[H-verkko] CFP: Exhibitions as sites of cultural diversity: foreignness

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Agricolan Artikkelipyyntötietokantaan
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on tullut seuraava ilmoitus:

Exhibitions as sites of cultural diversity: foreignness

Exhibitions as sites of cultural diversity: foreignness

Turku 18.–19.11.2010

The multiculturalism network of the University of Turku (MCnet) and
the department of general history will arrange a two-day seminar on
exhibitions as sites of cultural diversity. Exhibitions, whether
temporal or permanent, such as museum displays, have been a crucial
medium during the formation of modern mass societies and
globalization. These highly popular and newsworthy events have been
the nexus of commerce, science, art, politics, education and
entertainment. They have been sites for producing conceptions of the
world and for negotiation between “ours” and “theirs”.

The first seminar of the series will contribute to the debate on
multiculturalism, cultural encounters and otherness by launching and
developing the concept of “foreignness”. Foreignness is seen as an
essentially imagined quality, something which is considered to be
related to that which is abroad. The seminars will study the
dichotomy between foreign and indigenous as a cultural construction.
The seminars deal with the questions of foreignness both in the
perspective of Nordic and inter-European relations as well as between
the Nordic countries and the non-Western world.

The keynote lecturers are prof. Kerstin Smeds and adjunct professor
Anders Ekström. Professor Smeds (Museum Studies, Department of
Culture and Media, University of Umeå) is a specialist on museums and
material culture. She has published e.g. “Helsingfors–Paris. Finland
på världsutställningarna 1851–1900”. Adjunct professor Ekström
(Research Leader at History of Science and Technology, KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm) has published widely on the
history of exhibitions and media and is currently leading the
research project “Publics on display: A cultural history of audiences
and publics, 1866–1930”.

The seminar aims at bringing together researchers and doctoral
students working at universities, museums and other cultural
institutions. Participation of researchers of various disciplines is
encouraged, including for example, history, ethnology, anthropology,
sociology, museum studies, cultural and art studies.

The keynote lectures will be in English whilst some sessions will be
in Finnish. Abstracts (half a page) should be sent by Friday 10
September to Leila Koivunen (leikoi at utu.fi) or Taina Syrjämaa
(taisyr at utu.fi). Organizers will make the division into sessions on
the basis of the abstracts.

Contact information:

Professor Taina Syrjämaa, taisyr at utu.fi
Adjunct professor Leila Koivunen, leikoi at utu.fi 

General History
20014 University of Turku


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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Taina Syrjämaa <taisyr at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 11.09.2010
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