Seminar on Comparative Museology took place at the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford, on June 8th 2007.

The daylong seminar brought together eight museum curators and academics from various institutions to consider aspects of museums’ development in the Middle East, the Balkans, China and in Diaspora. All speakers shared the common background of having conducted extensive field research in the countries whose case studies they presented; half of them also had many years of curatorial experience at a number of prominent institutions.

The Seminar was attended by audiences of up to 40 (maximum capacity) students and senior staff from a number of Departments at Oxford University (History of Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Politics, and the Oriental Institute). There were also academics, curators and an artist from the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Warwick and Leeds Universities. Majority of participants attended the entire program. The Seminar’s proceedings will be published by the Duke University Press journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME). Homa Nasab will serve as guest editor of the special issue dedicated to Comparative Museology.

Detailed Report: http://www.museumviews.com/JCP/Comparative_Museology.htm