Detailed program for the PhD course

“THE TRANSFORMATIVE MUSEUM”INTENSIVE, INTERNATIONAL PHD-COURSERoskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, 22 May 2012The course will give PhD-students and young scholars in-depth insight into key theoretical and methodological approaches to studyingevolving and transmuting museum practices, be they onsite or online, user-centred or organisational in nature.Course program8.30-9.30 Registration, Building 43, Room 43.3.299.30-9.45 Welcome and tour de table, Building 43, Room 43.2.299.45-10.45 Two oral essays and short discussion, Building 43, Room 43.2.29Kevin Crowley, University of Pittsburgh, USA, “Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead”Angela McFarlane, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, “Researching mobile learning in a museum context –what theoretical frameworks might we use?”

10.45-11.15 Coffee break11.15-12.15 Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projectsTrack 1Track 2Track 3Track 4 (NordLAC)Room 43.3.29Room 43.3.29bRoom 42.3.37Room 42.3.39Chair: Kim SchrøderChair: Erik KristiansenChair: Oluf DanielsenChair: Ola ErstadKrista Lepik, “Culturalparticipation of audiences inEstonian Public KnowledgeInstitutions”.Discussant: Elisa MandelliMentor: Lynda KellyVarpu Tissari, “Understandingsituated dynamics of interactionand intertextuality across schooland museum settings”.Discusant: Rakel PetursdottirMentor: Kim SchrøderLasse Gram-Hansen,”Persuasive design and digitalmediation of cultural heritage”Discussant: Line KnudsenMentor: Erik KristiansenChristian Mortensen, “Radio asintangible heritage”.Discussant: Rolf SteierMentor: Pille Pruulmann-VengerfeldtMaj Klindt, “Framing themuseum/museum frames”.Discussant: Gertrud L. KnudsenMentor: Angela McFarlaneLinda Lotina, “Resourceattraction as participatoryactivity in the museums inLatvia”.Discussant: Nuala MorseMentor: Oluf DanielsenKristin Aadland, ”Storytelling,oral skills and learning identity inschool – a study on storytellingsituations as a learning context inmulticultural schools”Discussant: Emma PetersonMentor: Kristiina KumpalainenAntti Rajala, ” Students’interpretation of a learning task:an activity-theoretical analysis”Discussant: Solveig RothMentor: Roger Säljö12.15-13.30 Lunch in the Foyer next to the Campus Canteen, between Buildings 00 and 01

13.30-14.30 Two oral essays and short discussion, Building 43, Room 43.2.29Ross Parry, University of Leicester, “Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead”Lynda Kelly, the Australian Museum, Sydney, “Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead”14.30-15.30 Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projectsTrack 1Track 2Track 3Track 4 (NordLAC)Room 43.3.29Room 43.3.29bRoom 42.3.37Room 42.3.39Rakel Petursdottir, “Credibilityand fictions”.Discussant: Varpu TissariMentor: Ross ParryRolf Steier, “Exploring digitalmethods for understandingvisitor interactions in an artmuseum”Discussant: Christian MortensenMentor: Lynda KellyGertrud L. Knudsen, “Strategicstakeholder communication in adynamic perspective:expectations to the local citymuseum”.Discussant: Maj KlindtMentor: Oluf DanielsenSolveig Roth, ”Exploring fundsof knowledge: How youngNorwegian-tamil girls develop alearning identity”Discussant: Antti RajalaMentor: Thomas HillmanRaquel B. Pinto, “Storytelling asa process of artistic and culturalappropriation”.Discussant: Rikke H. BaggesenMentor: Pille Pruulmann-VengerfeldtInes Ferreira, ”Museums in thetwenty-first century: theimportance of critical andcreative thinking”.Discussant: Taavi TatsiMentor: Kevin CrowleyNuala Morse, “Youth ledexhibitions making: intentions,rhetoric and reality”.Discussant: Linda LotinaMentor: Angela McFarlaneEmma Peterson: ”Making theinvisible visible:How students make use ofCarbon Footprint Calculator inenvironmental science”Discussant: Kristin AadlandMentor: Lasse Lipponen

Skulina Kjartansdottir, shortupdate of project (no paper)15.30-16.00 Coffee break16.00-17.00 Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projectsTrack 1Track 2Track 3Track 4 (NordLAC)Room 43.3.29Room 43.3.29bRoom 42.3.37Room 42.3.39Elisa Mandelli, ”Understandingthe transformative museum: alook at the past”.Taavi Tatsi, “Transformations ofmuseum-embedded culturalexpertise”.Track 3 participants join anothertrackTrack 4 participants join anothertrackDiscussant: Krista LepikDiscussant: Ines FerreiraMentor: Ross ParryMentor: Erik KristiansenRikke H. Baggesen, “Mobilemediation of fashion bymuseums”.Discussant: Raquel B. PintoLine Knudsen, “The map ofDanish rock history. Userinvolvement in early stagedevelopment of a digitalmuseum project”.Track 3 participants join anothertrackTrack 4 participants join anothertrackMentor: Kim SchrøderDiscussant: Lasse Gram-HansenMentor: Kevin Crowley17.30-18.00 Goodbye and course evaluation, Building 43, Room 43.2.29