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Consider pitching an article showcasing innovative strategies, describing case studies, and research that advance linguistic equity in museums.

Potential topics include:
-Global perspectives on multilingual museums
-Multilingual access programs & evaluation
-Second language acquisition in museum learning
-Indigenous languages & culturally sustaining pedagogy
-Linguistic diversity beyond programming
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From Black English to Sign Language, from code-switching to translanguaging, we want to hear how museums around the world are moving beyond monolingual norms and embracing multilingual approaches in programs, interpretation, and institutional culture.
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For Translating Museum Education

We’re seeking articles on multilingualism in museum education for a special issue exploring how linguistic diversity transforms visitor engagement and belonging.

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We welcome challenges, critiques, provocations, and confrontations.

Potential topics include:
-Trans methodology
-Trans labor in museums
-New strategies for interpreting trans content
-Intersections with race, indigeneity, disability
-Anti-colonial approaches

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There's a gulf between the theory discussed in dissertations and the practice conducted within museum walls. We seek to bridge this gap by inviting a variety of trans museum professionals to offer the insights they have gleaned in their careers and their visions for the future of museum practice. ⬇️

For Trans Museology:

We’re seeking articles on trans methodologies in museum education for a special issue, which will put a variety of perspectives from transgender museum professionals in conversation with one another.

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This position plays an essential role in promoting the organization and its publication, meeting the needs of MER members, supporting and advancing MER’s equity and inclusion work, and, in doing so, furthering scholarship in the field of museum education.

The OM attends monthly virtual Sustainability Team meetings, quarterly board meetings, and an annual retreat (virtual or in-person), reporting on membership analytics, and supporting other MER projects.

The role reports to the President of the MER Board of Directors, and is a highly collaborative position that liaises with other board members, the JME’s publisher (Taylor & Francis) and paid contractors (including the JME Co-Editors and especially with the Communications Manager).

The Museum Education Roundtable (MER) seeks a part time contract Operations Manager (OM). This role oversees the organization’s operational activities, administrative functions, and contributes to its membership strategy which supports MER’s primary product: the Journal of Museum Education (JME).