Linnea Wallen

Looking Back, Looking Forward: LGBTQ+ Equalities Let's look back, and look forward together

Excited to be running this Festival of Social Science event in Glasgow, on November 7th. If you are interested in LGBTQ+ equalities work or want to come along and learn more, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...

Decorative Banner: QHCN Symposium 2025 - Registrations Open Logos included: National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, Historic England, RCMG, University of Leicester, Arts Council England

📢 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! 📢

Registrations are open for the upcoming QHCN Symposium, exploring the innovative queer heritage work being developed by cultural organisations across the UK and beyond

📆 Date: 25-26 November 2025
📍 Location: National Trust - Heelis

Registration links below ⬇

Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...

Our friends at @socantscot.bsky.social invite you to a free hybrid talk: Reinterpreting the Past to Explain the Present and Reimagine the Future, with Nelson Cummins on colonial histories in Glasgow Museums.

📆 Thu 2 October, 6-8pm
🎟 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

Live! Pilot study on emotions in the museum & heritage workforce. Curious to reflect on emotions in your role & work? To help test methods for a future project? See survey link below with additional info & invitation to participate @annawoodham.bsky.social qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine Explore the history of Palestinian dress and the ancient practice of elaborate hand-embroidery

🧵@vadundee.bsky.social is hosting a landmark exhibition exploring the tradition of tatreez: Palestinian embroidery. Thread Memory features over 30 historic embroidered garments, accessories, and archival photographs from the 19th century to today. #exhibition #embroidery #palestine

Football Memories: from pilot scheme to national programme - Museums Galleries Scotland Richard McBrearty, Curator at the Scottish Footall Museum, reflects on the nationwide growth of Football Memories reminiscence project.

⚽ In our latest case study, Curator Richard McBrearty shares how the Scottish Football Museum scaled up their 'Football Memories' reminiscence project by building powerful partnerships and connecting with experts: www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/case-study/f...

“The nostalgia deployed here was fluid, enabling an attachment to the past, but also a reimagining of it into a different future.”

Kate Burningham and Susan Venn @cusp.ac.uk on Zygmunt Bauman, nostalgia and visions of the future in Stoke-on-Trent.

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RECORDING: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums by Kids in Museums on cademy.io This is a recording of a session which took place on Zoom on Thursday 3 July 2025. Are you interested in developing programmes and exhibits with LGBTQ+ content for children and families? About this…

🌈 New webinar recording: Engaging children and families with LGBTQ+ content in museums

Learn how museums can enable kids and their grown ups to engage with new topics in a safe space - and perhaps, to also see their experiences reflected back.

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Memory Studies in India "Memory Studies in India" published on 28 Apr 2025 by Brill.

New pub: Memory Studies in India

This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, exploring how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge.

@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2025 Trailer

⚡️Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Programme & bookings are LIVE!

Discover Glasgow for free this September! Scotland’s largest free heritage and community festival returns from 18 - 21 September. Full programme: glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk

Check out our 2025 trailer:
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Call for Speakers In November, we’re hosting the Museums & Social Media Summit, exploring how museums can harness the power of social media to engage audiences, build their brands and tell stories. We are now inviting…

🎤Call for Speakers!
MuseumNext buff.ly/0sPlThj is inviting proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore the future of museum work for their upcoming Forecast Summit for December 2025!
The event will dive into the trends shaping the future of museums. #museum #future #museumnext

Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social

For colleagues following us here who may have missed the emails - please sign the petition against terms in the Hybrid Working Policy (specifically requiring staff to work on campus ≥50% of their time) speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/hybrid-worki...

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Beyers explores strategies of commemoration in the Apartheid Museum & District Six Museum in SA. He highlights contrasts between the role of objects where curation attribute meaning to these no longer present & those used to incite a spirit of solidarity:

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YouTube video by University of Exeter Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...

📢Upcoming #SummerSchool in Digital #CulturalHeritage!

Are you a PhD student interested in how the digital age is reshaping our understanding of memory, heritage, and history? Join Tallinn University for a 3-day summer school!

🔗For more information: bit.ly/3IRTdaF

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Congratulations to our PhD candidate @megomahony.bsky.social on her recent publication titled “Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum” in @memorystudies.bsky.social!

⬇️ Read the full research article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Very interesting paper by Fraccaroli & Simonetto (@psimonetto.bsky.social) which explores LGBTQ + archival practices in Latin America and highlights that archives share but also contest the meaning and materiality of memory of how LGBTQ+ people are remembered:

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Had so much fun with it!!

*NEW SERIES ALERT* - EXCITED to announce Bloomsbury's new memory studies series: 'Critical Memory Studies', ed. Lucy Bond, Rick Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan & Jessica Rapson. Working in the area or know people that are? We'd love to hear from you! DM me for more info.

Who do I know/ who should I know who is interested in open-air and living museums in any national context? I'm looking for practitioners, academics, and collaborators for a new project!

My PhD thesis - Memory and Museum Community Engagement - is available online!

The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects:

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A large room full of people dancing together. A band is playing on stage, the band members are wearing tartan trousers and kilts and playing drums, guitar, and a violin.

“This project will support the sector in developing exciting and innovative relationships between ICH communities and cultural organisations; this is the first project to take this approach, and has potential to be genuinely transformative for living heritage in Scotland”.

🤝 Our new project, Protection Through Connection: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland, aims to raise the profile of Scotland’s living traditions by building stronger relationships between cultural and heritage organisations and communities that maintain ICH.

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Delighted to talk publishing, public writing, and sociological R&D with @aminghaziani.bsky.social and Doug Hartmann in the new issue of @contexts.org.
link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Imaginary Queer Prison: The Possibilities and Limitations of ‘Queering’ the Prison

My full and final PhD thesis can now be accessed online. This is an alt format thesis that explores safety in queer spaces, LGBTQ+ experiences in women's prisons and the concept of 'queering' the prison
researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

An adult with light skin, long brown hair, and a dark blue coat views posters, t-shirts, and photos relating to LGBTQIA+ life in Scotland on display at the Living Memory Association in Leith.

🌈 This Pride Month, explore a resource where Sacha Coward explores the stereotypical portrayals of LGBTQ+ stories and how museums can embrace inclusive, thoughtful, and family-friendly ways of representing LGBTQ+ lives.

Find out more: buff.ly/QHLusGa

Insightful paper about community-based museums of memory; Diana Ordóñez Castillo writing "...these museums challenge the space of enunciation in constructing memory, raising questions about who speaks and what is spoken about"
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