International Conference: ‘Museums and Communities – The Heritage Of Belonging’
This conference focuses on the interaction between museums and communities. In times of mobility and change, history museums play an important role in societal questions of social cohesion, identity and belonging. In search of their roots, people turn to heritage. History is popular as never before and it surfaces in all contemporary media. At the same time, the communication era offers new possibilities to form communities, based on common interests and preferences or popular and corporate culture. Museums in general, as part of the public sphere, are an important tool in this dynamic process of heritage formation and the performance of community.
To address these questions related to museums and communities, the Erasmus University Rotterdam organises an international conference in Rotterdamin November 2012. The conference features two keynote speakers. Richard Sandell will explore what happens when museums move away from the impartial narrative and adopt a more activist approach. Kevin Moore will present a paper on the complex relationship between museums and sports and its potential role in community building. In addition, several international experts from the field of museum studies will present fresh insights and new research results on how to engage communities in museums.
To register, send a mail with your name and affiliation to Hélène Verreyke at verreyke@eshcc.eur.nl
Conference Program
9th of November | Chair Prof. dr. Paul van de Laar |
09:00 – 9:30 | Registration & Coffee |
9:30 – 09:45 | Welcome by Prof. Dr. Dick Douwes, Dean of ESHCC and |
Prof. dr. Marlite Halbertsma | |
Session 1: The heritage of belonging | |
09.45 – 10:45 | Hélène Verreyke |
Public participation in the museum. When practice creates meaning | |
10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee |
11:00 – 11:30 | Luciana Aenasoaie |
Let the Walls of History Speak: Constructing European Heritage through the | |
Restoration of Neamt Fortress, Romania | |
11.30 – 12.00 | Louise Anne D. Marcelino |
Making a Shoe Last: Reprogramming the Marikina Shoe Museum and the | |
Historic House of Don Laureano Guevara | |
12.00-12.30 | An Lombaerts & Nadia Babazia |
The Red Star Line connecting past and present | |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 2: Questioning belonging | |
13:30 – 14:00 | Susan Hogervorst |
Musealization of memory. Survivor communities, camp sites and the re- | |
negotiation of the past | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Robin Ostow |
Museums as entrepreneursʼNewJewishin community building. Warsaw | |
Museum: Building a new history and a twenty-first century democracy | |
14:30 – 15:00 | Maloe Sniekers and Stijn Reijnders |
In the Gripʼt ofWantDutrouxtoBelong.Heritage that Doesn | |
15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee |
15:15 – 16.15 | Keynote lecture: Richard Sandell |
Activism and the museum |
16:15 – 16:45 | General discussion | ||
18.00 | Conference dinner | ||
10th of November Chair dr. Stijn Reijnders | |||
Session 3: New heritage communities & New media | |||
09.00 – 09.30 | Registration & coffee | ||
09.30 – 10:30 | Dorus Hoebink | ||
The museum and the performance of community | |||
10.30-11.00 | Jennifer A. Scott & Elissa BlountMoorhead | ||
Building a Community Museum: Using Social Media to Engage Communities | |||
at Weeksville Heritage Center in New York | |||
11.00-11.15 | Coffee | ||
11:15 – 11.45 | Marie Van Cranenbroeck | ||
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ʻactiveʼco | -creator of cultural heritage? | ||
Session 4: How public heritage participation changes the museum | |||
11:45 – 12.15 | Jacqueline van Leeuwen & Hildegarde Van Genechten | ||
“Tell me, what did you gain?” How to assess the creation of value in co- | |||
creative museum projects | |||
12.15 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||
13.00-13.30 | Susan Ashley | ||
A museum of our own. Immigrant museum-making in Canada | |||
13.30 – 14.00 | Ciara Canning | ||
Out in the Open or Out of our Depth? A case study of a museum project | |||
working with homeless people | |||
14:00 – 15:00 | Keynote lecture: Kevin Moore | ||
Museums and sport: the heritage of belonging? | |||
15.00-15.30 | General discussion and concluding remarks | ||
15.30-17.00 | High tea |
Conference Information
Conference venue
The conference will take place at The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). The NAi is situated in the centre ofRotterdam, about 15 minutes walking distance from Rotterdam Central Station. The NAi is part of the Museumpark and is located diagonally opposite Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The NAi can be reached using public transport, with the metro, tram 7 or 20 (to Eendrachtsplein), or bus 32 (to Rochussenstraat).
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (Nai) / Museumpark 25 / 3015 CBRotterdam / http://en.nai.nl/
The organising committee
Prof. dr. Marlite Halbertsma, Prof. dr. Paul van de Laar, Dr. Stijn Reijnders, Dr. Hélène Verreyke, Dorus Hoebink MA.
This conference concludes the Community Museums Past and Present project, which is part of the NWO programme Cultural Dynamics (http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6J8FRJ_Eng). The Community Museums Past and Present project is financed by the VSB foundation.
If you have any questions concerning the conference, accommodation or transport please do not hesitate to contact Hélène Verreyke: verreyke@eshcc.eur.nl
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