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Date and location09 &#8211; 10 March 2017Museu Nacional de Arte Contempor&#226;nea &#8211; Museu do Chiado, LisbonArgumentThe purpose of the international conference The Museum Reader is to analyse and systematise new methods and paradigms, trends and different practices and ways of imagining the role of art institutions in the context of the present-day art scene.There will be particular emphasis on the following themes:Museums in the transition from the 20th to the 21st centuryThe museum and the neoliberal concept of cultureThe paradigmatic transformations of art institutions in the context of the current social, economic and political orderInstitutional critique as investigation of the framework and functioning of art institutionsThe museum as a place of negotiation and conflictThe potential of institutions and the new institutional sphere: new Institutionalism, radical museology, critical museologyCritique and experimentation in art institutionsInstitutional and non-institutional practices within the museumChallenges for museums and art institutions inside new art practicesThe future identity of art institutionsSubmission guidelinesAbstracts (of no more than 300 words), accompanied by a short bio (appr. two paragraphs) should be sent to the members of the organizing committee, at themuseumreader2017@gmail.comby January 13, 2017.Participants will be notified by the end of January, and the conference program will be published in mid-February. The languages of the conference are English and Portuguese.A selection of papers from the conference will be published as a special number of the Wrong Wrong magazine (wrongwrong.net, ISSN 2183-5527).For all questions regarding administration and practical matters, please contact Patr&#237;cia Melo (themuseumreader2017@gmail.com)More information: http://themuseumreaderconference.weebly.comOrganizing committeeSandra Vieira J&#252;rgens [IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa]Em&#237;lia Tavares [Museu Nacional de Arte Contempor&#226;nea &#8211; Museu do Chiado]Scientific committeeDavid Santos &#160;[Dire&#231;&#227;o Geral do Patrim&#243;nio Cultural]Fernando Jos&#233; Pereira &#160;[Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto]Helena Barranha [Instituto Superior T&#233;cnico, Universidade de Lisboa]Idalina Conde &#160;[ISCTE &#8211; Instituto Universit&#225;rio de Lisboa]Joana Cunha Leal [IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa]L&#250;cia Matos [IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto]Margarida Brito Alves [IHA, DHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa]Maria Jo&#227;o Gamito [Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, ISCTE &#8211; Instituto Universit&#225;rio de Lisboa]Nuno Crespo [IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa]Raquel Henriques da Silva &#160;[IHA, DHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa]Sandra Leandro [IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Universidade de &#201;vora]OrganizationMuseu Nacional de Arte Contempor&#226;nea &#8211; Museu do Chiado: www.museuartecontemporanea.ptInstituto de Hist&#243;ria da Arte, FCSH/NOVA:www.iha.fcsh.unl.ptThis event is funded by national funds through FCT &#8211; Foundation for Science and Technology, within the strategic project UID/PAM/00417/2013