum Anthropology

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM

John Bodinger de Uriarte, Sigurjon Hafsteinsson, Joseph Gonzales, Anna Runarsdottir, Bergsveinn Thorsson

(3-2553) A Conversation on Community-led Databases: Surveying Methods of Knowledge Sovereignty

 Friday, November 19, 2021

Invited Session – Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual)

Council for Museum Anthropology

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Christina Hodge, Diana Marsh, Cara Krmpotich, Ricardo Punzalan, Alexandria Rayburn, Sandrena Raymond

OTHER VIRTUAL PANELS/PODCASTS/TALKS OF INTEREST

(3-2122) Native Americans and Museums: International Perspectives and Collaborative Prospects.

Friday, November 19, 2021

Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual)

Society for the Anthropology of North America

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM

Robert Collins, Justin Richland, Alaka Wali, Markus Lindner

CMA-SPONSORED ASYNCHRONOUS CONTENT

(0-0430) Remediating Sky Blanket: A conversation with Jaad Kuujus.

Podcast (Virtual)

Council for Museum Anthropology

Hannah Turner, Kate Hennessy, Meghann O’Brien

(0-0980) Global Themes in Local Context: A Case Study of a Japanese Human Rights Museum

Talk (Virtual)

Council for Museum Anthropology

Lisa Mueller

(0-1240) Constructing Arab Cultural Heritage from Museums-Based Materials

Talk (Virtual)

Council for Museum Anthropology

Sara Ann Knutson

OTHER ASYNCHRONOUS CONTENT OF INTEREST

(0-0310) Schools and local museums in the Pyrenees. Some reflections on the relationship between cultural and educational institutions from an ethnographic approach.

Talk (Virtual)

Council on Anthropology and Education

Elizabeth Pérez Izaguirre 

(0-1910) Shifting Post-colonial Narratives of the U.S. South: Historic Houses, Tour Talk, and Museum Scripts

Flash Presentations (Virtual)

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Lori Donath

(0-1120) Dulac-You-Wanna: Cultural Heritage and Subsiding Ecologies in Louisiana’s Coastal Marsh

Thesis Competition (Virtual)

National Association of Student Anthropologists

Dustin Reuther

(0-1670) Authority and Authenticity: an ethnographic discourse analysis of the safeguarding of Zhuang ethnic minority heritage

Late Breaking – Individual Poster (Virtual)

Executive Program Committee

Linfei Yi

 

The Institute of African Studies at Emory University is pleased to host a conversation with Teju Cole as the kick-off for the Fall 2021 symposium, Think Again! African Arts, Museum Politics, and Savior Complexes.

We invite you to join us for this one-day virtual event as we hear from a broad range of university and museum-based professionals—some located in African institutions and others in North American ones—to consider different power dynamics and other concerns at play and to the discuss the topic of restitution and demands for action.

The aim is to listen carefully to a variety of informed perspectives, including ones that may unsettle, inconvenience, or otherwise prompt us to rethink what we thought we knew. 

REGISTER HERE

Archives are repositories that help shape public and community memory. Traditional archival theory has upheld control of the historical record by colonial institutions, western perspectives, and whiteness. This power has been used to marginalize, other, undervalue, and erase diversity within the archive and public memory. As a result, colonial institutions have perpetuated their own biases against non-western worldviews to mobilize public memory in support of ongoing colonization.   

Today, archives are used to empower, fill gaps, educate, and celebrate the voices and perspectives of those traditionally barred from this work. Transformative practice allows us to rethink traditional western theory, forge a path of solidarity, and uphold our work based on collective values in regards to archival work. The power of archives and memory keeping is evolving into something new. UnSettled hopes to shine a spotlight on the many ways the profession is redefining archives and archival work.  

We welcome proposals in all formats, consider: individual traditional papers, panel sessions, full sessions, round-tables, or feel free to suggest something new!  We encourage participation from all individuals and organizations involved in memory work, including students, new professionals and community archivists.  Our goal is to hear from a variety of perspectives.    

