Decolonising GLAMs: Practices, Communities and Collective Action (Hybrid)
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Decolonising GLAMs: Practices, Communities and Collective Action
This one-day hybrid final conference of the DeCoGLAM community explores how decolonial and community-centred approaches can benefit Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs).
Through talks, discussions, and collaborative mapping, participants will reflect on what it means to decolonise GLAMs practice — and how collective action can build more equitable knowledge futures.
DeCoGLAM (Decolonising the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Network) brings together researchers, cultural workers, and community organisers to share experience, tools, and critical insights that challenge colonial legacies within memory institutions.
This event will summarise the achievements of DeCoGLAM, discuss its sustainability and continue that conversation by focusing on practice — what we do, how we do it, and how we can act collectively to make change sustainable.
DeCoGLAM is supported by the Collaborative Research Cultures project at the University of Strathclyde funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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- 6 hours 30 minutes
- In person
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University of Strathclyde,The Technology and Innovation Centre
99 George Street
Glasgow G1 1RD United Kingdom
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Welcome: Professor Churnjeet Mahn
Prof. Churnjeet Mahn is a Deputy Associate Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Strathclyde where her portfolio includes Research Culture. She leads the Wellcome Trust funded institutional research culture project, Cultures of Collaborative Research and was the first chair of the university’s Race Equality Steering Group.
Decolonising Memory towards Collective Liberation: the power of practice
The Whose Knowledge? team will unpack the struggles of "decolonising" GLAM institutions, reflecting on a set of ongoing, messy but honest practices rather than theory or co-optation. They will reflect on their own efforts in network building, highlighting the experiences of their own communities and ecosystems of liberatory archiving and memory work.
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