Speakers

There will be a fantastic range of speakers from all over the world speaking at the FIHRM conference 2011.


See the preliminary programme (word doc)

Keynote speakers

  • Dr David Fleming OBE, Director, National Museums Liverpool
  • Professor Gerald Pillay, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of Liverpool Hope University
  • Angela Melo, Director of the Division of Human Rights, Philosophy and Democracy, UNESCO

Confirmed speakers

  • Paul Adams, Community Engagement Officer, Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Liverpool
  • Michaela Alfred-Kamara, Education Officer, Anti-Slavery International
  • Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum, National Museums Liverpool
  • Bonita Bennett, Director, District Six Museum, South Africa
  • Dr. Jennifer Carter, Assistant Professor in the Museum Studies program at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Canada
  • Adele Chynoweth, Curator, National Museum of Australia, Australia
  • Jennifer Ciardelli, Program Coordinator, Civic and Defence Initiatives, 202.479.9714 National Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Dr Zahava D. Doering, Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal and Senior Social Scientist, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
  • Richard Freedman, Director, South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Emily Fuggle, Research Officer at the Imperial War Museum, London
  • Michael Gondwe, Curator/Education Coordinator, National Museums of Malawi, Malawi
  • Amy de Joia, Executive Director of Development and Communications, National Museums Liverpool
  • Cristina Lleras, Art and History Curator, Museo Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
  • John McCarthy, Pupil Support Worker at the Enterprise South Liverpool Academy
  • Victoria Okoloagu, Education Officer, National Museum Lagos, Nigeria
  • Jennifer Orange, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
  • Tracy Puklowsi, General Manager of National Services Te Paerangi, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
  • Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool
  • Lucina D. Shayo, Education Officer, Museum and House of Culture, Tanzania.
  • Nguyen Thi Bich Van, Director, Vietnamese Women's Museum, Vietnam
  • Jasmine Tunstall, Education Programme Team Leader of Social History and Art, Waikato Museum, New Zealand
  • Nicholas Wolpe, CEO of the Liliesleaf Trust, South Africa

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