Hi everyone - the next two days I'll be attending the below conference
- *Connecting
the Dots: Virtuality, Technoloy & Feminism in the Museum*.
The GLAM industry is a female dominated industry, and this is the first
conference of it's type to examine feminism, technology and museum culture.
I encourage you all to follow the conference throughout the weekend...
-Sarah
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From: Proctor, Nancy <ProctorN(a)si.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Subject: The Feminist Movement in Museum Technology starts today at the
Smithsonian!
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A final reminder and open invitation to join:
Connecting the Dots: Virtuality, Technology & Feminism in the Museum
http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/Smithsonian
Three days of lively conversation and provocative insights kick off tonight
with an interview with Griselda Pollock by Juliette Bellow.
http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNum…
Huge kudos to Faye Browning, Liz Paige and Alison Romain from TSA for
organizing this, and infinite thanks for supporting the Symposium!
On Friday and Saturday, we have an amazing array of International and local
luminaries who'll start and facilitate our ongoing dialogue:
http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/Smithsonian
I'd like to thank them all for giving so generously of their time and
expertise to further this important research.
Friday and Saturday's free Symposium will be Live Blogged between 10-5:30pm
EST
http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/w/page/45814557/Live%20Blog
Thanks to volunteer Neal Stimler for coming down from the Met to manage this
and more!
Friday's plenary sessions will be videoed and added later to the wiki, along
with a CART full text transcript of the day's conversation. I'd like to
thank Marc Bretzfelder from OCIO and Beth Ziebarth from the Accessibility
Program for helping us increase access to the Symposium exponentially by
providing this critical technology support.
Join the wiki at any time and continue the conversation in the Forum:
http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/w/page/45211170/Forum
And if you can join us in person, say hi to volunteers Sonja Lopez, Laurie
Stepp, Ginny Hogan and Stacie Kirby, without whom this event could not have
happened!
Nancy
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Smithsonian Institution
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