Museums and Communities

Viv Golding is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her most recent publication is Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity Race and Power and she is currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects 'Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other' Cultures Within Translating Cultures' and 'Mapping Faith and Place in Leicester', and a Daiwa project 'Museum Literacy'. Wayne Modest is currently Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Previously he has been Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of Jamaica. Recent publications include 'Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary' in Laurajane Smith et al. (ed) Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.

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Introduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK

Part One: Community Matters?

Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK

The City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USA

Negotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USA

Learning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UK

Community Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UK

Co-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands

Part Two: Sharing Authority?

Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UK

Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha

'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia

One Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UK

A Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway

Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences?

Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK

Museums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA

Community Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, Australia

Interpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New Zealand

Testimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia

Afterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the Editors

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