At this year’s Social History Curators Group Conference, ‘The Future of Social History: Who are we curating for?’, Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim will present their research on Heritage Futures on 18 July at Edinburgh’s City Art Center.
New book by Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald out now
‘Refugees Welcome? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany’, the newly released book by Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald, examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. Find more info here.
'Profusion in Museums - A Report on Contemporary Collecting and Disposal' now available
‘Profusion in Museums – A Report on Contemporary Collecting and Disposal’ by Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan is now available! To read online or to get a printed copy, click here. Or, click here to download the PDF file directly. CARMAH wishes a good read!
Duane Jethro presenting on 'Experience, Positionality and Knowledge Production' at ARE Network Meeting 2019
At this year’s ARE Network Meeting, the two-day symposium ‘Decolonizing European Anthropology?’, Duane Jethro will participate in a roundtable on June 28.
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you can delve into some Berlin street ecologies (Diana Young); you’ll meet CARMAH halfway; and find first reactions on the ‘Restitution Report‘ (Margareta von Oswald).
Jonas Tinius publishes in the Galerie Wedding catalogue
After two years of fieldwork with the district gallery of Berlin-Wedding, Jonas Tinius has written up his notes for the catalogue on their successive two-year programmes. The book will be launched on 29 May in the gallery. “Fieldnotes”, in: Post-Otherness Wedding / Unsustainable Privileges. Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art Berlin, edited by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Bielefeld/New York: Kerber.
Alice von Bieberstein gives talk 'Ghoulish Objects, Charnel Grounds: on Death and Monstrosity'
At the inaugural symposium ‘Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality 2019’ at the University of Roehampton in London, Alice von Bieberstein will participate in the panel on ‘Objects’ on 1 July 2019.
New CARMAH Newsletter out now
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!
