Museums (em)Power: Provisional Programme

Day 1: Thursday, 13th September 2018

08:30 – 09:30	Registration and Refreshments
09:30 – 10:00	Opening Remarks Professor Sandra H. Dudley, Head of School, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
10:00 – 11:45	SESSION 1: POWER & IDEAS
10:00 – 10:15	Revealing and Forgetting: Learning from Histories of ‘New Institutionalism’ Jennifer Warren, University of Arts London
10:15 – 10:30	Tracing the Emergent: Collaborative Arts; Social Enterprise and the Regeneration of the Urban Kristian Gath, Birmingham City University
10:30 – 10:45	Museum-Making Processes: Subject to Power, Tool to Empower Aikaterini Vlachaki, University of Leicester
10:45 – 11:00	Cities, Museums and Development: Cultural Policy, Governmentality and the Urban Revitalization of the Recife Neighborhood (Recife, Brazil) Glauber Guedes Ferreira de Lima, Federal University of Goiás
11:00 – 11:15	What are Korean Museums Doing with Intangible Heritage? Gee Sun Hahn, University of Leicester
11:15 – 11:45	Questions and Discussion with All Presenters
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Museums and the Power to Effect Change Professor Richard Sandell, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:45	SESSION 2: POWER & COMMUNITIES
14:00 – 14:15	Our_Objects: Disability, Museums and Social Media Jenni Hunt, University of Leicester
14:15 – 14:30	Narrative Meaning-Making in the Museum: Empowering Young Children through Social, Self-Initiated Learning Danielle Carter, Tangible Education
14:30 – 14:45	IPOP: A New Pattern Shift for Audience Research to Empathize & Empower Audiences Siyi Wang, Zhejiang University / George Washington University
14:45 – 15:00	The Power of Material Culture: Challenging Neutrality through Museum Artefacts Cesare Cuzzola, University of Leicester
15:00 – 15:30	Questions and Discussion with All Presenters
15:30 – 15:45	Break
15:45 – 17:30	SESSION 3: POWER & AUDIENCES
15:45 – 16:00	Visitor Voices: Audience Research as a Tool for the Transforming Museum Inge Kalle-den Oudsten, University of Amsterdam
16:00 – 16:15	Inclusive Memory: Museum Education to Promote the Creation of A New Shared Memory Antonella Poce and Maria Rosaria Re, University of Roma TRE
16:15 – 16:30	Engaging Diverse Audiences Online through An International Language Chiara Bartolini, University of Bologna
16:30 – 16:45	(Online) Digital Storytelling for Self-Directed Museum Learning: Why Empower the Voice Of the International Student-Visitor to the Ethnographic Museum? Zoi Tsiviltidou, University of Leicester
16:45 – 17:00	(Online) Diversion and Inclusion in the Museum Denisse Brito, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block
17:00 – 17:30	Questions and Discussion with All Presenters

Day 2: Friday, 14th September 2018

09:30 – 10:00	Registration and Refreshments
10:00 – 11:45	SESSION 4: POWER & SPACE
10:00 – 10:15	Differentiating Between Decisions and Non-Decisions: Implications for Museums Sean Blinn, Jacobus Vanderveer House and Museum
10:15 – 10:30	The Fame Game: America’s Fascination with Hall of Fame Museums Harriet Reed, Victoria and Albert Museum
10:30 – 10:45	The “Urbex” Exhibition at the City Museums of Pavia, Italy: A Photographic Journey around Dismissed Areas Silvia Salvaneschi, Decumano Est cultural association, Pavia (Italy)
10:45 – 11:00	The Musée de l’Homme Has Lost Touch with Its History: Rewriting Colonial History in Paris Dr Angela Stienne, University of Leicester
11:00 – 11:15	Power, Place, and Plasters: How Does Museum Space Affect Our Attitudes towards Casts? Abbey Ellis, University of Leicester / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
11:15 – 11:45	Questions and Discussion with All Presenters
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Balancing Power: Users and Museums Dr Zahava Doering, Senior Social Scientist, Thinc Design, Editor Emerita, Curator: The Museum Journal
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	SESSION 5: POWER & COLLECTIONS
14:00 – 14:15	Make It Relevant: A Case Study of Muybridge Week Festival at Kingston Museum Seoyoung Kim, Kingston University / Kingston Museum
14:15 – 14:30	Challenging the Narrative through Art Madeline Burkhardt, Rosa Parks Museum, Troy University Montgomery
14:30 – 14:45	(Online) Red de Museos Aysén: Towards a Museum Network That Brings People Closer (Aysén Region, Chile) Anamaría Rojas-Múnera, Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Patagonia
14:45 – 15:00	(Online) ‘Porto M’ in Opposition to the Category of the ‘Migration Museum’: A denial of the Museum in A Postcolonial Perspective Martina Locorotondo, University of Leicester
15:00 – 15:30	Questions and Discussion with All Presenters
15:30 – 15:45	Break
15:45 – 16:00	Prizes for Best Presentations and Best Images
16:00 – 16:30	Closing Remarks