Can I bring people's attention to the final CfP for the Museum will not Be Decolonised. Proposals due 29th February midnight GMT.

David Livingstone, British missionary and traveller, died at the end of May 1873 in present day Chipundu, Zambia. The subsequent transcontinental journey led by Jacob Wainwright and James Chuma to take his body to the coast to be returned to Britain became the stuff of legend and it captured the British imagination, cementing ideas of Livingstone as a martyr and Victorian hero. Importantly, this journey reinforced notions of Britain seeing itself as a global leader with a soft-power that could make people of other nations walk 1500 miles in 10 months to return a body to its home country. This “soft-power empire liberalism” not only manifested in how Britain saw itself but in how its museums were and are presented as being custodians of the histories and cultures of the world (Lewis, 2014).

This conference uses the stories of Wainwright, Chuma and the many other people who worked with Livingstone to push against the continuing influence of colonial, hegemonic and hierarchical notions of museums. It also presents the narrative of Livingstone and his well publicised acquisition of objects of Central and Southern African origin as a starting point to explore how we respond to cultural heritage today.

We welcome proposals which question if there will ever be a way to fairly, humanely and equitably hold collections of colonially collected objects and presentations that explore how autonomy for diaspora, lived-experience and source communities can be embedded into the display of objects held in British museums through the use of digital technologies. We also invite proposals which look at new ways to digitally create polysemiotic responses to objects and their representation that utilises digital technologies to work against the dehumanising and distancing effects of Western museum practice. We embrace creative works which analyse and critique contemporary museum spaces and explore how digital technologies can drive or instigate change.

Contact - https://www.dhi.ac.uk/blogs/legacy150/

Contributions may respond to (but are not limited to): 

    21st century museums

    Cultural heritage 

    Colonial collections in the 21st century museum

    “Decolonising” conversations, words versus practice 

    Digital heritage 

    Visual digital histories 

    Reinterpretation

    Understanding traumatic narratives in museal spaces

    Heritage technologies  

    Critical histories  

    (re)Presentation  

    Cultural heritage 

    Situated knowledge in object histories

    Digital collections research

    Collection management


Thank you

Kate

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