40th ICOFOM SYMPOSIUM / 25th REGIONAL ICOFOM LAM MEETING

ICOM LAC ANNUAL ASSEMBLY

“The politics and poetics of museology”

La Habana, Cuba

25th-29th September 2017

PLACE: Centro para la Interpretación de las relaciones culturales entre Cuba y Europa (Interpretation Centre for Cultural Relations between Cuba and Europe). Palacio del Segundo Cabo, Plaza de Armas.

Sunday, 24th 17:30 – Board meeting (pre-symposium) – ICOFOM and ICOFOM LAM

Monday, 25th

9:00 - 10:00 – Registration

10:00 - Opening Ceremony

Welcome remarks

ICOM Cuba President, Dr. José Linares

Delegate of Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe ORCALC

(Regional Office of Culture to the Latin America and Caribbean) – Katherine Müller

ICOFOM President, Dr. François Mairesse

ICOFOM LAM President, Prof. Olga Nazor

ICOM LAC President, Mr. Samuel Franco

11:15 – Welcome speech - Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler

Director of Oficina del Historiador and Honorary President of ICOM Cuba.

12:00 – Coffee break 12:15 – Keynote Speech – Prof. Gladys Collazo, President of National Council of Cultural

Heritage, Ministry of Culture. “Development of museology in Cuba”. 14:00 – Lunch 15:00 – Keynote Speech – Dr. Alissandra Cummins 16:20 – Keynote Speech – Dr. Márcia Regina Romeiro Chuva 19:00 – Welcome cocktail

Tuesday, 26th 9:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session (Segundo Cabo, salón principal)

Session 1 – The politics of Museology and Museum Studies Sheila K. HOFFMAN – “Practicality and Value: Historical Influences to Museum

Studies in the United States”

Karen BROWN – “Museology vs Museum Studies: Pedagogical Strategies in Museum History, Theory and Practice”

Bruno BRULON SOARES; Anna LESHCHENKO – “Museología en contextos coloniales: llamado para la descolonización de la teoría museal”

10:45 – Coffee break 11:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session

Session 2 – Museology and the politics of Museums Olga ZABALUEVA – “Museology and Museum-making: Cultural Policies and

Cultural Demands” Brita BRENNA – “The politics of museum quality and participation” Renaud CHANTRAINE – "«Queer Museum»: an antithetical idea?”

12:45 – Opening of the poster session* 14:00 – Lunch

15:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session

Session 3 – Museology and the politics of Museums Ayanda NGCOBO – “The politics of representation in South African museums” Sheila K. HOFFMAN – “The Early Politics of US Museums: Nation Building, New

Frontiers and ‘The Arts’” Saena SADIGHIYAN – “Representaciones del conflicto Irán-Iraq en los museos de

Teherán: una poética de la guerra, una política de la paz” Maai ORTÍZ – “Museos militares: dispositivos exhibitorios y el borramiento de la

memoria de la lucha social en México” 17:15 – Pause 17:30 – ICOM LAC / ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Joint Session

“Studies of the theory of museology in the academic training centres in the Latin America and the Caribbean” (Segundo Cabo, salón principal) Presented by François Mairesse and Olga Nazor

18:45 – ICOFOM board meeting

ICOM LAC Assembly 20:00 – Special concert program dedicated to the symposium.

Teatro Martí. Calle Dragones entre Prado y Zulueta. La Habana Vieja (Martí Theatre, Dragones street between Prado and Zulueta, The Old Havana)

Wednesday, 27th 9:00 – Keynote Speech – Dr. Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno 10:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session

Theme: Revisiting the Classics: Russio Year 2017

Session 4 – Revisiting the Classics: Waldisa Rússio Guanieri Priscilla Arigoni COELHO – “Os processos de formação profissional em São Paulo e

o viés acadêmico desenvolvido por Waldisa Rússio Guanieri” Marcela Maria Freire SANCHES; Teresa C. Moletta SCHEINER – “Novas formas de

museus, novas experiencias: entre popularizar ou difundir o patrimônio de Manguinhos nas ações territorializadas do Museu da Vida/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil”

Lucinéia Maria BICALHO – “Dimensão interdisciplinar no patrimônio de museus universitários”

