2020 has been quite a year for us all! We hope that these words find you well, and that 2021 will be filled with joy, new ventures, and much light within and outside! We look forward to seeing you again at our digital CARMAH meetings. Hopefully, sooner or later in this new year, we will be able to host and attend offline events again.
'Heritage Futures' out now
The book ‘Heritage Futures. Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices‘, edited by Jennie Morgan and Sharon Macdonald (among others), is available! Please click here for further info.
'Across Anthropology' book available
Download the new open-access book by CARMAH fellows Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius with contributions by Sharon Macdonald, Arjun Appadurai, and many others here!
CARMAH Museum Lab is back in the winter semester 2020/2021!
The sessions are open to practitioners, students, researchers and those working at the intersection of theory and practice. Every other week, invited guests present their ongoing research which inspire fruitful discussions. Due to the global pandemic and heightened safety measures, all sessions of this winter semester’s CARMAH Museum Lab will be held via Zoom. Feel free to join, wherever you are located!
New book by Urmila Goel out now!
In the recently published book ‘Das Indernet. Eine rassismuskritische Internet-Ethnografie‘ (2020), Urmila Goel deals with ethnographic material on the Internet portal ‘Indernet,’ collected by the researcher over the past seventeen (!) years. Click here to find out more (in German).
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you can read about ‘Connecting Afro Futures’ at Berlin’s Kunstgewerbemuseum (Harriet Merrow, Christine Gerbich and Duane Jethro), participate in ‘Ethnographic Observations of Digital Museum Practices during the Covid-19 Crisis‘ (Sarah Ullrich and Katharina Geis), and learn why Statues Can’t Swim (Magdalena Buchczyk and Duane Jethro).
Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage - CARMAH Paper #1
CARMAH proudly presents the first collection of essays with an introduction by Sharon Macdonald. Named after the symposium ‘OTHERWISE. Rethinking Museums and Heritage‘ held on July 27th – 28th, 2017. It is an open-access publication and can be downloaded here. Enjoy!
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