Curating and Public Scholarship Lab
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Paid, remote, decolonial curatorial residencies in UK museums! Three curatorial researchers will be awarded bursaries of 5,000 each, to support c.25 days of co...llections-based research undertaken flexibly on a part-time basis over a nine-month period through 2021. The virtual residencies will interrogate specific aspects of the three collections’ practices, policies, histories, holdings and objects through critical and creative strategies that engage decolonial thinking/doing and address questions of decolonisation. The network/residency programme will culminate in an online digital display and related e-publication. See more

Announcing the Monuments, Markers and Memory 2021 Symposium Series Follow the series here: Monuments, Markers, and Memory This four-part series unites artists, ...academics, activists, politicians, organizations, institutions,and local communities to address public memory, heritage and memorialization and promote historical justice, social equity and legislative action. All events free online via ZOOM and FACEBOOK LIVE See here for details and registration links: https://www.usf.edu//monuments-markers-and-memory-2021-sym Supported by Florida Humanities, University of South Florida Research & Innovation, Florida Public Archaeology Network - West Central Region, USF Contemporary Art Museum, The Ringling, New College Public Archaeology Lab

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What would a truth and reconciliation commission look like in the USA? What can we learn from the struggle to recognize the plight of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada? Register for the discussion! Nov 12th, 10:00 a.m. EST.

[La version française suivra] During the past few months, CaPSL has co-organized Curating during COVID-19, a series of digital incubator sessions to discuss curatorial projects, research, and our experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we adjust our programming to new virtual realities, we have examined themes such as self care as advocacy, the ethics of care, community engagement, and the power of public response through curatorial strategies. A few of our next posts w...ill explore these themes and provide a look into our process. This project brings together several groups including Beyond Museum Walls, Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group, the Decolonial Perspectives and Practises Hub, and Inuit Futures. Ces derniers mois, CaPSL a co-organisé Curating during COVID-19, une série de rencontres virtuelles afin de réfléchir et d’échanger autour de projets curatoriaux, de la recherche et de nos expériences pendant la pandémie de la COVID-19. Alors que nous ajustons notre programmation à ces nouvelles réalités virtuelles, nous avons examiné des sujets tels que prendre soin de soi comme une revendication, l’éthique du care, l’engagement avec la communauté et le pouvoir de la réaction du public à travers les stratégies curatoriales. Certaines de nos prochaines publications exploreront ces thèmes et vous permettront d’entrevoir notre processus de travail. Ce projet rassemble plusieurs groupes de recherche Beyond Museum Walls, Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group, the Decolonial Perspectives and Practises Hub, and Inuit Futures.

Register for this exciting upcoming talk, November 17th: thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw Reparative Aesthetics: The Museum’s Incarceration o...f Indigenous Life Across the globe, museums filled with glass and plexiglass vitrines display collections of Indigenous belongings. For Indigenous people, experiencing these systems of display and storage are often traumatic because of the ways in which they maintain the separation of kinship at the heart of settler colonialism. If the museum is a carceral space, how then might we define repatriation in relation to practices of re-entry and kinship reconnection? In what ways might prison abolition apply to the museum?

Scholars and practitioners talk about their work documenting experiences of people living with violence, conflict, and displacement. How do scholarly research and activism overlap in stories of displacement? How do displaced peoples establish archives when they are on the move?