{"id":1141,"date":"2010-11-22T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:10:34","slug":"curiouser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/11\/22\/curiouser\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiouser &amp; Curiouser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring may feel far away on a bleak November day but it doesn&#8217;t mean we cannot look ahead and plan for things to come. <a title=\"To the conference description and call for papers (new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/curiouser-and-curiouser-challenging.html\" target=\"_blank\">Curiouser &amp; Curiouser : Challenging Convention and Celebrating the Unusual in Museums and Heritage<\/a> is a three-day PhD symposium to be held in Leicester from 28-30 March 2011. The call for papers describes the event as\u00a0 &#8220;challenging conventional perceptions of cultural institutions and the roles which they play in contemporary society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Definitions of what is acceptable within museums and collections are  changing, catalysed by the blurring of boundaries once enforced by such  factors as national identity, ethnicity, socio-economic position and  public and personal ideologies. Is what was once considered bizarre or  strange becoming more mainstream? What exactly is meant by &#8216;curious&#8217; or  &#8216;eccentric&#8217;, and need such words have pejorative connotations? <\/em>from the<a title=\"To the conference description and call for papers (new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/curiouser-and-curiouser-challenging.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Call for papers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The event is organised by the School of Museum Studies at the University  of Leicester. The programme will feature both presentations and workshops and contributions are invited from the areas of\u00a0 museum  studies, cultural studies and allied subjects. Particularly welcome are submissions which propose to use innovative and experimental presentation  strategies.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the event and the call for papers is available in <a title=\"To the conference description and call for papers (new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/curiouser-and-curiouser-challenging.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Attic<\/a> &#8211; a blog for the School of Museum Studies&#8217; research students, University of Leicester, UK. To register, fill out the forms available from <a title=\"To the registration information page (new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/projects\/curiouser\/delegates\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/projects\/curiouser\/delegates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring may feel far away on a bleak November day but it doesn&#8217;t mean we cannot look ahead and plan for things to come. Curiouser &amp; Curiouser : Challenging Convention and Celebrating the Unusual in Museums and Heritage is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/11\/22\/curiouser\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}