Past Conferences of Interest
Symposium Musée Quai Branly, Paris, June 17-18, 2008
Exhibiting Polynesia: past, present and future
This is a preliminary announcement for a symposium being held to coincide with the opening of the exhibition, Polynésie: arts et divinités 1760-1860, at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (16 June - 14 September 2008). *The symposium, which is jointly convened by the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the Département de la recherche et de l'enseignement at the Musée du Quai Branly, will take place on Tuesday-Wednesday 17-18 June 2008.
The principal aim is to bring together curators, researchers, academics and artists from the Pacific, Europe and America who have an interest in Polynesian art and material culture in common, and who are concerned with its presentation, re-presentation and representation. The focus will be on museum and exhibition displays, permanent and temporary, which involve Polynesian material from all periods, including the present. Although past and present exhibition-making will be considered in historical and cultural contexts, there will be an emphasis on the future, as a way of generating and enhancing collaboration and mutual understanding. Several senior scholars will contribute to the symposium, including Arapata Hakiwai, Adrienne Kaeppler, Noelle Kahanu and Pat Kirch, together with a number of representatives from Pacific museums and universities. The meeting is intended to be an active dialogue, with contributions from all symposium participants. If you wish to attend the symposium it will be necessary to register in advance, as places are limited. There will be no conference fee.
Further detailed information about the 2-day programme will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, please send expressions of interest to:
Lynne Humphreys
Sainsbury Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
0044 (0) 1603 593005
l.humphreys@uea.ac.uk
www.sru.uea.ac.uk
Oceanic Art Symposium, Port Vila, Vanuatu, May 6–8, 2008
Pacific Islands Museum Association (PIMA) is organizing the first "Oceanic Art Symposium" to be held in Port Vila (Vanuatu) May 6-8, 2008. Please see Announcements. For more information and registration form: www.culturepacific.org
Pacific Passages: East, West, and Center in the Pacific Basin, Friday, April 4, 2008
To see a schedule of the conference, please visit: http://pacificarts.org/
Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée: Les arts de la grande île d'Océanie, Mercredi 5 mars 2008 à 18h30
Conférence organisée par le Musée Barbier-Mueller, en partenariat avec le MEG
"Les frises abelam: du jardin à la maison cérémonielle, des ignames aux hommes", par Ludovic Coupaye, associé pour la recherche au Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (Norwich) et au CREDO (Marseille);
"Histoire de la collecte et des collections", par Christian Kaufmann, ancien conservateur du Département d'Océanie, Museum der Kulturen de Bâle;
"Arts de Nouvelle-Guinée: images et métaphores", par Philippe Peltier, conservateur en chef du patrimoine. Département d'Océanie et d'Asie du Sud-Est, Musée du quai Branly.
Avec Roberta Colombo Dougoud, conservatrice du Département Océanie au MEG, modératrice.
Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
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