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"Placing" Europe in the Museum
Whitehead, Christopher, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley and Katherine Lloyd. 2013. "Placing" Europe in the Museum: People(s), Places, Identities. Milan: Politecnico di Milano.
The book represents the proceedings of the international conference "Placing" Europe in the Museum: People(s), Places, Identities, held at Newcastle University in September 2012. This was the first in a series of events intended to complement and inform research within the context of the MeLa Project. The papers relate to Research Field 01, which focuses on Museums and Identity in History and today, and will develop policy-relevant arguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations for questions of contemporary European identities and notions of citizenship. The volume includes contributions of: Christopher Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley, Katherine Lloyd, Tomasz Maślanka, Michal Luczewski, Christine Cadot, Roxana Adina Huma, Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Barış Ülker, Kylea Little, Francesca Lanz, Michelle More, Sonja Kmec.
"Placing" Europe in the Museum
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MeLa Newsletter #06
The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project outcomes, events and publications.
Don't miss in this issue: the introduction of the new MeLa Books, the report from the latest MeLa Conferences, an insight on the MeLa RF04 Exhibition, the presentation of the EUBORDERSCAPES Project, and the dissemination of the final outcomes of the EUNAMUS Project.
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MeLa Newsletter #05
The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project, the latest publications and the forthcoming events.
Don't miss in this issue: the presentation of the new MeLa Books, ensued within the Research Fields 01, 02, 03 and 05; ‘Remarks on "Placing" Europe in the Museum’: a report from the first MeLa International Conference, by Chris Whitehead; a presentation of ‘The Conclusion of the EuroMed2012 Conference under the EU Cypriot Presidency'; an introduction to the project 'Brera: un'altra storia', by Silvia Mascheroni; an overview about the exhibitions and the seminars promoted in cooperation with the MeLa researchers within the [S]oggetti Migranti project; MeLa forthcoming events.
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Placing Migration in European Museums
Whitehead, Christopher, Susannah Eckersley, and Rhiannon Mason. 2012. Placing Migration in European Museums: Theoretical, Contextual and Methodological Foundations. Milan: Politecnico di Milano DPA.
How might we understand and study museum representations pertaining to place, identity and migration in contemporary Europe? This question is addressed in this book, which is the first of a series produced by researchers at Newcastle University in the context of the EC-funded project ‘European Museums in an Age of Migrations’ (MeLa). The book sets out the theoretical and methodological premises for Research Field 1 of the MeLa Project. This Research Field focuses on Museums and Identity in History and today, and will develop policy-relevant arguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations for questions of contemporary European identities and notions of citizenship.
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Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices
Ferrara, Beatrice, ed. 2012. Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices. Milan: Politecnico di Milano DPA.
The intention of the contributions in this volume is to explore the parameters and paradigms of the contemporary museum—its spaces, practices and avowed purposes—in the light of the critical interrogations raised by postcolonial criticism and analyses. How are we to re-think museum studies, exhibitionary practices and archiving procedures within the radical revaluation of Occidental modernity? Such an investigation witnesses the latter’s historical and cultural premises being exposed to questions and possibilities it has rarely authorized. When the unsung bodies, cultures and histories of colonialism and Empire return to ghost the contemporary world—this, too, is “globalization”—then the manner of picturing and framing the memories of that past and present becomes a pressing and contested matter. Are we merely to adjust and enlarge an inherited frame of understanding to incorporate this critical encounter, or is something more required?
With contributions by: a.titolo, Danilo Capasso, Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, Alessandra De Angelis, Beatrice Ferrara, Giulia Grechi, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona, Michaela Quadraro, and Federica Timeto.
Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices
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European Crossroads
Innocenti, Perla, ed. 2012. European Crossroads: Museums, Cultural Dialogue and Interdisciplinary Networks in a Transnational Perspective. Milan: Politecnico di Milano DPA.
This volume collects a series of essays and interviews exploring diverse European perspectives on interdisciplinary collaborations between cultural institutions. International scholars and practitioners discuss cross-domain partnerships, cultural identity and cultural dialogue, heritage for the arts and sciences, European narratives, migration and mobility, and describe real-life case studies in museums, libraries, foundations, associations and online portals.
With contributions by and interviews with: Joan Abella, Agnes Arquez Roth, Janine Burger, Mela Davila, Sergio Dogliani, Helene du Mazaubrun, Annette Friberg, Fabienne Galangau, Michel Guiraud, Els Jacob, Jean Patrick Leduc, Pompeo Martelli, Perla Innocenti, Laurence Isnard, Ellen McAdam, Jan Molendijk, Antonio Perna, Anne Solene Rolland, Sreten Ugričić, and Katherine Watson.
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Representing Museum Technologies
Allen, Jamie, and Eleonora Lupo, eds. 2012. Representing Museum Technologies. Milan: Politecnico di Milano DPA.
The use of technologies in the context of museums and cultural institutions is a topic that helps bring a focus to the myriad of representational, interactive and informational forms these cultural milieux allow. Combined with developments in the public take-up of mobile technologies and networked media and communications, technologies used in representing and producing culture cause us to fundamentally re-imagine and reinvent the role of cultural institutions in a technological society. This case study source book is a snapshot, a distillation of contemporary practice by museums and cultural institutions, along with commentary, critique and best practice reflections by interdisciplinary-researchers from the MeLa project.
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Museum Policies in Europe 1990 – 2010: Negotiating Professional and Political Utopia
Eilertsen, Lill, and Arne Bugge Amundsen (eds.). 2012. Museum Policies in Europe 1990 – 2010: Negotiating Professional and Political Utopia. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.
This EuNaMus report studies how nations develop policy in order to deploy national museums in the redefinition of the national vision. Considering museums as utopian institutions, it focusses on the negotiations between politicians and museum professionals in Europe from 1990-2010.
