Museums as space of care: COVID-19 responses
| Dates: | 24 November 2021 |
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| Times: | 17:15 - 18:15 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, General public |
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| Speaker: | Dr Nuala Morse |
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Online Event
Drawing on her recent book, The Museum as a Space of Social Care (2020), Dr Nuala Moore explores the potential of ‘care thinking’ for understanding the social role of museums. The presentation will outline key themes from a book written before the pandemic, and reflect on their significance in today’s broken world. It will reflect on a range of acts of care that took place during lockdown led by museums’ community engagement teams; tenuous but determined efforts to continue caring for those most vulnerable in our communities. From here, she will reassess the significance of care for recovery and the opportunities it presents as the cultural sector emerges from the pandemic.
The second in Art History & Cultural Practices Research Seminar series 2021-2022 Semester 1: Cultural recovery - researching the arts & heritage in times of crisis
How does the arts respond to traumatic events? What kinds of social care and solace can artworks and the culture institutions that commission and exhibit them offer? And how have artists and arts workers found their own pathways for respite and recovery from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic?
This seminar series of international guest speakers will explore these questions and more through multidisciplinary lenses. Join us on Wednesday afternoons on the following dates:
3rd November, 4.30pm Dr Roaa Ali, University of Manchester - Diversity in Creative and Cultural Industries at the intersection of Covid and Black Lives Matter
24th November, 5.15pm Dr Nuala Morse, University of Leicester - Museums as space of care: COVID-19 responses
1st December, 5.15pm Dr Ana Milosevic, Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) - Hunting down a theory on monuments: memorials, trauma and healing
8th December 5.15pm Dr Dani Child, Manchester Metropolitan University & Dr Harry Weeks, Newcastle University - Covid-19 and the Useful Museum
Speaker
Dr Nuala Morse
Organisation: University of Leicester
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