Forum: Mobilizing Heritage in Museums to Promote Inclusion and Engagement

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Co-sponsored by the UNM Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies Program, we are welcoming this hybrid, two-part forum open to the UNM community and general public. It is part of the 2024 American Folklore Society (AFS) annual meeting taking place in Albuquerque from Nov. 6-9 and is also sponsored by the AFS Folklore and Museums Section.

Forum Chairs: Tom O'Dell and Lizette Gradén (both of Lund University, Sweden).

Panelists:
Maria Domeij Lundborg (Regional Museum of Scania), Marsha MacDowell (Michigan State University), Charlotte
Hyltén-Cavallius (Uppsala University, Sweden), Kurt Dewhurst (Michigan State University), Brent Bjorkman (Western Kentucky
University), Josh Niedwick (WKU PBS), and Alice Gatewood Waddell (Bowling Green, KY).

The central questions this forum focuses upon concern new emerging practices of museology. We welcome both people working within museum as well as within academia to discuss the new emerging models of collaborative work that they see occurring in the world of museums. We are particularly interested in learning from people working in or with community-based museums as well as museums that work closely with the communities around them. How does the future of knowledge production look? Whose interests is it gaged to meet? To what extent are the changes which are occurring driven by admission, societal impact, or other factors?

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A reception will follow from 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm in the Hibben Atrium with food and beverages by Diné Chef Cleo Otero and live original music by UNM graduate student Carlos Arellano. Then, we will end the night from 5:30 - 7:00 pm in the Department of Anthropology, Rm 163, with a unique talk and dance demonstration by virtuoso artist Vong Pak and his dance group "Korean Immigrant Dance in America (KIDA)" coming directly from New York City.

* For registered attendees of AFS, a charter bus will be running non-stop from 12:45 pm - 7:30 pm from the ABQ Convention Center to the Maxwell Museum and back, "round robin"-style *

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