CoMuseum 2023
MUSEUMS AND JUSTICE
8 DECEMBER 2023, EMILIOS RIADIS HALL, THESSALONIKI CONCERT HALL
PROGRAM
DECEMBER 8
11:30 – 15.00 (Eastern European Time)
11:00 – 11:30
Arrivals
11:30 – 11:50
Welcome Remarks
Eugenia Alexandropoulou-Egyptiadou, President, Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Jerry Ismail, U.S. Consul General, U.S. Consulate General in Thessaloniki
Maria Karagianni, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Tourism, Municipality of Thessaloniki
Maria Papaioannou, Head of Arts Greece & Regional Lead Museums Revisited, British Council
Dr Sophia Handaka, CoMuseum Host, Curator of World Cultures, Benaki Museum
11:50 – 12:35
Panel Discussion
Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Accessibility in Cultural Leadership
with
Micah Parzen, CEO Museum of Us, San Diego (U.S.A.)
Skinder Hundal MBE, Director of Arts, British Council (UK)
Annie Fletcher, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IE)
Iro Katsaridou, Director, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (GR)
Moderated by
Lizzy Moriarty, Independent Museum Consultant – Museum Expert, Museums Revisited, British Council (UK)
Q&A
12:35 – 12:55
A Joint Endeavor. The German Restitution of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria | ONLINE
with
Dr Barbara Plankensteiner, Director of the Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg; Co-founder of the Benin Dialogue Group (DE)
The lecture provides a brief overview of the events leading to the restitution of over 1.000 Benin artefacts from five major museums in Germany and the developments following the transferal of ownership in December 2022. To comprehend this distinctive process, it is essential to highlight the crucial significance of these royal treasures, not only for the Edo people, but also for African art and cultural history. Although their iconic legacy as major colonial loot is now undisputed, their aesthetic quality and profound historical and spiritual meaning often go unnoticed.
Q&A
12:55 – 13:40
Panel Discussion
Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Accessibility and the City
with
Dr Kyriaki Oudatzi, Director/ CEO, Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki, Member/ F. Vice President of Hellenic Olympic Academy (GR)
Christos Galilleas, Artistic Director, Thessaloniki Concert Hall (GR)
Aggeliki Giannakidou, Founder & President of Ethnological Museum of Thrace (GR)
Vicky Papadimitriou, Vice President, Thessaloniki Convention Bureau – Managing Director, SYMVOLI Conference & Cultural Management (GR)
Moderated by
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, Head, UNESCO Chair on Futures Research–FORTH | President of the Board of Administration, MOMus (GR)
Q&A
13:40 – 13:55
Permanent Institution in the Service of Society: Museums as Sites of Restorative Justice
with
Giovanna Brambilla, Art Historian, Consultant in Pedagogies for Cultural Heritage, Member of the Knowledge Community of CCW (Cultural Welfare Center-Turin) (IT)
Can Museums become places to mediate conflict and not just contents related to works of art? The talk will retrace six steps through which was born the formulation and implementation of a project that sees restorative justice finding a primary place in cultural institutions. This happened thanks to a collaboration between heritage education experts and art historians, on the one hand, and humanistic mediators, linked to the thought of Jacqueline Morineau, on the other. The concept of the project has its roots in the perspective of an anthropocentric museum, a museum that qualifies as a place that cares equally for people and objects by investing in the relationship between the two. In such a museum, works-precisely by virtue of their real significance in art history-become a device capable of giving substance to possible new points of view, providing a space where the offender, the victim, and the community can work together.
Q&A
13:55 – 14:40
Panel Discussion
Accessibility in Action
with
Sarah Schleuning, The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Dallas Museum of Art (U.S.A.)
Paraskevi Salavgia, Creator of self help Documentary ”Two sides of the same world”, Disability counselor (GR)
Roxanne Giampapa, Head of School, Pinewood American International School, Vice President for the International School, Anatolia College (GR)
Moderated by
Angelos N. Vassos, Director “Now” Creativity Platform (GR)
Q&A
14:40 – 14:50
Closing Remarks
with
Dr Sophia Handaka, CoMuseum Host, Curator of World Cultures, Benaki Museum (GR)
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