ESF Research Conferences

17:00 – 19:00

Registration at the ESF Desk

19.00

Welcome Drink

20.00

Dinner

9:00 – 9:15

Conference Opening
Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester, UK

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
Doors to Knowledge: University collections and museums as intersections between past, present and future

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
“Savage Museums” - The amateur museum as Contact Zone for people, objects and different forms of knowledge

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
Chair: Sally Hughes, Oxford Brookes University, UK

14:00 – 15:00

Ken Arnold, Wellcome Collection, UK
Medicine and Science in the Contact Zone

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

Session III – Assembling Culture
Chair: Comink Collet, Universitaet Goettingen, DE

9:00 – 10:00   

Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney, AU
Thinking (with) museums: From exhibitionary complex to governmental assemblage

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

Session IV: The Contact Zone
Chair: Jennifer Morgan, University of Manchester, UK

9:00 – 10:00

Mary Bouquet, University of Utrecht, NL
The Interim Museum: Putting Objects in a Fresh Light

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
Chair: Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UK

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