ICOFOM Study Series

ICOFOM Study Series Editorial Board

Rédacteur / Editor:

Bruno Brulon Soares

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil

Comité Éditorial / Editorial Board (2019-2022):

Yves Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montreal, Canada
Bruno Brulon Soares, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Supreo Chanda, University of Calcutta, India

Yun Shun Susie Chung, Southern New Hampshire University, USA
Ann Davis, Former Director, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Canada

Annette B. Fromm, Florida International University, USA

Scarlet Galindo, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

Anna Leshchenko, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia

François Mairesse, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3, CERLIS

Jesús Pedro Lorente, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Daniel Schmitt, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France

Markus Walz, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Elizabeth Weiser, Ohio State University, USA

Zheng Yi, Fudan University, China

Comité d’avis / Senior Advisory Committee:

Maria Cristina Bruno, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Bernard Deloche, Professor Emeritus, Université de Lyon 3, France

André Desvallées, Conservateur général honoraire du patrimoine, France

Peter van Mensch, Professor Emeritus, Reinwardt Academie, Netherlands

Martin Schaerer, Past President of ICOM Ethics Committee, Switzerland

Tereza Scheiner, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anita Shah, Museum consultant, India

Tomislav Šola, Professor Emeritus, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Secrétariat / Secretariat:

Sécrétaire général / general secretary: Anna Leshchencko

Articles en français : Marion Bertin

Articles in English: Elizabeth Weiser

Artículos en español: Scarlet Galindo

ICOFOM Study Series (ISS)

ICOFOM Study Series is a peer-reviewed, international journal for museum scholars, professionals, students and researchers, that examines up-to-date issues in the field of Museology. Museology (or museum theory) is here defined following the Key concepts of museology as comprising all the efforts at theorization and critical thinking about the museum field.

The ICOFOM Study Series is theme-based. Topics for papers and for the annual symposium are defined and described by the ICOFOM board and posted on the ICOFOM website six months before the symposium.

Objective

ICOFOM Study Series enables the International Committee for Museology to serve as a forum for a theoretical research and discussion that deepens understanding of museology from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The article to be selected for publication will meet the following criteria:

·         Adhere to the topics identified in the Provocative paper that is posted on the ICOFOM website six months before the symposium and lists the different ways the topic could be treated. Abstracts should respect these topics.

·         Be original and unpublished. Be theoretical and analytical rather than descriptive. Papers that merely focus on description or report of some museum or museological activities will not be accepted. The theoretical approach should be explicitly specified in the abstract:

    § why is the subject important for museology? 

    §  what theoretical perspective is chosen?

    §  how would this contribute to the museological discussion?

·           Follow the guidelines (see below)

Process

ICOFOM Study Series has been a platform for museological discussions since 1983, following a tradition established by its predecessor Museological Working papers (MuWoP). At different times in its history it contained conference proceedings published before ICOFOM’s symposia or articles published afterwards. Since 2007, the growing number of ICOFOM members and of proposals as well as increasing professionalism led to a process of selection by peer reviewing.

Since 2014 the ISS has been issued one year after the symposium once all submitted manuscripts have undergone double-blind review. Potential authors need to submit an abstract for a blind peer-review. After receiving approval, they are invited to present their papers at the ICOFOM’s annual symposium (which is not an obligation), followed by submission of the full article to the second round of a peer-review. Participation and presentation of a paper at the conference does not guarantee the publication of the elaborated article.

To submit an article, the author does not have to be an ICOFOM member.

Publication Frequency: annually

ISSN: 2309-1290 (Print)

Citation style: APA (http://www.apastyle.org/)

Guidelines for articles are available in English, French and Spanish.

Articles and correspondence should be sent to the following email:

icofomsymposium@gmail.com

ICOFOM Study Series (1983-2017)

ISS 01 (1983): Methodology of Museology and Professional Training

ISS 02 (1983): Museum - Territory - Society. New tendencies / New practices

ISS 03 (1983): ADDENDA

ISS 04 (1983): ADDENDA 2

ISS 05 (1983): ADDENDA 3

ISS 06 (1983): Collecting today for tomorrow

ISS 07 (1984): Collecting today for tomorrow

ISS 08 (1985): Originals and Substitutes in Museums

ISS 09 (1985): Originals and Substitutes in Museums

ISS 10 (1986): Museology and Identity

ISS 11 (1986): Museology and Identity

ISS 12 (1987): Museology and Museums

ISS 13 (1987): Museology and Museums

ISS 14 (1988): Museology and Developing Countries - help or manipulation?

ISS 15 (1988): Museology and Developing Countries - help or manipulation?

ISS 16 (1989): Forecasting - a museological tool? Museology and Futurology

ISS 17 (1990): Museology and the Environment

ISS 19 (1991): The Language of Exhibitions

ISS 20 (1991): The Language of Exhibitions

ISS 21 (1992): Museological Research

ISS 22 (1993): Museums, Space and Power

ISS 23 (1994): Object - Document?

ISS 24 (1994): Museum and community I

ISS 25 (1995): Museum and community II

ISS 26 (1996): Museology and Art (New!)

ISS 27 (1997): Museology and Memory (New!)

ISS 28 (1997): Museology and Memory (New!)

ISS 29 (1998): Museology and Globalisation

ISS 30 (1998): Museology and Globalisation

ISS 31 (1999): Museology and Philosophy (New!)

ISS 32 (2000): Museology and the Intangible Heritage (New!)

ISS 32 (2000) Supplement: Museology and the Intangible Heritage (New!)

ISS 33 (2002): Museology and Presentation - original or virtual?

ISS 33 (2003): Museology - an instrument for unity and diversity?

ISS 33 supplement (2004): Museology and Intangible Heritage II

ISS 34 (2003): Museology - an instrument for unity and diversity?

ISS 35 (2005): Museology and Audience

ISS 35 (2006): Museology and History

ISS 36 (2007): Museology and Techniques

ISS 37 (2008): Museums, Museology and Global Communication

ISS 38 (2009): Museology - back to basics

ISS 38 supplement-eng (2009): Museology - back to basics

ISS 38 supplement-fr (2009): Museologie - revisiter nos fondamentaux

ISS 39 (2010): Deaccession and Return of Cultural Heritage - A New Global Ethics

ISS 40 (2011): The Dialogic Museum and the Visitor Experience 

ISS 41 (2012): Empowering the visitor: process, progress, protest

ISS 42 (2013): The special visitor: each and every one of us

ISS - Hors-série (2014): Tibute to André Desvallées 

ISS 43 a (2015): New trends in Museology

ISS 43 b (2015): New trends in Museology

ISS 44 (2016): Museology exploring the concept of MLA (Museums-Libraries-Archives)

ISS 45 (2017): The predatory museum

ISS 46 (2018): The Politics and Poetics of Museology

ISS 47 (2019): Museology and the Sacred