15th–16th June 2018, Musée des Arts et Métiers The international conference was held at the Musée des Arts et Métiers. Across the two days, the conference was divided thematically between ‘The universalities of Western museums' and ‘Modern museum universalities', reflecting the project’s overarching aim of reassessing nineteenth-century museology from twenty-first century global perspectives. 15th … Continue reading INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT: ‘NOTIONS OF UNIVERSALITY IN UNIVERSAL MUSEUMS’
The second workshop of the 'Universal Histories and Universal Museums' research project was held on Wednesday 27th September at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. After a short welcome by André Delpuech, director of the Musée de l’Homme and research partner of the project, and an introduction to the project by Sandra Kemp, project principal … Continue reading Workshop report: ‘Comparative Museologies: Case studies from Asia’
Blog post by Sandra Kemp, V&A project Principal Investigator, on the AHRC/LABEX cross-project workshop on transnational interdisciplinary research. …Connections between the many become locally denser until at some point a threshold is reached and things begin to flow. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics 1, 2010, 157 Last week the AHRC/LABEX brought together researchers from its eight funded … Continue reading “Ideas in a different modality”: Interdisciplinarity and Transnationalism