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SCHEDULE

 

 

 

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

 

09:00-11:00 CAMOC Board Meeting (for members of the Board)

10:00-11:30 Registration 

 

Welcoming refreshments

 

11:30-12:00 Opening welcome speeches (max. 5 min. each)

 

Chair: Irina Smagina (Head of  the International  Department of the Museum of Moscow)

 

Vladimir Tolstoy (ICOM Russia President, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on culture and arts)

Mikhail Bryzgalov  (Director of the Cultural Heritage Department of the  Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation)

Alexander Kibovskiy (Moscow Government Minister, Head of the Department of Culture)

Alina Saprykina (Director General of the Museum of Moscow)

Suay Aksoy (Chair of the Advisory Committee of ICOM)

Marlen Mouliou (Chair of CAMOC)

Ian Jones (Honorary Executive Secretary of CAMOC)

 

12:00-12:45   Keynote speech on the main theme of the conference.

Migration and Museums

by Professor Morris J. Vogel

President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum

 

12:45-14:00       Lunch break

 

14:00-15:00       A visit at the Museum of Moscow. Guided tour

 

15:00-18:00       Session 1 on Theme 1: Migration, cities and city museums 

 

 

Chair: Suay Aksoy (Chair of the Advisory Committee of ICOM) and Mikhail Gnedovsky (Member of the Board of ICOM Russia, member of the Board of Trustees of the European Museum Forum and leading analyst at the Moscow museum development center)

 

  • Diana Pardue (USA), “Connecting Cultural Heritage Through Migration Museums”

  • Chris Zisis (Germany), “Representing Migration History in Museums/Exhibitions”

  • Lieve Willekens (Belgium), “Your Story is Our Story”

  • Guido Vaglio Lauren (Italy), “Turin Earth. City and new migrations (2010 – 2011)”

Discussion 

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

 

  • Kirsten Ergholk (Denmark), “The inclusion of different migrants in the suburban museum” 

  • Layla Betti (Italy), “The relationship between immigrants and their host city: Genova and Rome, two cases study”

  • Sascha Pries (Germany), “Heimat-museums revisited” 

Discussion

 

18:00-19:00 Session 2: Ignites Part A

 

Chair: Layla Betti (CAMOC Secretary) and Polina Zhurakovskaya (Senior Researcher at the International Department of the Museum of Moscow)

 

  • Anna Ulfstrand (Sweden), “On the Road: unacompained children telling their stories”

  • Djalalitdin Mirzaev, Rano Ernazarova (Uzbekistan), “Museums of Termez: city-migrant and city of migrants”

  • Irina Karpenko (Russia), “City museum and local society: involving groups in different projects”

  • Jelena Savic (Portugal), “Feeling at home in Portugal: two creative cities and their Serbian immigrants”

  • Maria Helena Versiani (Brazil), “Social inclusion in museums: the role of historical research”

  • Sylvie Durand (Canada), “Music and social history: the coming together of two histories”

Discussion

 

19.00 Guided visit to the Bolshoy theater 

 

21.00 Reception at the Museum of Archeology.

 

Thursday, 3 September 2015

 

9:00-12:30         Session 3 on Theme 2: City Museum as a Memory Centre and a Place of Inclusion

 

 

Chair: Marlen Mouliou (CAMOC Chair) and Alexander Ostrogorsky (Head of the Educational Department of the Museum of Moscow

 

9:00-9:45           Key-note speech

by Dmitry Poletaev,

Director at the Migration Research Center:

“Urban migration museum as a platform for cultural integration of different groups of citizens”

Discussion

 

9:45-11:15     Session 3 on Theme 2: City Museum as a Memory Centre and a Place of Inclusion 

  • Jakob Ingemann Parby (Denmark), “The theme of migration as a vehicle for museum change” 

  • Tina Rodhe (Sweden), “A museum for everyone – the relevant museum”

  • Sophie Perl (Germany), “’Local Chats’: An Inclusive Exhibition in a Berlin City Museum”

  • Elif Çiğdem Artan (Germany), “Bibliothek der Alten: Keeping memories alive!”

  • Javier Jiménez Fígares (Canada), “How can museums build citizenship. Place-making, social involvement and migration”

Discussion

 

11:15-11:45       Coffee break

 

11:45-13:30        Session 4 on Theme 2: City Museum as a Memory Centre and a Place of Inclusion

 

Chair: Maria-Ignez Mantovani Franco (Chair of ICOM Brazil, CAMOC Vice-Chair) and Joana Monteiro (CAMOC Board Member, Museum of Lisbon) 

 

  • Marilia Bonas Conte (Brazil), “The Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo: engaging communities and sharing expertise”

  • Jenny Chiu (Japan),“City Museum, City Memory, and People of the City”

  • Sayoko Ueda, Tsuyoshi Nishiyama, Masakage Murano (Japan).  ”Creating a ‘Local’ Ecomuseum in the City of Kyoto, Japan”

  • Gulchachak Nazipova (Russian Federation). ”The role of migration in the history of the city of Kazan: the museum aspect”

  • Alina Saprykina (Russian Federation), "The museum of the city as a starting point for initiatives related to the development of the city" 

Discussion

 

13:30-14:30       Lunch break

 

14:30-15:30     Session 5: Ignites Part B’

 

Chaired by: Afsin Altayli (CAMOCnews Editor) and Elena Solozobova (Head of the Publishing Programme of the Museum of Moscow)

 

  • Foteini Aravani (UK), “The concept of place and space of the city of London in Video Art Games“

  • Mariana Marinova (Bulgaria),“Sofia and migration waves during the IX – XI centuries.”

