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13-14 March 2016, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Supported by a grant from the European Association for Jewish Studies
Confirmed speakers:
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (independent curator and researcher)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews)
Cilly Kugelman (Jewish Museum Berlin)
A two-day international symposium is to explore the critical debates about Jewish museologies in the light of
The conference will include panels on current museum developments in Germany, Central-Eastern Europe, Western Europe (continental), UK/Ireland. The meeting will include a workshop on current local/grassroots archival and heritage collecting and research, including community engagement.
In the wake of the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the first major museum of Jewish history in an East-Central European capital in over a century, this conference aims to reassess the diversity of Jewish museologies in post-WWII Europe, as well as in the context the UK/Ireland, as developments are taking place in Leeds, Manchester and elsewhere. These developments, decentralised as they are, raise questions about what Jewish museology should be and can be: a museology of celebration or commemoration? A history lesson or an encounter with art and aesthetics?
In addition, the conference will address specific issues relating to Jewish museums and Jewish history in museums in the UK and Ireland in a European context.
As debates on the musealisation of Jewish history / culture proliferate, this conference will engage international curators and scholars to address some of the following questions:
Please propose a topic and provide an abstract for a 20 minute paper by email to Eva Frojmovic at clsef@leeds.ac.uk
Deadline: 15 January 2016. Subject heading: Jewish Museologies.
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