[H-verkko] Turku, Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity

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Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity
Turku 18.11.2010 klo 10:15 - 18.11.2010 klo 17:00

Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity – Foreignness &
Museoaiheisen tutkimuksen forum, 2. seminaari


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 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.

Welcome!


Thursday 18 November 2010
University of Turku, Sirkkala campus, Kaivokatu 12

Programme

10.15-10.25 Opening, Aikala, Historicum
10.25-11.15 Session 1 (chair Taina Syrjämaa)
• Marie-Sofie Lundström: 'Even a negro should have the nose in its
right place.' The reception of the paintor Hugo Backmansson’s
Northern African themes in Finnish art exhibitions during the first
half of the twentieth century
• Laura Boxberg: Constructing the Nordic collaboration. The 1962
Venice Biennale and the question of Finnishness

11.15-12.15 lunch

12.15-13.30 Keynote lecture, Janus lecture hall
• Anders Ekström (Dr., Research Leader, History of Science and
Technology, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH –
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm): 
Exhibiting disasters: Transnational imaginaries in early twentieth
century popular visual culture

13.30-14.00 coffee

14.00-15.10 Session 2 (chair Marie-Sofie Lundström) Aikala,
Historicum
• Hilde Nielssen & Sigrid Lien: Stories told through images:
Photography as an entrance to the colonial past
• Leila Koivunen: Exemplary foreignness. Founding of the Finnish
Museum of Arts and Crafts with Oriental flavours

15.10-15.30 break

15.30-17.15 Session 3 (chair Leila Koivunen) Aikala, Historicum
• Taina Syrjämaa: Hues of foreignness. Visitors’ descriptions of a
Finnish exhibition
• Marja-Terttu Kivirinta: Foreign (Finnish) manifestation and the
French (art) scene in 1900 and in 1908
• Anniina Lehtokari: Finnish Museum with foreign fixtures? Creating
the National Museum of Finland in the beginning of the 20th century
• Nika Potinkara: The self and the other: Representations of
ethnicity in Sámi museums.



Museoaiheisen tutkimuksen forum, 2. seminaari

Perjantai 19.11.2010 klo 10.00-17.00
Turun yliopisto, Sirkkalan kampus, Kaivokatu 12

Ohjelma

10.00-11.15 Forumin avaus, Janus-sali
Tutkimusaiheiden esittely: 1. kokonaisuus
• Maija Koskinen: Taiteilijoiden talo – Helsingin Taidehalli
suomalaisen taidekentän rakentajana
• Mari Lehtosalo: KOMEA-hanke (Kotiseutumme mennyt aika)
• Magdalena Laine-Zamojska: Suomalaisten museoiden verkkonäyttelyt ja
kulttuurin monimuotoisuus. ViMuseo.fi hanke.

11.15-12.15 lounas (omakustanteinen)

12.15-13.30 Keynote lecture, Janus lecture hall
• Hilde Nielssen (Dr., Researcher, The Department of Linguistic,
Literary and Aesthetic studies, University of Bergen):
 From Norway to the Ends of the World. Missionary contributions to
Norwegian images of “self” and “other”

13.30-14.00 kahvi (omakustanteinen) ja siirtyminen Porthan-salille,
Henrikinkatu 2

14.15-15.15 Tutkimusaiheiden esittely: 2. kokonaisuus, Porthan-sali
• Hanne Selkokari: Antiikkikauppias Henryk Bukowski, Stockholm
• Anna Jantunen: Theodor Schvindtin suomalainen museokokoelma
Pietarissa
• Sirkku Pihlman: Museopuutarhaprosessit

15.15-15.30 tauko

15.30-16.30 Tutkimusaiheiden esittely: 3. kokonaisuus, Porthan-sali

• Marja-Liisa Rönkkö: Näyttely metodina/teoksena
• Outi Korhonen: Babel-pajat: kieliryhmien kohtaamisia Helsingin
taidemuseossa
• Ari Häyrinen: Anarkistisen tiedonhallinnan kautta innostuneisuuden
mahdollistamiseen

16.30-17.00 Forumin jatkosuunnitelmat



Ilmoituksen lähetti:
 Taina Syrjämaa <taisyr at utu.fi> 
18.10.2010 10:47

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