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Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones

A two-day international symposium for PhD students and early career researchers.Monday 14

and Tuesday 15

December 2009.University of Leicester, UK.Join us at the

new

School of Museum Studies this December for the symposium

Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones

.Museums are all about the material world; the display and preservation of works of art, their presentation and interpretation to audiences. Yet, it can be argued that it is the 'intangible' elementsof objects, museums and their audiences which create meanings from the material world. Betweenthe 'material' and the 'intangible' often a controversial, defined division is perceived.

Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones

intends to challenge this fixed division and explore a more fluid

conceptual space

, where the ‘material’ and the ‘intangible’ interweave.We have devised an exciting programme of presentations and workshops, keynote speakers andartistic interventions, which engage with

materiality and intangibility

in inspiring and innovative ways.Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Dr Kostas Arvanitis,University of Manchester.A provisional programme shall be available shortly. Please refer to

The Attic

(http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com) for further details.The events will be hosted by the research student community based at the School of MuseumStudies at the University of Leicester, a leading internationally renowned centre for Museum Studiesand teaching since 1966. The School was recently assessed as having the highest proportion of world-leading research in any subject in any UK university (RAE 2008).Booking fee: £20 (includes lunch and refreshments and refreshments on both days).If you would like to attend, please complete the attached form and return it, with payment, to thefollowing address before 30

November 2009. Cheques to be made payable to ‘University of Leicester’. Please contact Amy Barnes (ajb108@le.ac.uk) should you wish to pay by alternativemeans.Materiality and IntangibilitySchool of Museum StudiesUniversity of Leicester Museum Studies Building19 University RoadLeicester. LE1 7RF