More here.

Mark your calendar! The 2021 CMA Business Meeting will be held virtually on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 12 pm (Central)/ 1pm (EST). Please come hear news and join the discussion.

Topic: CMA Business Meeting

Time: Oct 23, 2021 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/96739288033?pwd=VGovVWRFT3l2Tkd3MytRNFBONHJVUT09

Meeting ID: 967 3928 8033

Passcode: qwQP9n

The Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society seeks to hire an Engagement Coordinator for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR). This position will assist in implementing the Native American Scholars Initiative by developing and executing innovative programs at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research as well as providing mentorship for fellows and interns; work with Native American communities and community-based scholars to provide access to the Library & Museum’s Indigenous-related collections from reference request onward; as well as cultivate new and steward existing partnerships.

More here.

Over the course of the last decade, many museums have embraced new ways of storytelling. In dialogue with their communities and audiences, and often under pressure by museum activists, museum staff and curators have grappled with systemic racism and their institutions’ implications in histories of colonialism, nationalism, and exclusion. 

In response, curators of history, art, archeological and anthropological museums have enlisted contemporary artists as well as new and traditional narrative and visual media to face these entangled memories and histories, to embrace practices of redress and repair, and to tackle other pressing contemporary issues, among them global warming, migration, genocide, and systems of inequality. Critical museum practices have consciously sought to break with linear narratives of progress and began to experiment with new forms of “recognition and identification to unsettle received narratives about the past and/or to produce new forms of subjectivity” (Andrea Witcomb). Other museums, however, have held on to and reimagined narratives of scientific progress, nostalgia, and national celebration. We are interested in the simultaneity of divergent narrative modalities found in contemporary museums: in multivocality and -lingualism as well as in mono-perspectival exhibition concepts.

More here.

Are you planning to intern at a museum this summer or hoping to find an opportunity in the next year or two? Are you interested in learning how you can make the most of your experience? If so, please join Dr. David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums, to discuss goal setting, finding a mentor, identifying opportunities for growth, and other important aspects of a successful internship. Former museum interns will also participate in this candid discussion of their experiences in order to help you prepare for your museum adventure. Open to anyone interested in pursuing museum-based internships in anthropology and its allied fields.

The University of Manchester invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a permanent, full-time Lectureship in Arts and Cultural Management. 

The post offers an opportunity to make a significant contribution to ICP’s and AHCP’s research, teaching, and knowledge exchange. We welcome applicants whose academic training and research interests are in arts and cultural management and its relationship to the broader cultural and creative industries. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in candidates who have been developing critical, collaborative, and impact-led cultural practice research and innovative teaching in one or more of the broad areas of audiences, marketing and engagement in arts, culture and heritage; cultural policy and cultural economics; decolonisation and ethics of care; cultural activism; digital memory; and arts, culture and wellbeing. Relevant research, teaching, or practice-based/professional experience in global cultural and creative industries management would be particularly welcome.

More here.

For years, Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum have worked tirelessly to make university collections accessible to the Emory community and beyond, forming a strong connection through shared goals and values.

Reviews conducted last year identified opportunities for both the libraries and the museum to be better positioned to serve as centers of excellence within the university. Leadership transitions at the Carlos Museum and the libraries, and the recent separation of Emory Libraries from Information Technology, presented ideal timing for restructuring.

This formal connection between the libraries and museum builds on their strong relationship; is designed to facilitate closer coordination in the fulfilment of their mutual educational, research, and discovery missions; and ultimately will enhance support for both.

Uniting these two areas will strengthen our academic programs and is perfectly aligned with our aspirations for research eminence. This restructuring is about preparing for future investments and alignment with our strategic priorities.

A new Vice Provost for Libraries and Museum will work closely with the Office of the Provost and provide support in planning for the future of both areas, including advancing the digitization, cataloging, and conservation of the university’s extraordinary collections while continuing to expand access.

More here.