11:30 – Coffee break 11:45 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session Session 5 – Revisiting the Classics: Waldisa Rússio Guanieri

Bruno BRULON SOARES; Ana VALENTINO; Denis LIMOEIRO – “Práticas, ensino e reflexões de Waldisa Rússio Guarnieri: um caminho experimental em direção à Museologia”

Inês Gouveia e Priscila FAULHABER – “Waldisa Rússio Camargo Guarnieri: a política no campo museológico brasileiro”

Fábio Adriano HERING - “A atualidade do pensamento de Waldisa Russio para um estudo museológico do conceito filosófico de presença”

Zita Rosane POSSAMAI – “Waldisa Rússio, a criança e o objeto: considerações sobre os museus pedagógicos e escolares (França e Brasil, Século XIX)”

14:00 – Lunch 15:00 – ICOM LAC / ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM round table: “The importance of Blue

Shield for heritage protection in the Latin America and Caribbean” (Segundo Cabo, salón principal) and bi-regional collaboration project EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project Presented by Samuel Franco, Karen Brown and Kate Keohane (Segundo Cabo, Salón principal)

FREE NIGHT Thursday, 28th 10:00 - ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session

Session 6 – Poetics of Museology and Museums Teresa SCHEINER – “Museología – Poética, Política y Ética: dimensiones

transformadoras de las relaciones entre Humano y Real” Elizabeth WEISER – “Writing to be Read: Crafting a Poetic Museology” Karla GODOY; Sarah LUNA – “Museums and cities’ aestheticization of policies:

controversies between public spaces touristification and the social role of museological institutions”

11:45 – Coffee break 12:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Session

Session 7 – Political and ethical transformations in Museums and Museology Yun Shun Susie CHUNG – “The Poetics and Geopolitics of Communication and

Non-Profit vs. Income Generator of the Function of Museums” Yves BERGERON – “Conservator or museologist in North American museums.

Geopolitical issue” Janine MENEZES Y OJEDA – “The political conquest of the Maori in the cultural

repatriation context of musealized collections” 13:45 – Lunch 15:00 – ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM Assembly 18:00 – Closing Session ICOFOM / ICOFOM LAM farewell speech and notices ICOM LAC farewell speech and notices 20:00 - Farewell activity

Friday, 29th Tours: Shuttle service (Meeting place: Palacio del Segundo Cabo) National Museum of Fine Arts Tour around the Old Havana historic site

* Posters:

Silvia PACIFICO – “From the power of the elites to the new poetics of hospitality” Manuelina Maria DUARTE CÂNDIDO – « Le muséologue en tant que travailleur

social et politique chez Waldisa Rússio : implications pour la muséologie brésilienne contemporaine »

Marion BERTIN – « Objets des mers du Sud en France métropolitaine : géopolitique, appropriation, identité »

Freire RODRÍGUEZ SALDAÑA – “Geopolítica de los Museos y las Museologías: Necropolítica y reconciliación en el siglo XXI”

Mónica RISNICOFF DE GORGAS – “Museología y Política, poniendo en cuestión las ideologías eurocentristas”

Monique FÉLIX BORIN – “La historia en disputa: los embates políticos en la construcción del proyecto patrimonial y museológico del ‘Museu da História do Estado de São Paulo’”

Sophie PATILLON – “Política y memoria de la última dictadura militar en Argentina, el caso del Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA”

Anna ZAKIEWICZ – “Museology in Poland”

Marcela Maria FREIRE SANCHES; Teresa Cristiina M. SCHEINER – “Museo de la Vida al servicio de las comunidades locales (?) Teoría y Praxis de la Museología en perspectiva crítica, en el contexto de América Latina”

Laura EVANS – “Reclaiming The Body, Reclaiming The Museum: Feminist Embodied Learning in Art Museums”

Organization local committee Dr. José Linares, ICOM Cuba President

Lic. Moraima Clavijo, ICOM Cuba Vice-President

Lic. Gladys Collazo, CNP President

Lic. Lesbia Méndez, Director of Heritage OHC

Lic. Margarita Suárez, Vice-Director Heritage OHC

Lic. Jorge Fernández, Director of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Event contacts

Agency “Caribbean a la Carte”: E-mail: caribbean@caribbeanalacarte.com Cell phone: (+53) 5 281 9945