Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics – 20% discount

The University of Leicester School of Museum Studies has negotiated a 20% discount on the full purchase price of the Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics Edited by Janet C. Marstine.

Paperback: £27.99

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Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of compliance. The volume represents diverse strands in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing, as ethics is embedded in all areas of the museum sector. What the contributions share is an understanding of the contingent nature of museum ethics in the twenty-first century—its relations with complex economic, social, political and technological forces and its fluid ever-shifting sensibility.

CfP: Museum Ethics

First Biennial Graduate Student Conference: New Directions in Museum Ethics
Institute of Museum Ethics, Seton Hall University, Saturday, November 14, 2009

Recent social, economic, political, and technological trends have presented novel ethical challenges and opportunities across all areas of museum activity. What are these challenges and opportunities and what do they tell us about the changing roles and responsibilities of museum professionals and of diverse stakeholders? The Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University invites the submission of abstracts for its „New Directions in Museum Ethics” Graduate Student Conference. Submissions are welcome from graduate students in museum studies, curatorial studies, heritage studies, legal studies, and discipline-based studies.

Keynote talk by Dr. Glenn Wharton, Conservator, Museum of Modern Art, and Research Scholar, New York University: Expanding Representation in Conservation: From Hawaiian Public Sculpture to Media Installations at MoMA.

Please send abstract of no more than 300 words, along with cover letter and 1-2 page c.v.
Abstracts due Monday, June 8, 2009 to Janet Marstine, Director, Institute of Museum Ethics marstija@shu.edu

For those presenting, final papers will be due September 15, 2009.