International Council of Museums – ICOM
ICOM INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY – ICMAH
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ANNUAL ICMAH CONFERENCE - 2015
WITH THE SUPPORT OF HELLENIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Athens, 11-14 November 2015
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PROGRAM
International Conference, Thursday 12th and Friday 13th November 2015, at the Acropolis Museum, Athens
The professional and ethical dimensions of archaeology
Steering Committee: Myriame Morel-Deledalle, Présidente de l’ICMAH, &
Vincent Négri, Chercheur CNRS – ISP (ENS Cachan)
With the support of :
Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs, ICOM General Direction, National Historic Museum in Athens (Greece), National Institute of Archaeological Research – INRAP (France), Archaeology Museum Directorate of History Geneva (Switzerland), Ancient Arles Museum (France), French School of Athens.
Program:
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
▪ 6.00 p.m. – Welcoming participants to the Hellenic National Committee office:
Registration and welcome cocktail
Thursday, November 12, 2015
▪ 9:00 a.m.- Welcoming participants at the Acropolis Museum
- Registration
▪ 9:30 – Welcoming words
- Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis, Acropolis Museum President
- Mrs Teti Hadjinicolaou, ICOM Greece President
- Mrs Suzanne Choulia-Kapeloni, Director of Museums at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
- Mrs Elena Korka, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
- Mrs Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Alternate Secretary General of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
- Mrs Myriame Morel-Deledalle, ICMAH President
▪ Session 1 (10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.) - Archaeology, history and identity
Moderator : Vincent Négri, CNRS Researcher – ISP (ENS Cachan)
- Ancient ruins, national ideologies
Dimitris Plantzos, Professor, University of Athens
- Archaeology and Greek identity in Greek legislation
Daphné Voudouri, Professor, University of Pantheon and Associated of Social and Political Sciences (Athens)
Pause
- Construction and deconstruction of myths,
Vincent Guichard, Director General of the European Archaeological Center of Bibracte in Mont Beuvray (France)
- Delving absolutely? Dilemmas and ambiguities of Israeli archaeology. The example of the David’s City in the eastern part of Jerusalem annexed
Marius Schattner, journalist (Israel)
- Around the exhibition “Imagining the Balkans” Identities and Memory in the Long 19th century
Philippos Mazarakis, Curator at the National History Museum
- Archaeology and Ideology in Israel
Debate
Guided tour of the Acropolis Museum under the guidance of Professor Pandemalis
▪ Session 2 (2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) - Public access and dissemination of knowledge
Moderator : Alexandra Bounia, Professor of Museology at the University of the Aegean, Greece
- Ancient Arles Museum : from Excavation to Musealisation
Claude Sintès, Director of Ancient Arles Museum, Arles (France)
- Deltebre I, search and dissemination of research results
Gustau Vivar Lombarte, Director of the Centre subaquatic Arqueologia de Catalunya, Girona (Spain)
- Conservation and exhibition of osteological collections and human remains
Vincent Negri, CNRS Rsearcher (ISP-ENS Cachan, France)
- Restoration and anastylosis of archaeological monuments
Professor Bouras Charalambos, Architect, Emeritus Professor of National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- The museum in the city,
Jean-Yves Marin, Director of Museums of Art and History, Geneva
Debate
Visit to the Benaki Museum and dinner
Friday, November 13, 2015
▪ ▪ Session 3 (9.30-12.30) - Ownership and claim of Archaeological Heritage
Moderator: France Desmarais, Director of Programs and Partnerships ICOM
- The Italian claims to American museum,
Tullio Scovazzi, Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
- The dynamics of public ownership of the archaeological movable heritage in French Heritage Law Project
Benoît Kaplan, deputy director of Archaeology, Ministry of Culture, France)
- Acquisition policy and traceability of archaeological collections,
Markus Hilgert, Director of Vorderasiatisches Museum im Pergamonmuseum, Berlin (Germany)
- Greek claims to American and European museums
Eleni Pipelia, Archaeologist, Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
Session 4 (2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) - Ethics of archaeological research
Moderator: Vincent Guichard, director of the European Archaeological Center of Bibracte (France)
- Ethical Dimensions of preventive archaeology, the French example,
Patrick Pion, Scientific Director at the National Institute of Archaeological Research - INRAP, France
- Excavations of the Martyrs Square, Algiers, and “in situ” musealisation
Farid Ighilahriz , director of the National Archaeological Research Centre , Algiers (Algeria)
- Ethics of archaeological research in Africa
Eric Huysecom, Director of the Archaeology Laboratory and settlement in Africa (APA), University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Break
- Ethical issues on underwater archaeology
Michel L'Hour, Director of the Department of subaquatic et submarine archaeological research, France
The project of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology of Piraeus (Greece)
Angeliki Simosi, Director of the Museum
▪ Conclusions
Yannis Tzedakis, ICMAH former President
Myriame Morel-Deledalle, ICMAH President
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Saturday , November 14, 2015
• Hellenic National Committee office:
▪ 9:30 a.m.– 11:00 a.m. - ICMAH General Assembly and presentation of the General Conference of ICOM, Milan 2016
• Visits to Athens Museums
• 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. National Archaeological Museum
• Afternoon: Optional visits to museums and sites in Athens
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