Continue the conversation
At the NEMO European Museum Conference “Can we talk? Museums facing polarisation”, we will further explore museum’s vital role to build bridges and contribute to a world that champions inclusion rather than polarisation and hatred. We have the pleasure to welcome back E-J Scott as one of our speakers in the session “Can we talk?” on Monday 11 November.
Get your ticket to be part of important discussions from 10-12 November 2024 in Sibiu, Romania, to among others discuss how to build strong relationships with underrepresented groups and foster their representation.
Later this year NEMO will publish its own adaption of the Trans-Inclusive Culture Guidance. NEMO's ethical guidance will offer a European perspective on LGBTQIA+ inclusion in museums and the research will be accompanied by solutions to possible scenarios and challenges that museum professionals across Europe might be facing.
Get to know the webinar speakers
E-J Scott
E-J Scott is a curator, cultural producer and academic whose practice focusses on enabling communities who may traditionally have been marginalised in museums to recentre their histories via interventive participatory practice. E-J is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. They founded the Museum of Transology in 2014, now the largest collection of material culture representing trans lives in the world (Bishopsgate Institute, London). From curating large scale queer cultural events like Tate’s annual Queer & Now festival, to producing expansive regional oral-history collecting projects like West Yorkshire Queer Stories, to researching performative heritage arts engagement like DUCKIE’s Lady Malcolm’s Servant’s Balls or PRINCESS: The Queer Georgians’ Bent History Bachannal, E-J’s work embraces the belief that co-curation can drive positive social change by offering communities an enhanced sense of belonging. Their current digital collecting strategy for Trans Pride collectives across the UK reflects their broader interest in interrogating networked digital co-curation as a tool that can be utilised by the subversive intellectual undercommons (Harney & Moten, 2013) to disrupt populism and culture wars. E-J was awarded the UK’s Activist Museum Award 2020/21 by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG).
Suzanne MacLeod
Suzanne MacLeod is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries. She has published widely around museum architecture and design and has a particular interest in design forms and processes and how they might be harnessed towards positive social and organisational impacts by progressive museums. Previous publications include: Museums and Design for Creative Lives; Reshaping Museum Space; Museum Making (with Jonathan Hale and Laura Hanks); and Museum Architecture: A New Biography.
Richard Sandell
Richard Sandell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries. His research and practice, carried out in collaboration with museums, galleries and heritage organisations, explores the potential that museums might play in supporting human rights, social justice and equality. His most recent books include - Museums, Moralities and Human Rights (2017) and Museum Activism (with Robert R. Janes) (2019), winner of the Canadian Museums Association’s award for Outstanding Achievement for Research in the Cultural Heritage Sector.
Nicole Moolhuijsen
Nicole Moolhuijsen is a researcher and practitioner working on queer heritage practices and museum interpretation. She coordinates ICOM Italy’s group on Gender and LGBTQ+ rights and is pursuing her PhD at the University of Leicester. In Italy, she has initiated several collaborative projects on queerness and accessibility in cultural institutions. Her writings in academic and art media platforms focus on cultural activism, social change, and queer issues. Recent publications include 'Rethinking Sexualities in Heritage Spaces' (Dutch Journal of Gender Studies, 2024).
