Conferences and Seminars

Other Conferences/Seminars

The following websites have conference papers relevant to museums, audience research, social research and evaluation.

• Art Museums: Sites of Communication
  http://www.nga.gov.au/sitesofcommunication/index.cfm
  This symposium is an initiative of the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery and is being held on 14-15 March, 2003 at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• Australian Association for Educational Research (AARE)
  http://www.aare.edu.au/index.htm
  AARE facilitates contact between educational researchers and encourages and actively lobbies for development of all aspects of educational research. The site contains a very large selection of full text papers about educational research (refereed and non-refereed) from AARE annual conferences.
• Australasian Evaluation Society
  http://www.aes.asn.au/
  The Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) is a professional organisation for people involved in evaluation. A selection of papers from the 2002 conference are available here http://www.AES.ASN.AU/conference/cfindex.htm
• Canadian Evaluation Association
  http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/
  The Canadian Evaluation Association is a Canada-wide non-profit bilingual association dedicated to the advancement of evaluation theory and practice. Information about their conferences is available here http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/site.cgi?s=4&ss=1&_lang=an
• Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group, Museums Australia (EVRSIG)
  http://amol.org.au/evrsig/
  Papers from the EVRSIG 1998 conference held in Canberra, Visitors Centre Stage: Action for the Future, are available here
  http://www.amol.org.au/evrsig/evrconf.html
• Museums Australia
  http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/profopp.htm
  Information and papers from Museums Australia conference
  Proceedings from the Museums Australia Queensland State Conference held in 2001, are available here
  http://www.maq.org.au/programs/conf01/
• Museums and the Web
  http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html
  Archives & Museum Informatics have organised an annual international conference about museums and the web since 1997. There have been several papers presented about evaluating websites. Conference programs and a selection of papers are available on this website
• The Learning Conference
  Learning Conferences are held annually in different locations around the world. These conferences are dedicated to look at learning issues across a wide range of contexts.
  Details of the 2003 conference
  http://learningconference.com/Background/
  Previous conference details and lists of published papers
  http://learningconference.com/Other-Conferences/