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is a student-led cross-disciplinary network that exists to investigate the meeting points between curatorial practice, academic research and object-based study

 
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Research/Curate

is a student-led cross-disciplinary network that exists to investigate the meeting points between curatorial practice, academic research and object-based study

Opportunity: Professional Development Course ‘Curating Now: Roles of the Contemporary Curator’, V&A Museum

Upcoming Event: ‘Lichen Landscapes and Mossy Minds’, Juneau Projects at the Lapworth Museum

Review: ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’, British Museum Exhibition

News: Calls for Ethical Review in Research using Human Remains

Upcoming Event/Opportunity: Propose a Session at the Museums Association Conference

Upcoming Event: ‘Fear in Ancient Culture’ conference, University of Reading

Upcoming Event: MuseumNext Conference Edinburgh 2020

The Neutral Museum

Upcoming Event: ‘Trial by Fire’ conference, University of Liverpool

Upcoming Event: “Emotion in the Museum”, University of York

Upcoming Event: Winter Candlelit Tour, Selly Manor

Upcoming Event: “The Civic and the Global: The V&A and the cultural mission of museums”

Upcoming Events: ‘What’s On’ at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Stories from Objects: Podcasts from the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology (UoB)

Volunteering Opportunities: Horniman Museum and Gardens, London

Upcoming Event: “Co-creating the Future: Participation and the Role of Visitor Studies”

Museums Association Event: “Future of Museums: Curation”

Upcoming Free Event: “Reciprocal Dialogues: Researching Digital Culture and Science Fiction”

Reflections: Hosting a @MuseumHour session on Curation

Upcoming Exhibition: “Art and Social Change: The Disability Arts Movement”

Digital Future Training Session: Introduction to Rights Management

Seminars with Centre for West Midlands History January – April 2020

Opportunity: Museum Development Officer, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

Opportunity: Call for Nominations for MA Board Members 2020

Upcoming Conference: Living Forward, Looking Back: Museum Practice for Postcolonial Futures (Cape Town)

Upcoming Conference: Empower Your Collections: Creating Dynamic and Relevant Museums

Notes from Norway: Gilbert & George ‘The Great Exhibition’ @ Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo

Upcoming Event: Pen and Print: archives, books and ephemera for research students: Women in print (University of Birmingham)

Opportunity: Project Curator, History of the Collection (British Museum)

News: Return of Cultural Heritage Project

Upcoming Event: Critical Debates in the Archaeology of the Middle East Conference (BANEA)

Upcoming Symposium: Ethics in Digital Heritage, University of East Anglia

Upcoming Event: Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Identification and Handling Session at BMAG

Research/Curate Podcast – The Nature of Private Collections

Upcoming Event: Museums Association Conference ‘All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums’

Understanding Stone Objects in Museums: The Eton Myers Collection

News: Launch of Midlands Art Papers Special Issue

Museums Association Research Project: Sticks and Stones: Bullying in Museums

Notes from Norway: A Weekend of Art in Bergen

Brum Youth Trends Report 2019: Who Runs Brum?

Black History Month at the University of Birmingham

Opportunity: Soho House Young Advisory Board (Beetfreeks)

SHOUT – Festival of Queer Arts and Culture, Birmingham

Arts and Digital Culture – Sophie Huckfield

Opportunity: Co-production Volunteer and Programme Assistant, Derby Museums

Upcoming Conference: Meaning, Memory and Movement Ancient and Medieval Spaces, University of Birmingham

Museums Change Lives Awards – Shortlist Announced

Upcoming Event: Book to the Future Festival, University of Birmingham

Sign up to the Careers in Culture Newsletter

Birmingham Literature Festival (October 2019)

Reflections on the Connecting Classical Collections conference (Great North Museum, 20th September 2019)

Arts Council England – Funding Information Event (DASH: Disability Arts in Shropshire)

Research/Curate Podcast – Disability Arts

Upcoming Event: ‘CreateSpace – Arts for Wellbeing’, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Upcoming Event: ‘Museums+Tech2019’, Museums Computer Group, British Library

Upcoming Opportunity: Call for Participants – Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text (CLEMT)

Upcoming Conference: ‘Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display’, Museo Egizio Turin

Opportunity: Learning and Engagement Manager, Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Upcoming Event: ‘Drink and Draw’, Edwardian Tearooms, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Internship Opportunity: Collections and Exhibitions Internship, The Story Museum Oxford

Upcoming Event: ‘Selly Manor Lates: Tudor Cinema Club’

Upcoming Event: ‘StrongWomen Science’, Lapworth Museum

Upcoming Event: ‘New Voices Art and Text’ Conference & Call for Papers, University of Nottingham

Reflections on the RCC Events at the Arts & Science Festival, 8th – 9th June 2019

