Museum Studies at Leicester
Art Museums and Galleries Spring School 2025
Current Debates in the Arts
A free online event organised by the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
Date: Monday 31 March 2025
This day-long spring school will address current debates in the Arts, Museum and Gallery sectors. You will hear from experts who teach the MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester and will have an opportunity to discuss these issues informally with them.
This online event is free to attend. You may drop in and out of any item, as you wish.
Programme
10.00am-10.30am: Investigating the history of Black figures in British art
Led by Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage, author of Our Island Stories, a book of country walks through colonial Britain.
11.00am-11.30am: Indigenous art, collectives and emerging arts-based methodologies
Led by Alice Tilche, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, author of Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
12.00pm-12.30pm: Inclusive Conversations: advancing inclusion in and through the arts
Led by Richard Sandell and Suzanne MacLeod, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
1.00pm-1.30pm: Introduction to the Art Museum and Galleries postgraduate degree
Including a Q&A with course staff
1.30pm-2.00pm: Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory
Led by Isobel Whitelegg, Associate Professor, Art Museum and Gallery Studies
2.30pm-3.00pm: How Museums Talk about Iconoclasm: Interpreting Attacks on Art
Led by Stacy Boldrick, Associate Professor, Art Museum and Gallery Studies, author of Iconoclasm and the Museum
3.30pm-4.00pm: Is the Countryside the Future of Contemporary Art?
Led by Rosemary Shirley, Associate Professor of Art Museum and Gallery Studies, curator, writer and author of Rural Modernity Everyday Life and Visual Culture
4.30pm-5.00pm: An introduction to Cr/ía, an outward-facing and interdisciplinary hub for arts-centred research at the University of Leicester
Led by Alice Tilche and Isobel Whitelegg
- If you haver queries about the event, please contact museum@le.ac.uk