CAMOC – COMCOL – ICOM/Europe Joint Conference 2011, Berlin, Germany
*31 October – 3 November 2011* **
*Theme: **“*Participative Strategies in Capturing the Changing Urban World”
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to remind you that *early bird registration is due to expire
on 30 August 2011.* We thus encourage you to *REGISTER NOW* and take
advantage of this offer that will save you up to 20% of the required
conference fee price.**
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CAMOC, the ICOM International Committee for the Collections and Activities
of Museums of Cities has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the
International Conference on "Participative Strategies in Documenting the
Changing Urban World", which they will organize in Berlin, 31 Oct.-3 Nov.
2011.
The first two days of the conference (*October 31st to November 1st,
2011*) will
be organized jointly with the International Committee on Collecting (COMCOL)
and the ICOM Regional Committee for Europe at Dahlem Museums,
Berlin/Germany, under the theme "Participative Strategies".
From *November 2nd to 3rd, 2011* each committee will organize its own
programme and excursion. On November 2nd CAMOC will focus on the
documentation of the changing urban world and will meet at two venues
consecutively; first at the Kreuzberg Museum, and then at the Bookshop Pro
qm, a themed bookshop on the city of Berlin, politics, pop, economic
commentary, architecture, design, art & theory, which is meant to be a forum
for public discussion and movement. For the last day, the Committee will be
hosted at the IFAU (Institut für Angewandte Urbanistik),* *and will organise
a thematic city tour on Berlin architecture and urban development guided by
architects of IFAU.
Final details of the conference including registration form, registration
fee information, hotels, and other issues can be accessed at the CAMOC web
site http://camoc.icom.museum/index2.php
We are confident that the programme of lectures and adjunct activities will
attract your attention, as it promises to offer many opportunities for very
fruitful and insightful discussions. A preliminary programme for each day is
available further below. The abstracts of the papers will be uploaded in our
website in September. So watch out for updates.
For further information regarding the conference and your participation,
please contact Dr. Marlen Mouliou (CAMOC Secretary), at
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We do hope to see many of you in Berlin!
With best wishes,
Suay Aksoy
Marlen
Mouliou
CAMOC Chair CAMOC
Secretary
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*Conference Tentative Programme*
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*Monday 31 October 2011*
**
*JOINT CAMOC, COMCOL, ICOM-EUROPE Meeting*
Venue: Museum of European Cultures (Museum Europäisher Kulturen,
http://www.smb.museum/mek)**
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The programme includes registration, welcome speeches, keynote
presentations, an evening reception at Dahlem Museums and visiting
exhibitions at Museum of Asian Art, Ethnological Museum and Museum of
European Cultures.
Featured keynote speakers include Renée Kistemacker of the Amsterdam
Historical Museum, Professor Franck Eckardt of the Bauhaus University
(Weimar) and Chrischené Julius, Head of the Collections, Research and
Documentation Department of the District Six Museum in South Africa.
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*Tuesday 1 November 2011 *
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**
*JOINT CAMOC, COMCOL, ICOM-EUROPE Meeting*
*Venue*: Museum of European Cultures (Museum Europäisher Kulturen,
http://www.smb.museum/mek)
**
**This is the list of speakers and papers that will be presented during this
day:
Ø *Sharing curatorial responsibility. Are there are any sacred museum
functions that no one but curators can do?* by Kylea Little (Tyne & Wear
Archives & Museums, Discovery Museum, UK)
Ø *Participation and “Othering” in document the present*, by Thomas
Michael Walle (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, Norway)
Ø *Recollecting Europe – together? **Collection strategies and aporia
of today*, by Stefan Krankenhagen (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany)
Ø *The Secrets of our Success: synthesising collections and audience
development at the Museum of Liverpool*, by Zelda Baveystock (National
Museums of Liverpool, UK)
Ø *Red Road** Flats Legacy Project,* by Helen Watkins and Crawford
McGugan (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK)
Ø *The “Stadtlabor” (City Laboratory) as means and medium for
documenting present-day Frankfurt**, *by* *Susanne Gesser and Angela
Jannelli (Historical Museum of Frankfurt, Germany)**
Ø *Country of Cities. An Exhibition for the Centennial of the Austrian
