Redressing Diversity: Making Hidden Histories Visible – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-11-28 09:00:00 in United Kingdom
This year’s conference will be taking place at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery on Thursday 28 – Friday 29 November 2019. The theme for the 2019 DATS’ conference is ‘redressing diversity’ and will be hosted by the Norfolk Museums Service. Museums are increasingly looking to diversify their collections, audiences and outputs. What part can dress and textile collections play in trying to represent BME, Deaf, disabled, LGBTQIA+ and other hidden histories? How do curators, co-curators and community collaborators discover stories within existing collections or under-take new collecting? The full conference programme, including tours, is listed below. DAY 1 Thursday, 28th November 10.00 – 10.15 Registration and coffee10.15 – 10.20 Welcome and Introduction 10.20 – 11.35 Session 1: Queer StoriesCollecting Pride T-shirtsAlice Power Queering Extant Costume Collections: The Case of Norman Hartnell’s Sequinned PyjamasDr Jane Hattrick Title tbcMartin Pel 11.35 – 12.00 Tea and coffee 12.00 – 12.55 Session 2: Collecting Hidden HistoriesFrayed: Textiles on the Edge. Curating an exhibition of therapeutic textilesRuth Battersby Tooke The Westminster Menswear Archive: Building a CollectionDanielle Sprecher 12.55 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00- 17.00 Session 3: Concurrent tours Delegates are invited to attend the following three events, with an hour reserved for each. Costume and textile store tour. Showing accessible storage and highlights of the collections. Objects with ‘hidden histories’. A focused session based at the Norwich Castle Study Centre. Visit the History of Norwich Textiles display at the Museum of Norwich. There will also be a demonstration of weaving on the jacquard loom. 18.00 – 19.30 Conference dinner Email vanessa.jones@leeds.gov.uk to register interest. Further details will be circulated soon. DAY 2 Friday, 29th November 09.00 – 09.30 Registration and coffee09.30 – 10.15 AGM 10.15 – 11.30 Session 4: Table discussions Led by staff from Norfolk Museums Service and Heritage Centre, delegates are invited to participate in three concurrent 20 minute round table discussions. The three discussions will be on the following topics: LGBTQ+, decolonisation and wider themes of hidden histories and diverse representation within museums. There will be a chance at the end of the discussions to come together and share ideas about how we can better approach hidden histories in museum dress collections. 11.30 – 12.00 Tea and coffee 12.00 – 12.55 Session 5: Fashioning Africa Title tbcRebecca Quinton Fashioning Africa; Post-colonial collecting in collaboration with communitiesRachel Heminway Hurst 12.55 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.15 Session 6: Diversity and FashionI Stand Corrected? New Perspectives on Orthopeadic FootwearRebecca Shawcross Frida Kahlo: Making Her UpRachael Lee Body Beautiful: Diversity on the CatwalkGeorgina Ripley 15.15 – 15.45 Tea and coffee15.45 – 16.00 Closing remarks BursariesWe have a few bursaries available to assist people to attend the conference. If you think this would be of use please email us at conference@dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk with a paragraph with details of the costs you would like covered and your reason why. The committee will consider all applications. Dietary and Access RequirementsRefreshments, including lunch, will be provided on both days. Please email conference@dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk with any dietay or access requirements before 14 November.
at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 24 Castle Meadow Norwich United Kingdom – Add your South African Event here.
Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?