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 C. Moletta Scheiner, Professor,
School of Museology, University of Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO; 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, [log in to unmask] 

 

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