Conference Programme
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Full Programme
Programme FIHRM 2017 (download PDF)
Day 1 (November 28, Tuesday)
8:00 Accreditations
9:30 Opening ceremony
10:00 Museum tour
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Lecture “Persistence of forgetting / insistence of memory”
Xavier Antich (Catalunya, Spain)
12:00 Speakers session
“Towards a language of transformation in the Human Rights Museums”
Jennifer Bergevin (UK)
“Here’s where the story ends: my transition from curator to activist”
Adele Chynoweth (Australia)
“Dilemmas in narrating the African Diaspora in América”
Lucio Menezes Ferreira (Brazil)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Lecture “Building museums in the midst of armed conflict”
Martha Nubia Bello (Colombia)
15:15 Speaker Session
“Dirty war and its impact on Mexican laws”
Elias Robles (Mexico)
15:35 Interview
“Peru, violence, extermination and narratives on barbarism”
Rocío Silva Santisteban (Peru)
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote speech “Challenges and dilemmas in storytelling”
David Fleming (UK)
19:30 Welcome cocktail
Day 2 (November 29, Wednesday)
9:00 Lecture “Our museums: building commitment to human rights”
Ricardo Brodsky (Chile)
9:45 Speakers’ session
“Museums and social educators”
Gabriela Aidar (Brazil)
“Nation and democracy at iconic national monuments”
Torleif Hamre, Anne Lovas (Norway)
“How can museums build commitment with public audiences?”
Chihjui DiDi Lin (Taiwan)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Lecture “Giving visibility to the invisible”
Javier Trímboli (Argentina)
12:00 Speakers’ session
“Imagining a museum of Democracy¨
Escuela Superior de Museologia de Rosario (Argentina)
“The SP-64: a tool from the Memorial da Resistencia de Sao Paulo”
Marilia Bonas (Brazil)
“Prisoners of science”
Colectivo Guías (Argentina)
13:00 Lunc
14:30 Lecture “Building legacies for the future”
Patricia Tappatá Valdez (Argentina)
15:15 Announcing FIHRM 2018
15:25 Interview
“What are we talking about when we speak of Democracy Museums?”
Jane Smith (Australia)
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Workshop
“Digital art: suggestions for new forms of audience engagement”
Claire Taylor, Ailsa Peate (UK)
18:15 End of working day
19:30 Tango show
Day 3 (November 30, Thursday)
9:00 Lecture “Narratives of pain and hope”
Federico Lorenz (Argentina)
9:45 Speakers’ session
“The tasks of memory today”
Viviana Nardoni (Argentina)
“The Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct South Africa”
Dawn Robertson (South Africa)
“Uses of Holocaust’s memories through a museum”
Wanda Wechsler (Argentina)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Lecture “Let me tell you a story”
Jocelyn Dodd (UK)
12:00 Speakers’ session
“A museum with no home: building a museum outside in”
Adam Levin (Australia)
‘The Canadian Museum for Human Rights”
Corey Timpson, Stuart Murray, Jacques Lavergne (Canada)
13:00 Conclusions
Closing ceremony
14:00 Boat ride on the Paraná River