Association of Cities and Towns (Oesterreichischer Staedtebund),* by Otto
Hochreiter (Graz City Museum, Austria)
Ø *Don’t throw pots away*, by Tanja Roženbergar Šega (Museum of Recent
History Celje, Slovenia)
Ø *Collecting contemporary objects of love – and looking for new
partners*, by Jette Sandhal (Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Ø *Doing kinship with pictures and objects – documenting contemporary
practices of family*, by Kathrina Dankl, Mag. Tena Mimica, Lukasz Nieradzik,
Mag. Karin Schneider (Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Vienna,
Austria)
Ø *Who is the curator? : LGBT collecting and identity forming over the
rainbow*, by Eduardo Giménez-Cassina (Museology Master’s candidate at the
Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
*End of the joint meeting!*
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*Wednesday 2 November 2011*
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**
*CAMOC MEETING*
*Morning session at Kreuzberg Museum (**www.kreuzberg.museum.de**)*
*Theme*: a) *Capturing urban change,* b) *Recording and celebrating the
experience of city people with a special emphasis on the experience of
migrants to cities*
Ø Presentation by the staff of the Museum & discussion
Ø Guided tour at the Museum
Ø A selection of papers as follows:
*The role of museum's narrative in documenting process of memory - Polish
experiences*, by Michal Niezabitowski (Krakow Historical Museum, Poland)
*Las Villitas: Neighborhoods and Shared Memories **Community-curated Exhibit
at the City of El Paso’s Museum of History*, by Julia H. Bussinger (El Paso
Museum of History and of El Paso Museum of Archeology, City of El Paso, TX,
USA)
*This Time It’s Personal: City Museums and Contemporary Urban Life*, by
Rainey Tisdale (Independent Urban Historian, USA)
*Understanding of the Asian Culture Complex development in Gwangju within
the city’s changing social and economic environment*, by Geuntae Park (PhD
student at School of Museum Studies,University of Leicester, UK)
*Afternoon session at **Bookshop Pro qm**, **a themed bookshop on the city
of Berlin, politics, pop, economic commentary, architecture, design, art &
theory (**www.pro-qm.de**)* **
*Themes*: a) *Capturing urban change,* b) *Reflecting on urban policy and
regeneration projects*
Ø Presentation by the staff of the Bookshop & discussion
Ø A selection of papers as follows:
*The megacity – an artifact or a palimpsest? The Power and Potential of
Literary Documentary,* by Prachi More (Graduate Student, English Department,
University of Tübingen, Germany)
*Documentation of the present in the post-totalitary societies’ city museums
*, by Marianna Marinova (Sofia Historical Museum, Bulgaria)
*Hybrid Traces in the Urban Context. Documenting the Present of the City*,
by Dimitris Psychogios, Aimila Karamouzi, Elena Antonopoulou, Lila
Mastora(Architect, Researchers, Greece)
*Changing Collections and Embracing the Wider Audience through Inclusive
Practices*, by Agnes Aljas (Estonian National Museum, Estonia)
Ø Visit at the Nikolaikirche (part of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin)
Ø Evening reception at the city hall
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*Thursday 3 November 2011*
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*CAMOC MEETING and EXCURSION*
*Morning session at IFAU - *Institut für Angewandte Urbanistik* (**
http://www.berlin.heimat.de/home/ifau/profil/english.html**)*
*Theme*: a) *Capturing urban change,* b) *Reflecting on urban policy and
regeneration projects*
Ø Presentation by architects of IFAU on current urban regeneration
projects - Discussion
Ø A selection of papers as follows:
*Final title to be confirmed*, A joint presentation by Hong Seungju and Park
Hyeon-wook, (Seoul Museum of History, South Korea)
*Involving citizens: some experiences in European city museums*, by Layla
Betti (Urban Historian, Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, Italy)
*How electronic exhibits can portray such urban topics as change, the human
experience and the decline and regeneration of cities*, by Chet Orloff
(President/Director,
Museum of the City, USA)
*A museum to promote the change: Ivrea as a case-studies*, by Patrizia
Bonifazio (Urban history Lecturer, Politecnico of Milano-Leonardo Campus,
Italy)
Ø Thematic city tour on Berlin architecture and urban development
accompanied by architects of IFAU. During the tour, two more papers will be
presented at city sites that relate to the topic of each presentation
*City** Museums, Museum Cities, Modern Cities*, by Prof. Giorgio Piccinato
(Roma Tre University, Italy)
*In the Emperor´s Garden*, by Mauricio Vicente Ferreira Jr. (Imperial Museum
- Brazilian Museums Institute - Ministry of Culture Brazil)
*End of CAMOC Berlin Conference 2011!*
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