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Seminar : “Objects and things”
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Objects and Things in Social Sciences: Contemporary Materialities, Museums and Heritage

(Les objets et les choses en sciences sociales : matérialités contemporaines, musées et patrimoines)
 
– Thierry Bonnot, chargé de recherche CNRS
– Bernard Müller, anthropologue, enseignant Ecole supérieure d’art d’Avignon
– Christelle Patin, chercheure associée centre Alexandre Koyré-EHESS
Les 2e et 4e mercredi du mois de 14h à 16h
du 14 octobre 2020 au 9 juin 2021
 

Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

222 rue de l’Université

75343 Paris

Salle 2

This seminar is part of the long tradition of the anthropology of material culture and in the renewed framework of studies on the relationship to non-humans. We will focus on objects and things, material productions and human remains, works and utensils, remains and images. The distanced view that we will adopt will consist not only in making objects speak for the societies in which they are produced, used and valorised, but also in describing as scrupulously as possible the stakes and the social and historical conditions of this production, use and valorisation. It is objects and things as complex social facts that will hold our attention, as they are always caught in a tangle of individual interests and collective stakes, at the heart of conflicts of appropriation and interweaving of narratives. The objective of this seminar will be to address a set of case studies, with the participation of invited guests, cases selected from the history of the human and social sciences as well as from current events, and to decipher the major notions and transversal concepts of this field of research by drawing up a panorama of the literature specialised in anthropology, sociology, archaeology and history. The themes of memory, heritage and museums will be central to our subject. The relationship to objects and composite entities has undergone major changes in recent years, which should be analysed without losing sight of their anchoring in a long history.

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The organization of work must also be accompanied by the constant application of barrier measures.

It is therefore worth recalling that we are counting on the vigilance of everyone and on the absolute necessity of respecting current health recommendations.

We therefore underline the importance of the wearing of masks by everyone, which is compulsory within the museum premises, both in enclosed public spaces and in enclosed administrative spaces such as meeting rooms and circulation areas.

With regard to meeting rooms, care should be taken to adapt the number of participants according to the capacity of the room.

Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

222 rue de l’Université

75343 Paris

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