Exhibiting Theory Book Series
Sample Exhibiting Theory volume, front and back covers. Design: Monika Bielak.
Exhibiting Theory is a multi-lingual, open-access book series presenting humanities and social science theory and method relevant for and generated from museum interventions, performances, and curatorial experiments developed in partnerships linking academia with the museum and heritage sector. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars, students, curators, educators, activists, and community members, the books offer creative engagements with theoretical concepts, critical commentaries, and case studies useful to both academics and practitioners working in public cultural institutions and contexts. Each of TTTM’s five research clusters will produce one volume in the series, which is published by Jagiellonian University Press in partnership with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Core, and Columbia University Press.
Individual volumes can be viewed on our forthcoming Resources page once they are published.
team members
Roma Sendyka
Roma Sendyka, PhD, is Associate Professor, Director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures, and teaches in the Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies department at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. She specializes in criticism and theory, visual culture studies, and memory studies. Her focus is on relations between images, sites, and memory, and she is currently working on a project on “non-sites of memory” in Central and Eastern Europe. Sendyka is co-founder of the Curatorial Collective and co-curator of the 2018-19 exhibition “Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust” at the Kraków Ethnographic Museum.
Role: Collaborator
Cluster: National Heritage and Traumatic Memory
Aleksandra Janus
Aleksandra Janus, PhD, is a researcher, curator, and administrator of cultural programs in Warsaw, Kraków, and Berlin, including: Vice President of the Zapomniane Foundation (dedicated to locating unmarked burial sites of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust), co-founder of the Museum Lab training program for Polish heritage professionals, head of the Open Culture Studio, Director and board member of Centrum Cyfrowe (Digital Center), co-founder of the Culture for Climate initiative, Chair of the advisory board to FestivALT/CentrALT center for Jewish art and activism, and a Curator of the Exercising Modernity program.
Role: Collaborator
Cluster: National Heritage and Traumatic Memory
Erica Lehrer
Erica Lehrer is a sociocultural anthropologist and curator. She is Professor in the departments of History and Sociology-Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, and the Founding Director of its Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL). Her publications include Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (2016); Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (2015); Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places (2013); Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (2011), and numerous articles. Her exhibitions include “Souvenir, Talisman, Toy” (2013), and “Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust” (2018-19) with Roma Sendyka, Wojciech Wilczyk, and Magdalena Zych at the Kraków Ethnographic Museum.
Role: Principal Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: National History and Traumatic Memory