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thinking through the museum: A partnership approach to curating difficult knowledge in public is a seven-year research project funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council that brings together international scholars, students, museum professionals, and community representatives from 20 museums, universities, and NGOs in Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and the USA. The team works in museum, university, and NGOsettings to co-produce exhibitions and design tools to challenge elite institutional knowledge systems and explore alternative heritage mobilization in festivals, grassroots archives, and site-based curating, where communities can set their own agendas.
TTTM welcomes Affiliate applications from students, scholars, artists, and activists currently engaged in work on critical museum theory and practice in and beyond museum contexts.
A TTTM Affiliate is a researcher or practitioner who shares the project’s interests and ethical vision (see TTTM website), who makes an active contribution to its goals, and has successfully gone through our application (and annual renewal) process.
TTTM Affiliates mayo join one or more of the thematic research clusters and participate in TTTM activities and events. Affiliation also grants access to project resources such as workshops, TTTM’s digital project platform, and membership in the Emerging Scholars and Practitioners Committee (ESPC). In exchange, Affiliates are expected to actively participate and contribute in ways that enhance research cluster’s activities or develop activities that link across two or more clusters.
Affiliation lasts for one year, renewable via submission of an Annual Renewal Form. Cluster leads will review Affiliate applications and renewal requests. As TTTM does not offer funding to affiliates, applicants should have (or apply for) external funding if they require financial support for their participation in the project.