This page is for members of the Museums and Memory working group
Co-Chairs: Amy Sodaro , Stephan Jaeger and Alexandra Pucciarelli
What role does the contemporary museum play in shaping collective and cultural memories? The concept of the ‘museum’ is transforming with decolonizing campaigns, the participatory museum manifesto, new museology, media technologies expanding the museum beyond its physical walls, and other recent developments. These new approaches challenge traditional ideas of the museum, established in the nineteenth century, particularly in regards to such institutions’ relationships to narrative, power, temporality, spatiality, materiality, and history and memory. Today, visitors can be empowered as co-curators, and museums exist in online-only formats or can be embedded within the sites to which they refer with the use of digital mapping software. Museum professionals are becoming more sensitive to the colonial histories inherent to normative practices and some are experimenting with radical techniques to dismantle these. Furthermore, whereas history used to be the dominant organizing trope in museums, today memory often supplants history as the framework through which museums address and represent the past.
The MSA Museums and Memory Working Group welcomes members interested in the relationship between the two titular fields. We encourage academics, curators, archivists, technologists, activists and other stakeholders working in relevant areas to join the group. We hope that it will develop to not only provide fruitful intellectual discussion but to create a productive space across museum practice, academia and activism through which we can create meaningful collaborations that break down perceived boundaries between theory and practice, and that might impact the transnational development of museums to produce and circulate memory.
To join the working group, please complete the form available here: https://forms.gle/ko6GBj6t1yALPY9U9
Co-Chairs:
Amy Sodaro, Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York
Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba, Canada
Alexandra Pucciarelli
This mailing list aims to facilitate scholarly exchange on theoretical and methodological issues as well as to share among its participants information on relevant publications, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities among. Besides organizing themed panels at the annual MSA conferences, the network aims to organize regular network meetings and to facilitate joint conferences/workshops and publications whenever possible. We therefore strongly invite participants of the working group to share with colleagues thoughts and relevant information via this platform.
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Welcome to the MSA forum. This is a discussion forum specifically for topics of concern to members of the Memory Studies Association. We encourage you to debate scholarly research, current events relevant to the field, and issues concerning the profession. Please note that these posts may not be anonymous. Please refrain from discussing topics outside of memory studies. This discussion forum will be monitored and anyone using derogatory or hurtful language, or engaging racist, sexist, or otherwise hateful discourse, will be barred from further use. We also do not tolerate posts with a commercial purpose, though the announcements of publications in the field are fine. Should you notice any post that violates these principles, please report them to info@memorystudiesassociation.org
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