This seminar solicits papers on all aspects of museums, collections, displays, exhibitions, and galleries. Topics might include archives; archaeologies; fantasies of libraries and museums; new and/or old museologies; curatorship; fictional museums and museums of fiction; scandal, sensation and the museum; wax museums; disreputable museums; the avant garde in and against the museum; ethnography; anthropology; colonialism and anticolonialist resistance; Native and First Peoples and the museum; museums and the Holocaust; installation art; retrospectives and retro; ghosts, mummies and haunted museums; struggles over national identity and museums (e.g. the Elgin marbles); forgeries and frauds; window shopping; Jurassic Technologies; thrift stores. Rigorously interdisciplinary approaches welcomed.

Abstracts of 250 words or fewer and a summary cv should be submitted by September 15 to:

Michael du Plessis, University of Colorado-Boulder, Campus Box 331, Boulder, CO 80309-0331; tel: (303)492-8406; Kchapg@cs.com