Vacancy for Freelance Learning Assistant at Royal Collection Trust

Birmingham Heritage Week (12th – 22nd September 2019)

Upcoming Event: ‘Connecting Classical Collections’: Engaging with histories, networking for the future’

Upcoming Event: ‘Don’t Stop Me Now: Launching your Museum Career’, Museums Association

Vacancies at Culture Coventry

Volunteering Opportunities Available at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Upcoming Event: GEM Conference 2019 ‘Connection, Action, Innovation’

The Power of Public Space

Upcoming Event: Celebrate Sculpture Tour, University of Birmingham

Internship Opportunity: Cultural Intern Scheme, West Midlands

The Pomology Project by General Public

Call for Papers: Burlington Contemporary

Job Opportunity: Collection Online Early Career Research Fellow (Portraiture), Watts Gallery 

Brindleyplace Film Festival Birmingham, 15-21 July 2019

Upcoming Opportunity: Enter the Museums Change Lives Awards for 2019

Start with Art – Exhibition of photographer Tom Hicks, Bar Opus Birmingham

Art Fund Museum of the Year Winner

Upcoming Conference: “Bright Ideas: New Perspectives on Museum Lighting”

Inspiring Spaces Exhibition, Sara Preisler Gallery Birmingham

British Museum Exhibition “Troy: Myth and Reality” Opening November 2019

Upcoming Call for Papers and Conference: Power, Knowledge and the Past (UCL and British Museum)

Upcoming Talk: ‘Doing up the House’, Selly Manor

Paolozzi’s Silken World & Other Cities

Upcoming Event: Museum Tech 2019, Museums Association

Upcoming Event: Pouring Water through a Telescope

Reflections on Paolozzi exhibition install: Designing the Display Cases

Upcoming Event: Arts and Science Festival 2019-2020

Upcoming Conference: Peace making after the First World War, 1919-1923 (London)

New Exhibition: A Tale of Two Empires, Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Traineeship Opportunity: Bridging the Digital Gap Trainee, Heritage Quay University of Huddersfield

(Re)Currently Reading: Mark Dery’s ‘Escape Velocity, Cyberculture at the End of the Century’

Upcoming Event: Future of the Exhibition: Digital, Sensorial, Immersive – 22nd May 2019

Conservation Studio Tours – Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Upcoming Event: Barber Lates – Spring & Summer 2019

Reflections on CAKE Event: ‘Disability and Accessibility in the Arts’

Upcoming Event: Play/Pause Immersion|Dissonance Symposium

Upcoming Event: Displaying Human Remains, Liverpool World Museum

Upcoming Event: Beauty, Bodies and Social Justice – public lecture by Heather Widdows

Upcoming Event: ‘#DrinkingaboutMuseums’ – West Midlands Emerging Museum Professionals

Green Heart Festival 7th – 9th June 2019

Upcoming Event: ‘Paolozzi and the Screen: Printing Workshop

Upcoming Conference: Micro-Aggressions, Philosophy and Academia

Upcoming Conference: The Thrill of the Dark: Heritages of Fear Fascination and Fantasy

Call for Papers: Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

Reading an object and its spaces: The bust of Constance Naden

PhD Studentship Opportunity: University of Leicester and the British Museum

Upcoming UoB Conference: ‘Word, Music, Image: Spaces in Time’

Call for Papers: National Programmes Conference, British Museum

“Collections in circulation: international conference” – Mobile Museum Project

Upcoming Event: Goldsmiths Inaugural Lecture ‘Fictioning: Mythopoesis, Myth-Science and Mythotechnesis’

Upcoming Event: ‘Do not Touch? 3D in Museums’, University of Cambridge

New Exhibition- The Sketchbook and the Collider: Collision Event

Upcoming Training Event: Museum Documentation Basics

Upcoming Centre for the Study of Global Ethics Conference: Bodies and Embodiment

Exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing’ Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Upcoming Event at the V&A: ‘Culture in Crisis – Protecting Cultural Heritage: Theft, Looting and the Law’

Egyptian Blue: Giving Voice to the Objects of the Eton Myers Collection

Google Arts & Culture – Online Science Exhibition ‘Once Upon a Try’

Reflections on the recent ‘Cadbury Treasures’ Campaign

Call for Papers: International Committee for Exhibition Exchange

The Development of Research/Curate – Curating Art History: dialogues between museum professionals and academics

ICOM – Creating a New Museum Definition

Network of European Museum Organisations Internship Opportunity

Curious about… Birmingham – Free Heritage Walks

Upcoming Museums Association Conference – Amazing Spaces: New Thinking on Exhibition Design

The Museum as Method: Collections, Research, Universities 14 March 2016 – 15 March 2016

‘Artefacts of Excavation’ – Creating museum distribution lists for Egyptian artefacts

Universitas 21 International Museums and Collections Awards 2016