ICME/2013/Rio de Janeiro (ICME Annual Conference 2013)
10-17 August, 2013
Applications are invited for three (e) ICME Fellows from individual members of ICME from developing nations or ICME youth members (under 35 years of age).
• Two (2) fellows will be drawn from applicants who are ICME members from outside of South America;
• One (1) fellow will be awarded to a South American museum ethnographer (ICOM membership required)
ICME Fellowships will be for up to the amount of 2000 euros. Funding will be used to pay for conference registration, accommodation, airfare and reasonable daily allowance in Brasil for participation in ICME/2013/Brasil, 10-17 August, 2013, with a view to offer opportunities for enriching the on-going research of candidates through global interaction with ICME members from different parts of the world. Candidates are expected to remain active in ICME.
Requirements
1) Non-South American applicants must have been an ICME member for a minimum of three years (continuous paid membership of ICOM for the years 2010, 2011, 2012).
2) All applicants shall be engaged actively in curatorial, education, research or developmental work in a museum.
3) ICME Fellows are required to contribute a reflective report about their conference experiences at ICME/2013/Brasil and how they will shape their future museum thinking, to be published in a future ICMENews.
Applications must reach the President and Treasurer, ICME by 31 April, 2013, along with the following:
1) A 200 word statement of the applicant's motivation for attending ICME/2013/Brasil and the benefits which he/she expects to derive from it,
2) A curriculum vitae indicating, name, age, citizenship, home address, institutional address, contact phone, fax, e-mail address, details of qualification, employment positions, research experience, and ICOM membership number.
3) Names and e-mail addresses of two eminent museum professionals, from whom references will be sought.
ICME Fellows shall be announced by 30 May, 2013. Awards will be given strictly on merit and subject to fulfillment of all conditions. ICME reserves the right for the selection of candidates and shall hold the right of publishing a conference report of the selected candidate.
Contact: Dr Annette B. Fromm, President, ICME
e-mail: annettefromm@hotmail.com
Postal Address: 3060 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
And
Dr Zvjezdana Antos, Treasurer, ICME
e-mail: zantos@emz.hr
Postal Address: Senior Curator, Ethnographic Museum,
Trg Mazuranica 14, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICME/2013/Brasil Annual Conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 10-17 August, 2013
ICME (the International Committee for Museums of Ethnography), an international committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), will hold its 2013 annual conference on 10-17 August, 2013, as part of the ICOM 23rd General Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
The theme for the ICOM Triennial is Museums (memory + creativity = social change) - which describes the general notion that museums wish and work to promote change. The mathematical equation inspiring the 23rd General Conference of the International Council of Museums suggests that this work arises from a composition between creative freshness and the memory constructed and entrusted to museums. It is memory activated by creativity in the museum environment reverberating in the society and promoting social change.
(see http://www.icomrio2013.org.br/en/conference-theme)
ICME/2013/Brasil invites papers addressing the following two themes:
1. Focus on Collecting: Contemporary Collecting and Reinterpreting (Older) Collections, a joint session with the ICOM International committees COMCOL and ICMAH, and
2. Curators, Collections, Collaboration:Towards a Global Ethics
Theme 1. Focus on Collecting: Contemporary Collecting for Reinterpreting (Older) Collections.
Museum collections have to be constantly interpreted and reinterpreted in order to extend knowledge about the collected objects. It is a long-accepted fact that each museum is defined by its collections, but a contemporary museum offers its visitors much more than the elements of the past. Museums from different disciplines encounter questions of how to give new meaning to objects in interaction with a multicultural community. We ask how can associations between old collections be made with recent society with the help of contemporary collecting?
Some museums have successfully opening a dialogue with their communities or their representatives by relating them to the objects in museum collections. Members of a community have helped to interpret the objects from museum collections, for example, recent temporary exhibitions at the Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg. A museum may be a form, but it is always determined by how it communication with objects, by the messages it sends. The new ethnographic museum will be able to start the dialogue with different cultures and find numerous issues that connect it with their local features; it will invite its citizens to bring their possessions and tell their stories. It will interpret new events in society through exhibitions in which all social classes will meet and join in dialogue.
Many museums are struggling to display the objects and stories of recent history. We often struggle again academic training to create collections of and write the stories of our own time. What about the museums? Do we handle contemporary history differently compared to, let's say, history of Middle Ages? How can we include recent history to the activities of archaeological, ethnographic, history and other museums?
We invite papers which focus on the notion and practice of contemporary collecting and the reinterpretation of (older) collections as well as upon participative collecting from museum ethnographers, historians, sociologists and others.
Theme 2. Curators, Collections, Collaboration:Towards a Global Ethics
Papers invited for these ICME sessions will address issues in today's ethnography museums from the point of view of curatorial decisions. Who is responsible for creating memories and whose stories are represented in our museums? We invite papers which approach these questions revealing on-going work by museum ethnographers and others to provide global answers.
Submitting abstracts
Abstracts of between 250 and 300 words will be submitted for selection to the ICME Review Committee, chaired by Annette B. Fromm. Submissions should be sent to annettefromm@hotmail.com by April 15, 2012. If you send the abstract as attachment, please also include the text of the abstract in the text of the e-mail itself.
The following information should be included with the abstract:
- Title of submitted paper
- Name(s) of Author(s)
- Affiliation(s) & full address(es)
- Abstract in English (between 250 and 300 words)
- Support equipment required
General conference information
Registration forms, registration fee information, hotels, and other details are available on the ICOM 23nd General Conference website -
http://rio2013.icom.museum
Details of the ICME conference will be forthcoming on the ICME web site - http://icme.icom.museum
ICME (the International Committee for Museums of Ethnography) is an international committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) devoted to ethnography (ethnology, anthropology, folk) museums focusing on local, national and international cultures. ICME is concerned with the challenges facing ethnographic museums and collections in a changing world.
Final details of the ICME conference, including the annual ICME post-conference tour, are still being confirmed, but the general format of the annual meeting will consist of paper and discussion sessions.
For additional information contact, Annette B. Fromm, chair, ICME, annettefromm@hotmail.com