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ICME/2011/Banz Monastery 

Banz Monastery at Bad Staffelstein (Upper Franconia),
Germany 

2-5 October, 2011

 

Dear Colleagues, 

 

We invite you to attend the annual ICME conference on 2-5
October, 2011, at the Banz Monastery at Bad Staffelstein (Upper Franconia),
Germany.  This year's conference is
organized in collaboration with the University of Bamberg/Department of
European Ethnology.  Final details of the
ICME conference including registration forms, registration fee information,
hotels, and other details on the ICME web site - http://icme.icom.museum.

 

PLEASE NOTE that HOTEL REGISTRATION at the Banz Monastery
has been extended until 31 August 2011.

 

As usual both a short pre-conference tour (October 1-2) in
Bamberg - World Heritage City - have been organized as well as the usual ICME
post conference tour (October 5-8).

 

Conference theme:

Dissolving boundaries. Museological approaches to national,
social and cultural issues, from the point of view of ethnographic
museums.  Borders, boundaries, exclusion,
delimitation or the dissolution of boundaries as a result of geographical,
political, social and cultural parameters in long-term perspectives are not
static.  They are linked to a steady
influence of different forces. Such processes take place quietly without
conflict or they end in graduated collisions.

 

Borders, boundaries and dissolution are not limited to the
grand level of nations or levels of policy planning systems.  They also concern the social and cultural
constitution of formal and informal groups. 
Terms like “equal" and "different" are often determined
by everyday life experiences.  Religious
and ethnic identity constructions as well as comprehensive examples of
migration, gender or age-specific distinctions present boundaries expressed by
exclusions which need to be overcome. The variety of borders and their
delimitation contribute towards political and social life. 

 

 

ICME (the International Committee for Museums of
Ethnography) is an international committee of the International Council of
Museums (ICOM) devoted to ethnography (ethnology, anthropology, folk) museums
focusing on local, national and international cultures.  ICME is concerned with the challenges facing
ethnographic museums and collections in a changing world.



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