Conférence de Tony Bennett

 

 

Tony Bennett 

Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University

 

Museums, Governance, and the Politics of Truth

 

Moderation

  • Guillaume Sirois, professor in Sociology (Université de Montréal)
  • Johanne Lamoureux, professor in Art History (Université de Montréal) and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Citizen Museology

 

Date et lieu

Tuesday, May 16, from 5:15 to 6:30
Université de Montréal
Pavillon de la Faculté de l’aménagement, room 1150
Followed by refreshments at the Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal

 

Presentation

Museums are currently faced with a daunting set of challenges in responding to the urgencies of climate change and the increasing force of Indigenous critiques. What light might Michel Foucault’s perspectives on the relations between the politics of truth and processes of social governance throw these issues? In engaging with this question I draw on earlier work exploring the roles that museums have played in the disciplining of democratic citizenries and the biopolitical governance of Indigenous populations for the light they might throw on their roles in two aspects of the politics of the present: museum engagements with Indigenous conceptions of the relations between Country and culture in processes of reconciliation; and the implications of current art historical debates for the politics of the Anthropocene.

 

Bibliography

Tony Bennett is an Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the UK Academy of the Social Sciences. His research spans across museum studies, cultural studies, and sociology. His contributions to museum studies include The Birth of the Museum (1995), Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (2004), as co-author, Collecting, Ordering Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government (2017), and Museums, Power, Knowledge (2018).

 

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