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Please see below the INTERCOM 2014- Call FOR PAPERS. We are looking forward to an interesting and thought provoking conference and hope to see many of you there. We will be continually updating the website with more information about the conference at www.intercom.museum
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INTERCOM&FIHRM 2014 - The Social Impact of Museums
1 - 4 May 2014
Taipei, Taiwan
CALL FOR PAPERS!
21st century museum management is confronted with many social challenges. Museums have to be more active in trying to reconsider their social value so that they can fulfill their duty of social responsibility. The International Committee on Management of the International Council of Museums (INTERCOM) together with the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) will discuss The Social Impact of Museums and underlying challenges in contemporary museum management in three key themes:
1. Museum Value and Valuation
2. Social Memories and Equality Empowerment
3. Social enterprise and working with communities
The aim of the conference is to use the museum as the platform for social harmony and develop our international network of museums and related organizations in three days of stimulating debate, networking opportunities and study visits in Taiwan. Full details on the three key themes can be found below.
Call for proposals
We would like to invite you to submit your proposal to speak at the conference. We wish to look at recent and current examples of progressive work in museums or related organizations. You can submit proposals for case studies, workshops, panel debates, under any of the above themes. Proposals should be no more than 300 words. In addition, you are asked to submit a short biography of about 150-200words.
All papers must be in English.
The deadline is 25 January 2014.
Bursary Scheme
INTERCOM will be aiming to offer bursaries to delegates from low GDP countries. Information about a bursary programme for the conference will be announced separately.
For further details on the conference, please contact INTERCOM at the address below.
If you have any further queries, please contact INTERCOM Secretary Berit Fruelund Kjaerside at [log in to unmask] or FIHRM Coordinator Francoise McClafferty at [log in to unmask]
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Conference Organisers: ICOM-INTERCOM, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, Chinese Association of Museums, National Taiwan University of Arts, Federation of International Human Rights Museums
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The Social Impact of Museums - Description of key themes
1. Museum Value and Valuation:
Owing to the continuous changing of political, economic and social environments, the relationship between museum and the public would also confront different challenges. What are the values and missions of museum, and how to review its function and influence? The following three subheads will respectively discuss the value and mission of museum in contemporary society, management challenges museum is confronting due to times change, and derive new management thinking
Museum Management and New Challenges
Valuation of Museum Value
2. Social Memories and Equality Empowerment:
As the important field of conceiving times culture and base of community recognition, museum is open for the public and thus ought to actively respond to the political, gender, racial and faith conflicts of the society and ensure that everyone has the right to express himself of herself and to be respected at the same time. In the following three subheads, this article will respectively discuss how a museum could realize social justice, guard human rights and ensure accessible cultural accesses:
Museum and Social Justice
Museum and Human Rights
Museum Accessibility
3. Social enterprise and working with communities
Intersectional integration and value innovation are ways for contemporary museums and public institutions to actively realize social responsibility. In the following three subheads, this article will respectively discuss social practice of enterprises, the roles and functions culture and art could play, and the cooperation between museum and community:
Museum, Business and Social Enterprise
Art Learning in Museum
Museum and Community
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