[can-talk] ICOM Conference Concurrent session: ICOM Cross Cultural Task Force

ICOM General Conference 2007

Vienna

Concurrent session: ICOM Cross Cultural Task Force 

Theme. Transformations: Museums and Cultural Diversity

 

Time. 09.00 - 13.00 Wednesday, 22nd August  2007

Venue. NIG II, University of Vienna, Dr.Karl-Lueger Ring 1, 1010 Vienna 

 

Introduction

The integration of tangible and intangible heritage in museums continues to be a challenge that needs to be addressed worldwide.  This requires a fundamental approach to connecting collections and communities in all their diversity.  This concurrent session brings together directors of major museums and researchers across the world to discuss and debate methodological concerns based on their first hand experience in addressing heritage diversity and cultural diversity through the museum as critical cultural space. It is envisaged that their perspectives with be based on case studies at the level of the individual museums as well as national and regional experiences.  

 

Purpose

The aim of this session is to interrogate critical issues that need to be addressed in bringing collections and their communities together within the universal and local contexts of museums, with a particular focus on cultural diversity.  

 

Convenor: Amareswar Galla, Chairperson, ICOM Cross Cultural Task Force and Professor of Museum Studies, the University of Queensland, Brisbane

Moderators: W. Richard West, Jr. Director, National Museum of the American Indian, The Smithsonian Institution; Tereza Scheiner, Coordinator - Postgraduate Program in Museology and Heritage, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Pascal Makambila, Conservateur en chef des musées, Brazzaville

 

Program

 

09.00-10.45

 

ICOM as an Inclusive Global Organisation 

*     Alissandra Cummins, President, ICOM and Director, Barbados Museums and Historical Society, Barbados

 

Regional Diversity and Cultural Diversity

*     Kapila Vatysayan, Vice Chair Indian National Cultural Council, Ministry of Human Resource Development of India, New Delhi (To be confirmed)

*     Museology and Diversity in Latin America - Nelly Decarolis, Director, Museums of Buenos Aires

*     'What Museums Africa' - Dealing with Diversity - George Okello Abungu, CEO of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants and Kenya's Rep. to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee and Lorna Abungu, former Executive Director, AFRICOM

*     Small island Countries and the Challenges pf Dealing with Pacific Diversity - Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Directeur, Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak, Centre culturel Tjibaou, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie

 

11.00 -13.00pm

 

Museums, Diversity and Community Engagement

*     Steven Engelsman, Director General, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden

*     Corazon Alvina, Director General, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila

*     Hongnam Kim, Director General, National Museum of Korea, Seoul

*     Jatti Bredekamp, CEO, The Iziko Group of National Museums, Cape Town

Rethinking the Nature-Culture Binary in Museums - A Critique

*     Michel Van-Praët, Conservateur général du patrimoine, Inspection générale des Musées
Direction des Musées de France, France 

 

Intergenerational Challenges - Youth Perspectives

*         Lina G Tahan, Lebanon/UK

*         Bruno César Brulon Soares, Brazil

*         Kim L Selling, Australia/Sweden

 

Anticipated Outcomes

*     A framework for critical engagement in addressing museums, universal heritage and cultural diversity

*     Draft material for developing Strategic Recommendations for the General Conference 

*     Action Plannning for the ICOM Cross Cultural Task Force

 

Contact: Amareswar Galla, a.galla at uq.edu.au 

 

 

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Dr Kim Selling

Project Officer

Cross Cultural Task Force

International Council of Museums, Paris

 

School of English, Media Studies and Art History

The University of Queensland

Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia

tel: +61 7 3346 9804  fax: +61 7 3365 2799

email: museum at uq.edu.au <mailto:museum at uq.edu.au> 

 

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