Dear colleagues:

ICME has the pleasure of announcing that titles and 
abstracts accepted for presentation during the ICOM-ICME 
annual meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, July 10-12 2006
are now availble on the ICME website 
http://icme.icom.museum

The following abstracts have been accepted for 
presentation at "Connections, Communities and Collections" 
in Miami Beach:

Kassaye Begashaw (Ethiopia) "Heritage Management in the 
21st century with special emphasis on Museum and Community 
Connections"
Peter Bjerregaard (Denmark) "The Materiality of Museum 
Politics: Reflections on objects and agency in 
contemporary museum practice"
Jennifer Bonnell & Darryl Leroux (Canada) "Exploring 
Difficult Knowledge: Two Case Studies of Swedish Museum 
Pedagogy"
Hassoum Ceesay (Gambia) "Working With Communities: Cuts 
Cost, Improves Relevance"
K.K. Chakravarty (India) "Museums for demuseumization"
Annette Fromm (USA) "Museums And Communities As Seen In 
The Profession And In The History Of ICME"
Galia Gavish (Israel) "The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court 
Museum and community relations"
Viv Golding (UK) "Recollection and the UK Museum: Object, 
Image and Word"
Joanne Hyppolite (USA) "The Haitian Community Arts Project 
at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida"
Landing Jarjue (Gambia) "Kachikally Museum And 
Communities"
Baerbel Kerkhoff-Hader (Germany) "Museums for a Region: 
Politics - Structures - Results"
Daniel Kipkorir (Kenya) "Connections, Communities and 
Collections: Kabarnet Museum in Kenya"
Joy Kuriakose (India) "The changing role of museums in 
demuseumization"
Helle Maaslieb & Signe Jantson (Estonia) "Digital 
Collections: Options, Problems And Solutions"
Aaron Maluwa (Malawi) "The Role Of Museums In Addressing 
Community Needs In The 21st Century"
Michael L Murray (USA) "The Museum Grounds as Fairground: 
Creating Heterotopia in the Rockland County Folklife 
Festival"
Lidija Nikocevic (Croatia) "Discourses of continuity and 
acceptance in Istria: collections of a disappearing 
community and of an immigrant community"
Daniel Winfree Papuga (Norway) "Connections and 
collections through sixty years: ICME 1946-2006"
Leif Pareli (Norway) "Indigenous Communities and Their 
Museums: The Sami Example"
Alireza Gholinejad Pirbazari & Mona Alishahi (Iran) "The 
Role of Museums as Discussion Forums for Presentation the 
cultural-historical Potentials of cities"
Anthony Shelton (Canada) "Retotalizing Culture. Breathing 
the Intangible into Museum Practice"
Roya Tagiyeva (Azerbaijan) "Serving the needs of the local 
Community"
Kaingu Kalume Tinga (Kenya) "Connections, Communities and 
Collections: The Significance and Symbolism of Sensitive 
Cultural Objects"
Gene S. Tinnie (USA) "Miami's Historic Virginia Key Beach 
Park: A Case Study of Community Vision and Collaboration"
Alexandra Trumbull (USA) "Peopling the Powwow: Community 
Involvement in a Cultural Diorama"

The final program should be available on the ICME website
and distributed in ICME news by mid-June.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION AND ACCOMODATION

ICME secretary (and local organizer) Annette Fromm sends a
reminder that there is still space available for
participation in the meeting. However, anyone wishing to
register for rooms at the two conference hotels should
register NOW, since the romms that have been reserved for
ICME go on the open market SOON.
See http://museumsnett.no/icme/icme2006/index.html#info
for details

Read more about the conference at http://icme.icom.museum

Regards from
Daniel Winfree Papuga
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ICME - International Committee for Museums and Collections 
of Ethnography
International Council of Museums

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