ESF-LiU Conference
Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory, Practice
17 - 21 July 2011
Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden
Final Programme |
| Sunday 17 July | |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Registration at the ESF Desk |
| 19.00 | Welcome Drink |
| 20.00 | Dinner |
| Monday 18 July | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Conference Opening |
| Session I – Objects of Knowledge Chair: Maria Toscano, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'l'Orientale', IT | |
| 9:15 – 10:15 | Marta C. Lourenço, University of Lisbon, PT |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Coffee break |
| 10:35 – 10:55 | Suki (r. s) De Boer, VU University, NL Corporate Art Venues as Heterotopias |
| 10:55 – 11:15 | Angela Jannelli, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, DE |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Emma Poulter, British Museum, UK And Carl Hogsden, University of Cambridge, UK Contact Networks for Digital Reciprocation |
| 11:35 – 11:55 | Carabelli Giulia, OKC Abrasevic/abart, BA (Re)Collecting Mostar |
| 11:55 –12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Session II – New Practices | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Ken Arnold, Wellcome Collection, UK |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15– 15:35 | Diana Almeida, University of Lisbon, PT “Writing Challenges: At the Frontiers of the Body,” Celebrating Every Voice |
| 15:35– 15:55 | Rana Ozturk, The National College of Art and Design, IE Curating a Contemporary Art Biennial as a Zone of Encounters: 11th Istanbul Biennial, What Keeps Mankind Alive |
| 15:55– 16:15 | Yannik Porsché, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, DE Representing Migrants’ Identities in Museums. Transnational Knowledge and Memory Constructions at the Intersection of Institutional, Academic and Public Discourse |
| 16:15– 16:35 | Nora Sternfeld, Büro trafo.K, AT Memorials as contact zones |
| 16:35 - 17:15 | Discussion |
| 15:15 - 17:45 | Break |
| 17:45-19:00 | Poster presentation: Informal ‘drop in’ session to have a look at the conference posters and to discuss the posters with their presenters |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 19 July | |
| Session III – Assembling Culture Chair: Comink Collet, Universitaet Goettingen, DE | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney, AU |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Breakand Group Picture |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Marta Caradonna, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT and École des hautes études en sciences sociales, FR The redefinition of the concept of the Ethno-Anthropological Museum in France and in Italy: the theoretical debate and the political strategy |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Larissa Foerster, University of Cologne, DE Contact history in the making: the return of colonial anthropological collections from German museums to Namibia |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester , UK Beyond the contact zone? The Museum of World Culture as a sharing space for dialogue and exchange |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Friedrich von Bose, Humboldt University Berlin, DE The Humboldt-Forum as contact zone? |
| 11:50 – 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Excursion to Arbetets Museum |
| 20:00 | Get together drink & Conference Dinner |
| Wednesday 20 July | |
| Session IV: The Contact Zone Chair: Jennifer Morgan, University of Manchester, UK | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Mary Bouquet, University of Utrecht, NL |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15– 10:35 | Caitlin Gordon-Walker, Trent University, Peterborough, CA The Contact Zone as a Feast for the Senses: Multicultural Nationalism at the Royal British Columbia Museum |
| 10:35 – 10:55 | Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UK Decolonising the contact zone; examining engagement theory in practice |
| 10:55– 11:15 | Philipp Schorch, Victoria University of Wellington, DE Contact Zones, Third Spaces, and the act of interpretation |
| 11:15– 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:15- 13:15 | Lunch |
Session V: Social Inclusion and “Co-Production” in the Museum | |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Anthony Shelton, University of British Columbia, CA and Eithne Nightingale, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Discussion |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Natalia Brichet, University of Copenhagen, DK From contact zones to generative encounters - creating a 'common past' in Ghana |
| 15:20-15:40 | Katarzyna Jagodzinska, International Cultral Centre, PL Spaces that involve. Art museums for social inclusion in Poland |
| 15:40-16:00 | Bernadette Lynch, University of Manchester, UK 'Whose cake is it anyway?': working through conflict and confronting empowerment-lite in the museum-as-contact-zone |
| 16:00-16:20 | Mia Muurimäki, Aalto University, FI Imagining an agonistic museum of contemporary art |
| 16:20-17:00 | Discussion |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Break |
| Session VI – Forward look Chair: Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester, UK | |
| 17:15:18:00 | Luca Basso Perresut, Politecnico di Milano, IT Museums in/of the age of migrations. Trends and forms of a new museographical vision |
| 18:00-19:00 | Discussion |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday 21 July |
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Breakfast and Departure |
