The research project “Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe (CHAPTER): The Role of Museums in a Digital ‘Post-Truth’ European Society” (funded by the VolkswagenStiftung), is recruiting three fully-funded research positions for PhD students (4 years). We are looking forward to applications from excellent candidates with a background in cultural/media/digital anthropology, museum & heritage studies or comparable disciplines. Please click here for further information.
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you can read about Colin Sterling‘s After Experience of Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum, learn more about a workshop on taxidermy (Chiara Garbellotto and Debbie Onuoha), and delve into some Berlin street ecologies (Diana Young).
Read CARMAH's contributions to the new publication on museum anthropology by Larissa Förster & Iris Edenheiser
The newly released book ‘Museumsethnologie – Eine Einführung. Theorien – Debatten – Praktiken‘ contains an essay by Larissa Förster as well as a conversation with Sharon Macdonald. As the first of its kind, the publication gives a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practices pertaining to ethnographic collections and museums in German-speaking contexts.
New publication 'We Disperse to Berlin' by Nazlı Cabadağ
'Now, to the Future' conference POSTPONED - more info will follow soon
The POSTPONED conference ‘Now, to the Future. Transformations in Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century’ will include inputs from James Clifford, Haidy Geismar, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Henrietta Lidchi, Wayne Modest, Irene Stengs and others TBC.
New publication: 'The Anthropologist as Curator'
The book chapter ‘The Recursivity of the Curatorial’, co-authored by
Sharon Macdonald and Jonas Tinius, has just been published in the edited
collection ‘The Anthropologist as Curator’ by Roger Sansi (Bloomsbury).
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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