Hello conference goers!
Please see below for the outline of the CMA Museum Anthropology Futures
Conference, May 25-27. We will be
sending a more detailed program out in the near future.
Questions? museumfutures2017@gmail.com
REGISTRATION will be open in one week.
Note: Coffee and Conversation times are
also great opportunities to check out posters, popup exhibits, and artist
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s mural in progress.
THURSDAY May 25, 2017
2-5pm Register & visit the Popup Exhibits and Posters! Presenters will be available to discuss their
work.
2-5pm Workshop:
Curatorial Dreaming with Shelley Butler (limited to 8, sign up info to come)
4-6pm Pre-circulated Papers Sessions are closed sessions
Museums
and Indigenous Health and Heritage in N. America (Isaac, Kramer, Krmpotich, McChesney,
Shannon)
Object-Centered
Narratives (Balaswaminthan,
Brown, Clements, Matthews)
Engaged
and Collaborative Research (Kreps, Patterson, Robertson, Saul)
5-615pm Welcome
& Roundtable: Student
Perspectives on Museum Anthropology Futures (Kamph)
630-8pm Join
us for "Libation Anthropology: a Participant Observation
Approach"— as we head into town and mix with the locals in lively
social atmospheres! (more info to come in the conference program)
FRIDAY May 26, 2017
830-9am
Coffee and Conversation – and
continuing Registration
9-930am Opening Remarks
930-1045am Roundtable:
Artist Dialogues with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Spring
Hurlbut (Duclos)
1045-1115am
Coffee and Conversation, started with a
PechaKucha-style food for thought! (Romanek)
1115-1230pm Roundtable:
Challenging the Supremacy of Objects in
the Anthropocene (Economopoulos)
Roundtable: Hearts of our People: A discussion on collaboration, theories,
practices and insights for an upcoming Native Women's Art exhibition (Yohe)
1230-145pm LUNCH
with themed tables (including Varutti, Patterson)
200-315pm Roundtable:
Museum Histories for Museum Futures:
Legacies of Museum Anthropology, 1945-1980 (Lacey)
315-345pm Coffee and Conversation, started with a
PechaKucha-style food for thought! (Westerman)
345-500pm Breakout Sessions
Problem
Solving– Using Museum Collections in
Teaching Anthropology: Making it Happen (Greene)
Workshop– Help shape Guidelines for Collaboration, museums working with
Indigenous communities (Lamar)
PechaKucha-style–Interrogating Digital/Collaboration (Galvin, Recollet, Bernstein,
Gowlland moderator)
500-530pm Break
530-630pm Keynote
Speaker: Wayne Modest
630-800pm Reception
SATURDAY May 27, 2017
845-915am Coffee and Conversation
915-930am Morning
Provocation
930-1045am Roundtable:
The Curatorial Legacy of the Expo ‘67
Indians of Canada Pavilion and the Future of Indigenous Museum Practice
(Igloliorte)
1045-1115am Coffee and Conversation, started with a
PechaKucha-style food for thought! (LeGrande)
1115-1230pm Roundtable:
Specimen, Object, Data: Transforming Collections
Across Disciplines (Van Allen)
Roundtable: The Challenges of Re-discovering and Re-presenting Hidden Indigenous
Collections (Bruchac)
1230-145pm LUNCH
with Problem Solving Session: How can museums be more responsive to
current events? (DeLair)
200-315pm Roundtable:
Slow Museology for Difficult Histories:
Relationship Advice for Scholars, Artists, Educators, and Curators Looking for
Commitment (Lehrer)
315-345pm Coffee and Conversation, started with a
PechaKucha-style food for thought! (Podbielska)
345-500pm Breakout
Sessions
Workshop– Mobilizing Museum Anthropology in the Political Moment— a workshop with
the Museum Anthropology journal editor (McChesney)
Roundtable– New
technologies, better relationships? People, objects, and 3D museology
(Roth)
Problem Solving– Engaging students and Activating Collections (Rowley)
500-515pm Break
515-600pm Closing
Remarks
Posters and Pop Up Exhibits
Posters and Pop Up Exhibits will
be displayed throughout the conference – presenters will have dedicated time to
be available and discuss their work on Thursday, 2-5pm.
Chipangura
Duhé
Knight
LeGallais
Mbewe
Peraic
Please note, Erica Lehrer
will be in touch with you to coordinate your display
SUNDAY May 28, 2017
Museum Day in Montreal —a day to
explore the city and its museums!
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