*Ethical Challenges in Cultural Stewardship, April 4-6, 2019Registration now open*
The Harry Ransom Center's thirteenth biennial Flair Symposium will take place April 4-6, 2019, in Austin, Texas. The forum will provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary conversations about pressing ethical questions confronting museums, libraries, archives, and communities. In the symposium's keynote, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard will reflect on her correspondence, at age 18, with J.D. Salinger, its consequences, what happened to those letters twenty-five years later, and what we can learn from the story in the age of the Me Too movement. Please visit: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/flair/ Panels include: • Where does a collection belong? Who decides? • What happens when ethical questions in the present call for researchers and institutions to reexamine approaches to existing collections? • How should ethics inform decisions about deaccessioning, repatriation, change in mission, and collection development? • How should institutions and communities responsibly collect, curate, conserve, and provide access to records of oppression, hate, and violence? • How should institutions and communities confront and rectify exclusionary practices? The symposium is open to the public, and discounts are available for students and educators. Follow the symposium on social channels using #flair2019. The symposium will be webcast live in its entirety on Facebook. -- *Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, PhD* Assoc. Director for Preservation & Conservation HARRY RANSOM CENTER | The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, Texas 78703, 512-471-5495 www.hrc.utexas.edu Affiliated Asst. Professor DEPT. OF ART CONSERVATION | University of Delaware ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
