Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage — welcome event

This event is to welcome new and returning students across the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies – with a special welcome to our incoming MA students on the Art Gallery and Museum Studies, Arts Management and Heritage Studies and Curating Science courses and our new PhD researchers.

A range of researchers from the MA programmes, PhD programmes and staff will give a three minute insight into their research.

Speakers

Rob Knifton, University Academic Fellow in Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
Hip hop museology: applying hip hop cultural strategies to sound-led community digital engagement in the museum’

Liz Stainforth, Lecturer in Heritage Studies
'Utopia: Crafting the Ideal Book'

Cat Lane, MA in Arts Management and Heritage Studies (2020-21) on their practice-Led Dissertation
‘Breaking the Binary’

Stuart Bowes, PhD Researcher
'Solid Foundations: Registrar Practice at the Royal Armouries'

Victoria Vargas Downing
'Decolonising heritage through contemporary art'

Laura Swithenbank, PhD researcher
‘The club at the top of the valley: “writing of a world to a world”’

Helen Graham, Associator Professor in Museum and Heritage Studies
‘Tensions as strengths?’: Bradford’s National Museum

Link to the event

The event will be held online on Zoom. It is open to all students and staff in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

The link can be found here.

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