July 22-26, 2002
Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center
Bellagio, Italy
Conference Program
Session I: Museums, Global Public Spheres and Transformations of the Exhibitionary Complex
From the Exhibitionary to the Dialogic Complex?
Tony Bennett, The Open University, United Kingdom
Comunidades de sentido/comunidades de sentimiento: globalización y el vacio museal
Gustavo Buntinx, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo, Peru
The Authority of the Object in the Age of Digital Simulation
Martin Hall, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Curating Local/Global Interventions: Liberating Spaces to Reimagine the New (Improved!) World Order
John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University and Museum of Chinese in the Americas, United States
Session II: Traveling and Transforming Institutions
One Hundred Years of an Argentine Anthropology Museum
José Antonio Pérez Gollán, Museo Etnográfico, Argentina
Has the Time Really Come for Museum Culture in West African Societies?
Joseph Adandé, Université Nationale du Benin
Transforming Museums on Post-apartheid Tourist Routes
Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape and Post Graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies, South Africa
Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia
Howard Morphy, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Australia
Session III: Communities & Encounters
Community Museums and Globalization
Teresa Morales, Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca, Mexico
Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation: Histories, Possibilities and Limits
Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape and District Six Museum, South Africa
Learning from the Local: Moving Towards the Global
Kathy Halbreich, Walker Art Center, United States
The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices
Fred Myers, New York University, United States
From Groundbreaking to Breaking Ground: Museums, Audiences, and Community
Connie Wolf, Jewish Museum San Francisco, United States
Session IV: Technologies and Sites of Value, Display, and Memory
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University, United States
In Transit: Musing on Museums from Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Ingrid Muan, Reyum Gallery, Cambodia
Symbolic Bookends: Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Emerging Museums of Slavery in the United States
Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Inside the Landscape Machine: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the South Western Kruger National Park
David Bunn, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Session V: Final Discussion
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