The Organising Committee
Susana Sanchez-Gonzalez
PhD Candidate in Museology, Institute for Cultural Practices (ICP), University of Manchester, UK.
Susana's research focuses on the role that people's emotional bonds with books may play in visiting experiences in book exhibitions. Susana works as Special Collections Reading Room Co-ordinator at the John Rylands Research Institute in Manchester and has a wealth of experience working in reader development and audience engagement across museums and libraries in the UK and Spain. Susana is member of the Books & Audiences Network Group (BANG) at CENL and editor of Cultural Practices, the magazine of the ICP, UoM.
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Camille Van Vyve
FRS-FNRS PhD Candidate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Camille’s research is supervised by Prof. Laurence Brogniez (ULB) and Prof. David Martens (KU Leuven). Her work centers on the patrimonialization of literature in exhibitions and the museographical strategies that are currently being used to disseminate the literary heritage to a wider audience. Her investigations draw on a number of contemporary exhibitions on literature held at various institutions across Belgium, France and Switzerland. As a member of the RIMELL Network (Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur la Muséographie et l’Exposition de la littérature et du Livre) and the PatrimoniaLitté group, she regularly shares her findings during conferences and talks.
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email: camille.van.vyve@ulb.be
Sanna-Mari Niemi
PhD Candidate at the University of Helsinki’s Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society.
Her dissertation project “Spatial and Fictional Storytelling in Contemporary Museum Exhibition Narratives” is an interdisciplinary research combining theories of comparative literature and museum studies. Niemi is a member of the European PhDnet for Literary and Cultural Studies and her dissertation is jointly supervised between the University of Helsinki and the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She has several years of practical experience in the museum field.
Niemi has recently written two peer-reviewed chapters about detective fiction in museum exhibitions.
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email: sanna-mari.niemi@helsinki.fi
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