This publication is the third in a series of open access reports from EuNaMus.
Original source: Linköping University Electronic Press
Museum Policies in Europe 1990 – 2010: Negotiating Professional and Political Utopia
Eilertsen Lill, Bugge Amundsen Arne
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Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums: Conference Proceedings fr
Poulot, Dominique, Felicity Bodenstein, and José María Lanzarote Guiral (eds.). 2012. Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums: Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Paris 28 June – 1 July & 25–26 November 2011. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.
This collection of conference papers examines the different narratives that museums have, since the beginning of the nineteenth century and up until the present day, developed as monuments to and of national histories. The aim has been to identify how narratives and their impact might have changed over time and more particularly how this can contribute to our understanding of how they might be changing today.
This publication is the fourth in a series of open access reports from EuNaMus.
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Voices from the Museum: Survey Research in Europe's National Museums
Bounia, Alexandra, Alexandra Nikiforidou, Niki Nikonanou, and Albert Dicran Matossian (eds.). 2012. Voices from the Museum: Survey Research in Europe's National Museums. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.
This report presents visitor perspectives on what it means to be a national museum and relations between national museums and identities.
This publication is the fifth in a series of open access reports from EuNaMus.
Original source: Linköping University Electronic Press
Voices from the Museum: Survey Research in Europe's National Museums
Bounia Alexandra, Nikiforidou Alexandra, Nikonanou Niki, Matossian Albert Dicran
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MeLa RF1 International Conference_Abstracts
The document collects the abstracts of the papers presented during the first MeLa International Conference, held in Newcastle on the 3-4th Semptember 2012.
Conference Title: ‘Placing’ Europe in the Museum:
people(s), places, identities.
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International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies,
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Research Field 03 International Conference - Conference Program and Abstracts
The document collects the abstracts of the papers presented during the first MeLa International Conference, that will be held in Glasgow on the 3-4th December 2012. Conference Title: ‘Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions.” Organized by the Organised by HoA - School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow as part of EC-funded FP7 project European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLA).
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MeLa* 2012 Calendar
The MeLa* Project is organizing a series of events aimed at deppening the knowledge inthe Project Reserach Fields. Check the calendar below recording the fortcoming scheduled events and find out more on each Research Field webpage and blog.
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The Development of European Identity/Identities
The European Commission recently published the Policy Review reporting the main findings ensued from the conference on “European Identity/Identities”, organized by the EC in Brussels in February 2012. "The Development of a European Identity/European Identities: Unfinished Business", authored by Prof. Robert Miller from Queen’s University, draws on a set of EU-funded research projects under FP6 and FP7 that deal(t) with questions related to identity in Europe.
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Museums in an Age of Migrations
Basso Peressut, Luca, and Clelia Pozzi, eds. 2012. Museums in an Age of Migrations. Milan: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Progettazione dell'Architettura.
This volume collects a series of essays that offer a starting point for the MeLa Project, reflecting on the role of museums and heritage in relation to the contemporary global and multicultural world. International scholars and researchers interrogate themselves on issues of history, memory, identity and citizenship, and explore their effects on the organization, functioning, communication strategies, exhibition design and architecture of museums.
With contributions by: Jamie Allen, Kirsti Andersen, Peter Aronsson, Luca Basso Peressut, Iain Chambers, Mela Dávila Freire, Gordon J. Fyfe, David Gauthier, Perla Innocenti, Francesca Lanz, Rhiannon Mason, Mark Nash, Massimo Negri, Giovanni Pinna, Gennaro Postiglione, Sreten Ugričić, Michel Van Praët, and Chris Whitehead.
Museums in an Age of Migrations
Luca Basso Peressut, Clelia Pozzi
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MeLa Newsletter #04
The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications, and briefly introducing the nine Project Partners. Don't miss in this issue: ‘Insights from Copenhagen’: a report on the General Meeting of the MeLa Partners in Copenhagen through the words of some of the scholars and museum operators who actively participated to the Seminar; ‘Reports from the MeLa Brainstorming Events’: a presentation of the Research Fields 01, 02 and 03 Workshops by Chris Whitehead, Perla Innocenti and Mariangela Orabona; ‘Beyond Modernity. Do Ethnographic Museums Need Ethnography?’: an insight on the RIME conference by Giulia Grechi; MeLa forthcoming events.
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Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online
Simon Knell et al., eds. 2012. Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.
Eunamus second open access report is now online. This report presents key findings of research undertaken by the EuNaMus consortium in its attempts to understand the ‘museology of Europe’. This notion is used here to describe activities which are peculiar to museums and which result from the manner in which museums assemble and deploy objects. This research investigated the ways in which captial cities, national art museums, online museum-like spaces, and national, regional and local museums produce opportunities for connecting identities.
Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online
Simon Knell, Bodil Axelsson, Lill Eilertsen, Eleni Myrivili, Ilaria Porciani, Andrew Sawyer and Sheila Watson
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RF01 Brainstorming: Museums, Migrations and Identities
The document illustrates the research advancement produced within the Research Field 01, presented during the RF01 Brainstorming that was held at the University of Newcastle on 20th April 2012.
RF01 Brainstorming: Museums, Migrations and Identities
Chris Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley
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MeLa Newsletter #03
The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications, and briefly introducing the nine Project Partners.
Don't miss in this issue:
'The Postnational Museum': an insight from a keynote presentation;
'Questioning the Development of European Identity/Identities': a report from the European Commission Conference;
'The First MeLa Brainstorming': an introduction to the Mela event in Naples;
'The Invention of the Savage': a personal view of the exhibition;
MeLa forthcoming events.
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MeLa* 2012 Calendar
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