Sackler Centre for Arts Education, V&A
University of Leicester, department of Museum Studies

From the Margins to the Core? - An international conference exploring the shifting roles and increasing significance of diversity and equality in contemporary museum and heritage practice and policy. (Working title)

To be held at the Sackler Centre for arts education, V&A, 24, 25, 26 March 2010
Run jointly with University of Leicester’s Department of Museum Studies

The key aim of the conference is to review equality and diversity policy and practice over the last ten years in order to reaffirm the importance and centrality of this work and to inform future directions. We hope it will be an opportunity to showcase some of the energy and creativity of this work both in the UK and abroad but also to share complexities, difficulties encountered and lessons learnt.

It will bring together people who work as curators, educators, policy makers, managers, academics, researchers, artists, students and community heritage specialists as well as youth workers and teachers and others who work with the sector. The organisations represented may have an international, national or regional remit; operate within a local community or have a specific diversity agenda, thus encouraging dialogue between those working within different contexts. Alongside the conference will be other activities – films, performances, interactive and contemporary programmes and opportunities to network and socialise.

We invite contributions which, in addressing the questions below, help various stakeholders explore successful strategies for incorporating diversity in what they do. We welcome contributions which offer a serious critique of policy and practice; which help us to take stock and thereby re-envisage the future but, at the same time, take account of the different contexts in which we operate.

Call for Papers and Expressions of Interst form at: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/profdev/sackler.html

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