School of Museum Studies

Amy Jane Barnes

ajb108@le.ac.uk

Research interest/area

The collection, display and interpretation of Chinese Cultural Revolution-era material culture in contemporary British museums.

Employment history

August 2008-January 2009 (part-time)
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG)
Research Assistant

2004-2005

Cambridge Project Management

Specialist Reader for the Benezit Encyclopedia of Artists translation project.

2000-2001

Percival David Foundation of Chinese Arts, SOAS

Curatorial Assistant

Publications

Book Reviews

Barnes, Amy Jane. 2009. ‘Championing the twentieth-century Chinese artist’. In Art History., 32 (3).

Barnes, Amy Jane. 2009. ‘Bushell, Yetts and the mystery of the missing photographer: A Curatorial detective story’. In Art History., 32 (3).

“Chinese Silk” by Shelagh Vainker, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, 2005.

Article

Barnes, Amy. “China in Britain: The representation of twentieth-century Chinese art and culture in contemporary British museums” in Museological Review, 9, 2003.

Exhibition Catalogue

Pierson, Stacey with Barnes, Amy. A Collector’s Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor. London: Percival David Foundation, 2002.

Monograph

Barnes, Amy, “Catalogue Entries” in Pierson, Stacey (ed). Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. London: Percival David Foundation, 2002

Academic Activities

2005 - 2006

Member of the conference organisation committee, 'Material Cultures, Identities and Inclusion'

2005-2006

Member of the research seminar organisation team, School of Museum Studies

2005-2007

PhD Student Representative

2006-2008

Student Representative, Faculty of Arts Ethics Committee

2007-2008

Member of the Editorial Committee, Museological Review

Poster Presentations

June 2006

'Displaying the Communist Other: Perspectives on the exhibition and interpretation of Chinese Cultural Revolution- era material culture'

Festival of Postgraduate Research, University of Leicester

Conference/seminar papers

December 2008
Material Worlds, Leicester
‘Displaying the Communist Other.’

March 2007

School of Museum Studies Research Seminar Series

'China Displayed: "glittering curiosities" from the Celestial Kingdom in Victorian Britain'

March 2006/May 2007 and 2008

School of Museum Studies, Research Week

Research paper

Conferences attended

December 2005

'Chinese People, Chinese Things', Brighton Pavilion

February 2006

'Material Culture, Identities and Inclusion', University of Leicester

April 2006

'The Museum: A World Forum', University of Leicester

January 2007

'The Cold War Expo' Symposium, Victoria and Albert Museum

January 2007

'Heritage of the Recent Past' colloquium, first in the series of 'Valuing the Historic Environment' colloquia, University of Leicester.

June 2008
NaMu, Workshop 5, University of Leicester

1st September 2008
British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester

21st November 2008
Cold War Culture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

15-17th December 2008
Material Worlds: A Conference in Honour of Professor Susan Pearce, University of Leicester

Teaching and related experience:

I have designed and led tutorials, and acted as Second Examiner for oral examinations on the MA Museum Studies/Art Gallery Studies courses, School of Museum Studies. I have worked on developing and editing modules for the MA Interpretive Studies and MA Museum Studies programmes, by distance-learning.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

 

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