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Comment by Suzy on November 11, 2009 at 8:29am

New...Student Category for the AAM Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee and it will soon be accepting submissions for the 2010 MUSE Awards. 

See the categories and criteria page for more information. http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/criteria.html

We will accept online applications from museums and producers on the AAM Media and Technology Web site from Dec. 1, 2009 to Jan. 31, 2010. The cost is $30 per entry.

Visit http://www.mediaandtechnology.org to enter your project. If you have any questions, please contact us via muse@mediaandtechnology.org and join us on Facebook to keep updated on MUSE and M&T events http://www.facebook.com/pages/AAM-Media-Technology/35290555855?ref=ts

Comment by Amy Barnes on October 4, 2009 at 7:53am

Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones

A two-day international symposium for PhD students and early career researchers.

Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th December 2009.
University of Leicester, UK.

Join us at the new School of Museum Studies this December for the symposium Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones.

Museums are all about the material world; the display and preservation of works of art, their presentation and interpretation to audiences. Yet, it can be argued that it is the 'intangible' elements of objects, museums and their audiences which create meanings from the material world. Between the 'material' and the 'intangible' often a controversial, defined division is perceived. Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones intends to challenge this fixed division and explore a more fluid conceptual space, where the ‘material’ and the ‘intangible’ interweave.

We have devised an exciting programme of presentations and workshops, keynote speakers and artistic interventions, which engage with materiality and intangibility in inspiring and innovative ways.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Dr Kostas Arvanitis, University of Manchester.

A provisional programme shall be available shortly. Please refer to The Attic (http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com) for further details.

The events will be hosted by the research student community based at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, a leading internationally renowned centre for Museum Studies and teaching since 1966. The School was recently assessed as having the highest proportion of world-leading research in any subject in any UK university (RAE 2008).

Booking fee: £20 (includes lunch and refreshments and refreshments on both days).

Please see The Attic for more information and a downloadable/printable booking form.

Comment by Lynda Kelly on August 28, 2009 at 12:16am

Hope you've all read this post on entering our sector - New Kid on the Block - pretty humbling really!

Comment by Helen Velikans on July 28, 2009 at 6:27pm

Hi All,
I'm currently doing the post grad. diploma of museum studies through Deakin Uni. and really interested in joining this group. Hopefully many happy blogs to get over those sleepless nights!

Comment by Christine Castle on July 8, 2009 at 3:23am

July 7, 2009

What are you doing this summer? Share your museum education-related research, program evaluation or project development work with interested others around the globe.

To share their ongoing research and evaluation, just send an e-mail to mem@mccastle.com that includes:
- name of project
- research or evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented
- principal researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words/labels to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please].

To review recent research listings, read the MEM blog, "FORUM: Research and Resources in Museum Education" at http://forum.mccastle.com/.

All listings are free of charge and displayed in their language of origin. Deadline for the July MEM is Friday, July 17.

FYI, listings for June 2009 MEM included:
- SILVER - Semantic Interactive Learning Visualisation Environment Research (UK)
- Do you remember? Memories as experiences and Heritage Learning (Denmark)
A complimentary copy of this June issue is available upon request.

Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss your research. I look forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,
Chris

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
mem@mccastle.com
For more information about Museum Education Monitor or to subscribe see
http://www.mccastle.com

Comment by Huw Edwards on May 19, 2009 at 9:51pm

G'Day!



My name is Huw Edwards (huey for short!) and I completed my Public History (Museum studies course at Monash University last year). *sigh* I already miss the thrill of musuem and so happy to join your crew! I come from Melbourne and a travel buff naturally. At work people call me the walking Encyclopedia on anything History or cultural studies related!

My top 5 musuems

Imperial War Museum
British Musuem
Berlin Wall Musuem
Natural History Museum London
Florence Doumo (Anything in Florence!)

Do I class as initiated into your community? Please check out my photos of my Grand Tour in 2006