  • Volkan Atılgan Emek & Gürkan Sabri Şakrak (Turkey), “The Sinop City Museum Project”

  • Sabina Veseli (Albania),“Tirana, a capital without a city museum”

  • Patrizia Schettino (Italy), “From utopia to a real museum”

  • Eugenia Bitsani (Italy),“Migration memory, cultural heritage: a vehicle for the intercultural identity of a city”

  • Xingli Wang (China), “Hui-chow salt merchants created Yangchow City prosperity”

  • Mimoza Dushi (Kosovo), “Home” for now or “Home” for life. Migration memories of Kosovan Albanian migrants in West European Countries (via skype)

  • Naila Rahimova (Azerbaijan), “Memory and migration in Azerbaijan”

Discussion

 

15:30-17:30       Workshop 1: Redefining the city museum

Co-ordinated by Marlen Mouliou

  • One introductory presentation by way of example by

Joana Sousa (Portugal), The Museu da Cidade - Museu de Lisboa

  • The actual workshop

 

18:00 Visit to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

The most famous example of contemporary museum design in Moscow (Ralph Appelbaum) in the monument of industrial architecture (this constructivist Bus Garage was designed by artist Konstantin Melnikov and structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov in 1926).

18.15 Guided tour

Refreshments

 

19.00 Coffee break

 

19.30 Presentation and work-shop from the Tolerance Centre

20.10 Discussion on cultural inclusion

Special guest: Petra Müller, German Politician (FDP)

 

Friday, 4 September 2015

 

9:00-9:45           Key-note speech

by Eugene Tartakovsky

Senior Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University School of Social Work:

“Between Sending and Receiving Societies: Hopes, Challenges, and Paradoxes of Modern Immigration”

 

Chaired by: Ian Jones (Honorary Secretary of CAMOC) and Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven (Project Director Russia and Central Asia and Head of the Moscow office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation) 

 

9:45-11:30        Session 6 on Theme 3: City museums as places of debate and social involvement in the changing city

 

  • Nicole van Dijk (Netherlands), “City museums as places of debate and social involvement in the changing city” 

  • Elif Çiğdem Artan (Germany), “Bibliothek der Alten: Keeping memories alive!”

     

  • Marie-Paule Jungblut (Switzerland), Make the Museum a Social Hub for different social groups

  • Louisa Nnenna Onuoha (Nigeria), “Lest We Forget: Nigeria’s Brazilian Quarters and the Mandate of Preserving Public Monuments in Nigeria”

  • Norikazu Shimizu (Japan), “Memory of Internal Migrants in Coalfields”

 

11:30-12:00       Coffee break.

 

11:45-13:45       Workshop 2: City museums and netoworking: Ways of co-creating collaborative projects

Co-ordinated by Afsin Altayli

  • One introductory presentation by way of example by

Christine De Weerdt, Lars De Joengher (Belgium) “Models – imagining to scale”

  • The actual workshop

 

14:00-15:00       Lunch break.

 

15:00-16:30       CAMOC General Assembly

 

17:00-19:00       Visit to the Museums of Moscow Kremlin. Guided tour

 

19.30-22.30 Reception at the Museum of Moscow. Concert

 

Saturday, 5 September 2015

 

Optional:

Attention! We kindly ask you to write about your wishes regarding optional tours until August 20

 

One-day trip by bus to New Jerusalem.

The New Jerusalem Monastery is a unique male monastery. It was founded in 1656 as a patriarchal residence on the outskirts of Moscow.

New Jerusalem Museum of History, Architecture and Art, was founded in 1920 and until 2014 was located on the territory of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. Now it has a huge, modern building and works as a cultural cluster.

Guided tour. Reception.

60 min from Moscow

from € 100

http://www.njerusalem.ru/mainpage.php

 

One-day trip by bus to Abramtsevo museum.

The estate was laid in the mid of 18th century and soon became famous due to its owners and guests – Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Repin, Mikhail Vrubel, Valentin Serov and many others.

Guided tour. Reception.

120 min from Moscow

from € 100

http://www.abramtsevo.net/eng/

 

One-day trip by bus to Yasnaya Polyana

Wonderful, picturesque place where Leo Tolstoy was born, lived most of his life and finished his days. He wrote there War and peace, Anna Karenina etc.

Guided tour. Reception.

3 hours from Moscow

from € 100

http://ypmuseum.ru/en

 

One-day trip by train to St.Petersburg

Hermitage , Russian museum, Peter and Paule fortress, Kunstkamera,  the Museum of Political History of Russia in the Mathilda Kseshinskaya House, The Historical Center of the city is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage

8-12 hours by train, 4 hours by Sapsan

Reception at the Museum of Political History of Russia

from € 200

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/?lng=en

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/russian-museum/

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/peter-paul-fortress/

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/kunstkammer-museum-antropology-ethnography/

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/museum-political-history/

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