Registration is now open for the workshop
(Mis-)Representing Cultures and Objects at the University of Stirling.
The workshop is one
of the concluding elements of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award entitled
Tibetan Collections in Scotland 1890-1930: using material culture to establish
a critical historiography of missionary and military intent. The project
examined the ways in which, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Tibetan
artefacts were collected and displayed in Scottish museums, particularly in the
Edinburgh museum (now National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh).
The Principal
Investigator was Dr Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling), with Dr
Henrietta Lidchi (National Museums Scotland), and Dr Michael Marten (University
of Stirling). The bulk of the research was carried by Inbal Livne, who will
shortly be awarded her PhD.
The workshop will
offer an opportunity to find out more about the CDA project, as well as
exploring some of the issues that arose from it, in particular examining ways
in which
(mis-)representations of cultures and objects are connected and
influence one another. We therefore welcome Tibet specialists, but also
scholars working in a wide variety of disciplinary and geographic fields who
can contribute something to the debate as it relates to the museum sector.
Speakers include:
Inbal Livne – Tibetan Collections in Scotland 1890-1930:
using material culture to establish a critical historiography of missionary and
military intent Timothy
Fitzgerald/Henrie Lidchi
Dr Diana Lange – Dundee and the World”: The Collection(s) of
Thomas Alexander Wise (1802-1889)
Lydia Hauth – Emic Perspectives: Community Participation
in Ethnographic Museums
Emma Martin – The Barmiak Lama came to explain the meaning
of those Tibetan curios which were concerned with religion’. How a colonial
officer’s lessons in Tibetan materialised.
Rachel Hand – ‘Offending Our Eyes’: The ethnographic
collections of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Dr Jennifer Way – Resembling the Collection: Vietnamese
Handicraft at the Smithsonian, ca 1962-
Dr Sabine
Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz - Dictionaries of
minority languages as ‘exhibits’ – From colonialism to the decolonisation of
knowledge
Dr Deborah Sutton – The Plastic Idea: the attributes of Hindu
Art in the twentieth century
Rebecca
Loder-Neuhold – “The only Africa museum
in the Mühlviertel…” Mission museums in German speaking countries
For registration
details please visit the website.
