What is the relationship between the digital and the museum? This question is at the heart of a 4- year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project, Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse), from which this 2-day workshop emerges.

We ask this question to tease out the multiple ways in which collections and objects housed in museums can be remediated and remade in new contexts. It enables us to think through what the ‘digital’ and the ‘analogue’ are, particularly in light of how the object, now transformed through printing, 3D imagery, video, sound, photography, and sophisticated photogrammetry tools, evoke complex questions around what the ‘object’ embodies and how various audiences respond to them.

This workshop will take place over two days from Thursday 19th – Friday 20th September in Edinburgh. Attendance is free, but due to limited spaces please register above to reserve your space. Registration will take place on the morning of Thursday 19th. Our venue is to be confirmed but the workshop will take place in or around University of Edinburgh central campus.

A full programme will be available shortly.

Speakers include:

• Jelena Porsanger (Sámi Museum in Karasjok)
• Nathaniel Majaw (St. Anthony’s College)
• Thupten Kelsang (St Anthony’s College)
• Cara Krmpotich (University of Toronto)
• Gwyneria Isaac (Smithsonian)
• Joshua Bell (Smithsonian)
• Noel Lobley (University of Virginia)
• John Harries (University of Edinburgh)
• Mridu Rai (UCL)
• Paul Basu (University of Oxford)
• Mark Elliot (University of Cambridge)

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 19th): ‘Digital Ways of Knowing’ by Haidy Geismar, Professor of Anthropology, UCL.

Location to be announced.