Material Identities: Representing
our National and European Selves
in Museums
Athens
23-25 April 2012
This research workshop (23-24 April) and public event (25 April) will consider the manner in which Europeans negotiate and represent their national and European selves in national and regional museums, as well as in online museum-like engagements.
The workshop has three points of focus: objects and buildings as implicit representations of identity at a national and European level; the production and characterisation of national identities in regional and local museums; and a consideration of new online engagements which in their style of selection, collection, memory making, socialised negotiation and representation possess the characteristics of, and supplant the performances of, museums.
The public event will begin with presentations in this area of debate from leading scholars on European history, material culture and identities and lead into an afternoon discussing national museums and the European citizen.
The workshop and the event on material identities will be followed by a workshop on museum audiences: experiences and identities 26-27 April.
