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face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#999999'>Apologies
for cross-postings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Countering
Prejudice: Activism and Agency in the Museum<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Centre for Cultural Research
(UWS) and the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> present a seminar by Dr Richard Sandell, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Leicester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>When?</span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> Monday 28th April,
3-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Where?</span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> Australian Museum Theatrette, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">6 College Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
(please enter via <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">William Street</st1:address></st1:Street>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Research in recent years has
highlighted the constitutive or generative capacities of museums – their
potential to shape, rather than simply reflect, social relations and realities.
Museum displays, and the representations of difference embodied within them,
have social effects and consequences. Very often these effects have been
understood in broadly negative terms. Museums have been identified as agencies
which both shape and reinforce dominant (oppressive, discriminatory)
understandings of difference by excluding and marginalising or by constructing
representations that are reductive, essentialising and often stereotypical. By
casting racial, gender, physical and other ‘variations’ as inferior
or deviant, museums have privileged ways of seeing that have made prejudiced
understandings of difference both more perceptible and permissible (Sandell
2007). In recent years, however, there has been growing interest amongst both
practitioners and researchers in the social agency and responsibility of
museums and, more particularly, in their potential to frame (and reframe) the
conversations which society has about difference. A growing number of museums
have developed exhibitions, displays and other programmes which attempt to open
up possibilities for mutual respect and understanding between different social
groups; which seek to counter prejudice and which frame the ways in which
visitors participate in public (often morally charged) debates. Despite this
trend, relatively little is known about the social effects and consequences of
these socially purposeful interpretive interventions. How do visitors respond
to the exhibitions and other projects they encounter? How, if at all, do these
encounters unsettle or reconfigure existing perceptions? To<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>what extent might these
interventions shape broader social debates. This seminar presentation draws on
recent research to consider these and related questions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>About Dr Sandell<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr Richard Sandell is Head of the
Department of Museum Studies at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leicester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. Richard's
research interests focus on the social role and agency of museums and, in
particular, their potential to engage audiences in debates around contemporary
social issues. He is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Museums,
Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference </span></i>(2007), editor of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Museums, Society, Inequality </span></i>(2002) and
co-editor (with Robert R. Janes) of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Museum
Management and Marketing </span></i>(2007). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at
the Humanities Research Centre, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
pursuing his research project, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Museums and
Human Rights</span></i>. Richard is a Partner Investigator on the CCR-led
Australian Research Council Linkage grant <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Hot
Science Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change
interventions</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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