CFP: 14th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)

Deadline: proposals due by June 8, 2021

2021 Special Focus—What Museums Post Pandemic?

Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Fourteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

• Visitor diversity in the inclusive museum
• Defining museum stakeholders and measuring participation
• The politics of heritage: national, regional, ethnic, diasporic and first nation identities
• Multilingualism: accessibility for small languages and cultures
• Gender and sexual orientation in the museum
• Disability access in the museum
• Competing cultures: high, folk, popular, techno-scientific
• Public trust: re-establishing the bases of ‘authority’
• Defining the ‘education’ and ‘communications’ roles of museums
• Pedagogy as presentation or dialogue: how the museum relates to its visitors
• The ubiquitous museum: towards the anywhere anytime learning resource
• Competing pleasures: museums against or with ‘entertainment’ and ‘edutainment’
• Cross connections: with schools, with universities
• Sponsorship and philanthropy: logics and logistics
• The economics of admissions
• Memberships: changing roles and demographics
• Voluntarism and professionalism: calibrating the mix
• Government stakeholders (local, state, national, transnational): museums in politics and navigating government funding and policies

 

For additional information, please visit the conference website.