News & Events
Postgraduate funding opportunities for 2009/10 at the Centre for Museology
The Centre for Museology is offering post-graduate funding at both MA and PhD level, including bursaries and full scholarships. See our funding pages for more details.
Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference examining the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject.
Call for Papers
Centre for Museology Autumn Seminar Series 2009
Monday 12th October, 5pm
Mansfield Cooper 2.03
Shirley Chubb
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Chichester
Hold, Ubique & Thinking Path: Visual Expressions of Encounter
Monday 16th November, 5pm
Mansfield Cooper 2.03
Giles Waterfield
Associate Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art
The Artist's Studio: Conceiving an Exhibition
Monday 7th December, 5pm
Mansfield Cooper 2.03
Richard Williams
Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
The Museum of the Sexual Revolution: Wilhelm Reich at Orgonon
Everyone Welcome!
For more info, email robert.knifton@manchester.ac.uk
'Manchester on Display' Student Exhibitions - The Video
The video of the 'Manchester on Display' student exhibitions 2008-9 is now available. MA students on the course 'Museums, Museology & Museographies' curated four exhibitions on the theme of 'Manchester' in the Museology showcase in the foyer of the Mansfield Cooper Building. Each exhibition was up for a week from November to December 2008. Images of the exhibitions' installation process are also available on Flickr.
PhD student gets a Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Christopher Plumb has been awarded a Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and will finish writing his PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) in Berlin between September 2009 and March 2010. Chris has been writing his thesis 'Nature Collected, Nature Captured: the changing spectacle and meanings of exotic animals in Britain, 1675-1828' at the Centre for Museology and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine since September 2006. He is supervised by Dr Sam Alberti and Prof. John Pickstone.
The University of Manchester
RAE Results
'The Centre for Museology has contributed to an excellent showing in the recently announced RAE 2008 results. Staff in the Centre contributed to the submission made by Art History & Visual Studies'.
Head of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Performance, Learning, Heritage Project
For the past three years, the Centre for Museology has been involved in a major research project into the relationships between "Performance, Learning, Heritage". The project director is Professor Tony Jackson in Drama, and Helen Rees Leahy (Museology) has been a member of the Steering Group and a co-supervisor of the PhD student (Joel Chalfen) attached to the project. Now the project has formally finished, click here to find out how to access its findings. For more information about the project, visit the project's website.
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