Emma Martin
@tibetcurator
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Director & Senior Lecturer @UoMICP Advisor @tibetmuseum 2018-23 Research: Tibet’s material history #THObjectLessons Book: The Dissident Museum @disobedientmuse
Manchester
Joined March 2016
Contract signed. My book The Dissident Museum will be part of the @disobedientmuse series on #Museums #Activism #Politics and #Tibet Out sometime early 2024 (I say with naïveté and optimism)
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📢📢 Publication alert: Delighted that my article "A Tibetan Window into the 20th C Himalayan World" is out! Drawing on archival collections in Delhi, Gangtok, and London, I show how the #Tibetans who came to India in the 1940s and 1950s trod centuries'-old migration routes.
Look fwd to presenting at the conference "The #Himalaya from its Edges" by @AshokaUniv+ @UniWestminster w/ FULL @tibetscapes contingent, @JigmeYesheLama, @ThatPukkaYak, @aniketalam, @Uchoedup. Keynote "Social Death and Cultural Politics across the Himalayas" by Carole McGranahan.
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My recent essay discusses the Tibetan Struggle at 70 for the Australian Institute of International Affairs. @AIIANational
https://t.co/24FzcZ6nWi
internationalaffairs.org.au
On 6 July, the 14th Dalai Lama turned 89, having lived for the last 65 years in exile in India. The Dalai Lama is the physical embodiment of the Tibetan nation and his advancing age brings forth...
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Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice is released into the world today! Free & Open Access from @UCLpress @MMStCara & I have been working with a stellar group of contributors 👇 Read our work here: https://t.co/EnPgvQonzc
Congratulations to @MMStCara, @aliceestevenson and their contributors! Their new #openaccess book Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice publishes today! Read and download it free`: https://t.co/QZj4RYqikN
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Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy has been appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport @DCMS.
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After many discussions, meetings, more meetings, testing, and a huge amount of work, especially by our amazing Web Officer, @aayushiggupta, the new @mus_ethno_group website is LIVE! Please check out https://t.co/gte7LfTebj for blogs, opportunities, events and more!
museumethnographersgroup.org.uk
Discover a wealth of knowledge with MEG. Join us as a member to access a rich supply of resources on cultural diversity, exhibitions & research in ethnography.
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Vacancy: @JournalofMEG @_amiekirby & I are on the look out for a new Book Reviews Editor. If you would like to gain editorial experience in a friendly environment then pls apply. You'll shadow the current Book Reviews Editor before formally taking it on in 2025✍️Apply by 31 July
We're looking for a new Book Reviews Editor to join our team! Anyone interested in getting editorial experience can apply. For more info see here:
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Beyond excited about this new (permanent, full-time) curatorial role @RMGreenwich: Curator of Maps and Mobilities https://t.co/MglDwo7GMd. Please share! #curator #cartography #navigation #maps #globes #global #maritime #mobility #trade #migration #museumjobs
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We are hiring for this exciting new role of Curatorial Assistant Humanities (Provenance Researcher African Collections)@McrMuseum . Come and work with me; https://t.co/xJIQ4ypD7x
jobs.manchester.ac.uk
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Just signed up for this interesting event next Tuesday featuring @SushmaJansari please retweet @mus_ethno_group @AmyLShakespeare @JoelFagan1 @lahareem17 @aayushiggupta @_amiekirby @JohannaZS @tibetcurator @helenmears
Who gets remembered, and who forgotten? Join us online on Tuesday 11 June for a free Expert Panel on Curating Colonialism and Silenced Histories. 6-7:30pm via Zoom. Free tickets: https://t.co/dk3ODEs3R3 Supported by the British Art Network.
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Working class creatives in film and TV at lowest level in decade https://t.co/V0HyFVGwgb
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Remember this👇🏻 Finally out with a pdf of the chapter available here https://t.co/4LtpntNC3q
research.manchester.ac.uk
Finally! Last edits before going to press. A chapter written in 2019 on curatorial practices, contemporary collecting & ideas of absence|presence @TibetMuseum I’m an interloper in a vol. on Tibetan Monastery Museums & Collections (eds.) Christian Luczanits and Louise Tythacott
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I'm excited to share that the Victoria and Albert Museum and University College London are offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. For more information: https://t.co/zSXmSF21f3
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Excited to share Ashwathy Vishwanathan's (@ashwathy208) 1st Tibetscapes article - a photo essay from her field trip to Ravangla! Access here: https://t.co/XSWIwrOL0t Ashwathy is a PhD student at @iitmadras, with a focus on gender & exile. Learn more: https://t.co/RT0q5bcwls
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I never get tired of this amazing research. It’s the case study that keeps on giving. Congratulations Lewis! 🥳
chuffed that my new article in @UrbanHistoryCUP is out now! I use a 'local crank' to examine how citizenship was understood & exercised by ordinary people in the 1920s, and how far 'active' citizenship could be used to challenge civic elites https://t.co/vdsZUB70hE
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My invited perspective piece in the @CurrentHistory on the challenges in front of the Tibetan exile community in India today.
Our annual South Asia issue is out! With Itty Abraham @ASU_SFIS on India’s space program and visions of progress, Satendra Kumar @UZH_en on rural change in India, Sohela Nazneen @IDS_UK on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, … https://t.co/WKK9FG7lsc
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Apply to do a Phd with us: deadline is this Friday, March 15.
A @NWC_DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. @World_Museum Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me @DrLucaScholz @LifeOnBaars and in collab w. @o_backhouse Start: 01/10/24 #phd #ahrc #phdfunding
https://t.co/NmbWvTlsim
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Just a few days until the deadline for this fully funded PhD @UoMICP
A @NWC_DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. @World_Museum Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me @DrLucaScholz @LifeOnBaars and in collab w. @o_backhouse Start: 01/10/24 #phd #ahrc #phdfunding
https://t.co/NmbWvTlsim
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2 weeks left to apply for this fully funded #PhD @UoMICP combining #MuseumStudies and #DigitalHumanities to ask questions of #museum #DataVisualisation
A @NWC_DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. @World_Museum Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me @DrLucaScholz @LifeOnBaars and in collab w. @o_backhouse Start: 01/10/24 #phd #ahrc #phdfunding
https://t.co/NmbWvTlsim
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Come do a PhD with us!
A @NWC_DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. @World_Museum Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me @DrLucaScholz @LifeOnBaars and in collab w. @o_backhouse Start: 01/10/24 #phd #ahrc #phdfunding
https://t.co/NmbWvTlsim
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