Events

2024/25 School of Museum Studies/Institute for Digital Culture Seminars (Semester 2)

Seminars take place in person at the Innovation Hub, 128 Regent Road, Leicester LE1 7PA (either in the Boardroom or the Conference Room, ground floor), and online via MS Teams. All are welcome. 

• Wednesday 5 March 2025 (1.00pm -2.00pm) Conference Room, Innovation Hub and online: Eleanor S. Armstrong (Space Research Fellow, University of Leicester, UK), and Camille-Mary Sharp (Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, Canada), ‘Between a rock and a hard space: Reconsidering museum minerals’.
• Wednesday 19 March 2025 (1.00pm - 2.00pm) Conference Room, Innovation Hub and online: Jampa Choetso (XiangbaQingcuo) (Visiting PhD Fellow, Hong Kong Baptist University), ‘Exhibiting Tibetan Culture in ‘Private’ Museums: Representation and Negotiation’.
• Wednesday 2 April 2025 (1.00pm - 2.00pm) Conference Room, Innovation Hub and online: Sandra Dudley (Professor of Museum Anthropology and Head of School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), ‘Developing co-created research with partners in active conflict zones: thinking about culture, creativity, hope and resilience in wartime, in collaboration with an artists’ collective in Myanmar (Burma)’.
• Wednesday 30 April 2025 (1.15pm - 2.15pm) Boardroom, Innovation Hub and online: Edoardo Francia (Visiting PhD Fellow, Università del Piemonte Orientale – Vercelli), ‘The house museum as contact zone and translation zone: postcolonial rediscovery of the "Sala Araba" of Museo Borgogna in Vercelli, Italy’.
• Wednesday 14 May 2025 (1.00pm - 2.00pm) Conference Room, Innovation Hub and online: Holly Bee (PhD candidate, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), ‘A Fire, a Web, and a Water Cycle: the emotional world of the socially engaged museum worker’.
• Wednesday 28 May 2025 (1.15pm - 2.15pm) Boardroom, Innovation Hub and online: Santiago Valencia Parra (Digital Curator, Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR), British Museum), ‘Commonality and care: practices to decolonise the museum’

Cr/ia (Creative Research/Instituting Art) training series: Arts-based methodologies in research

Cr/ia will offer four training sessions in arts-based methodologies aimed at addressing questions of power in knowledge production, and at improving the ability of research methods to grasp affective, ephemeral and embodied knowledge. The training sessions are open to all PGR students and staff from the University of Leicester for a maximum of 25 participants. Please write to lias@le.ac.uk if you would like to book a place also indicating any accessibility needs.  

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Current debates in the arts

A free online event on Monday 31 March 2025.

This day-long spring school will address current debates in the Arts, Museum and Gallery sectors. Attendees will hear from experts who teach the MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies and will have an opportunity to discuss these issues informally with them.

View details and register your attendance for current debates in the arts event