News & Events
Postgraduate funding opportunities for 2010/11 at the Centre for Museology
Deadline March 15th
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.
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Centre for Museology Postgraduate Research ForumTuesday 8th June 2010
'Manchester on Display' Student Exhibitions 2009/10
Launch of the Institute for Cultural Practices
The Centre for Museology is now part of the new Institute for Cultural Practices (ICP) in the School of Arts Histories and Cultures.
The Institute provides a platform for innovative research, postgraduate teaching and professional development which engages with cultural producers and organizations in Greater Manchester and beyond. The Institute brings together researchers, practitioners and students across a range of disciplines, including: Applied Theatre, Arts Management and Cultural Policy, Museology, Music Composition, New Writing and Screen Studies. Whether you are a prospective student, a professional practitioner, a policy-maker or a researcher, we hope that the programmes and activities offered by the Institute will be of value and interest to you.
For more information about the ICP, visit our website.
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. Find out more
Centre for Museology Spring Series 2010
Everyone is welcome to come along to our Research Seminar programme in which scholars and practitioners present new work on the theory, history and practice of museums.
Monday 8th February
Frances Larson
Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology, Durham University
The 'bric-a-bracquers': An exploration into the demographics of collecting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Larson's lecture will draw on her groundbreaking research into the history of both the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Wellcome Collection to explore the demographics of collecting.
Monday 22nd February
Bernadette Lynch
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Museums and civil society: Resistance, activism and social change
This paper will examine how, by embracing the dynamic of the political the museum may become an important partner in agitating for social awareness and change.
Monday 1st March
Julie Sheldon
Reader in Art History, Liverpool John Moores University
'Enthusiasm and Unwearied Diligence': Lady Eastlake at the National Gallery
Sheldon, editor of the letters of Lady Eastlake, will consider Eastlake's place among the partisan circle of amateurs and professionals that collaborated in order to secure paintings for the nation in the nineteenth century.
All seminars 5pm, Mansfield Cooper 4.10
Everyone Welcome!
For more info, email robert.knifton@manchester.ac.uk
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.
'Manchester on display' Student Exhibitions- 2009
MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies New Student Exhibitions
MA students on the course 'Museums, Museology & Museographies' will be unveiling their exhibitions in the new Museology showcase in the foyer of the Mansfield Cooper Building this Autumn. Four groups have curated exhibitions on the theme of Manchester. Each exhibition will be up for a week from November to December 2009
20-27 November 2009: The Lost Stage
Livia Argentesi, Anna Bates,
Dot Baldwin, Sarah Bridges,
Emily Smeaton, & Alice Roberts
27 Nov- 4 Dec 2009: The Multi-Story City
Dan Feeney, Erika Kvam, Claire Dooley
Catherine Jackman, Charlotte Skelton,
Eleanor Ridley, & Hannah Manson
4-11 December 2009: Unveiling Voices 20 Perspectives of Manchester
Jennifer Dean, Shane Smith,
Michele Toolson, Lizzie Walley
& Hannah White
11-18 December 2009: Your Manchester
Hannah Lawson, Kayleigh Carr,
Catherine Downey, Demetra Louvrou,
Cordelia Mackay, & Alex Patterson
Do come and enjoy the shows!
Join the discussion on the AGMS Flickr page and Blog
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.
