Museums fighting for human rights

Inaugural conference: Museums fighting for human rights 15 & 16 September 2010 International Slavery Museum, Liverpool

FIHRM conference programme Tuesday 14 September 2010 Welcome launch of the conference 18.00 20.00 Welcome reception at World Museum Pre-conference registration and welcome drinks Wednesday 15 September 2010 Museums as Active Campaigners 09.00 09.45 Registration and refreshments 10.00 10.05 Opening performance: Eyes on the Prize Vicky Evans Hubbard, National Museums Liverpool 10.10 10.40 Opening address Dr David Fleming OBE, Director, National Museums Liverpool 10.40 11.00 UNESCO Keynote speech Angela Melo, Director of the Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy, UNESCO 11.00 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 11.45 Museums, moralities and human rights Richard Sandell, Director/Head of Department, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK 11.45 13.00 Concurrent sessions Session one: Creating a voice for human rights Location: MMM Lecture Theatre Chair: Brett Mason Setting the stage: Human rights voices and human rights campaigns Judith Dueck, Director: Research Content and Scholarship Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada The Aegis and Role of the first Holocaust Centre on the African Continent Richard Freedman, Director, South African Holocaust Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa Promoting human rights and social justice the Museums of Malawi Michael Gondwe, Curator-Education Coordinator, Museums of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi Session two: Memorialisation and contemporary human rights Location: Anthony Walker Education Centre Chair: Richard Sandell The Struggle for Human Rights, the Public Awareness and the Community Programs Luisa de Pena, Director, Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The Museum of Genocide Victims Attiudes towards Human Rights today Vilma Juozeviciute, The Museum of Genocide Victims, Vilnius, Lithuania The Kigali Memorial Centre Freddy, Umutanguha, Director, Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda, James Smith, CEO, Aegis Trust, UK

13.00 14.00 LUNCH 14.00 15.30 Concurrent sessions Session three: Diversity, social justice and education in human rights museums Location: MMM Lecture Theatre Chair: Kate Craddy From Memory to Action: How Holocaust education can change our response to genocide today Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Director of Research and Projects, Committee of Conscience, US Holocaust Memorial Museum White Bus Action 1945 and experiences what have we learned? Birthe Mueller, House of Humanity, Swedish Red Cross National Centre, Stockholm, Sweden Waikato Museum celebrating cultural diversity Crystal Mann, Concept Leader Social History, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand Session four: Making a difference: campaigning museums Location: Anthony Walker Education Centre Chair: Martin Earring The Atlantic Slave Trade Museographyhistory and memory at stake Krystel Gualde, Head of Conservation, Musée d Histoire de Nantes, Nantes, France The object of culture Françoise Verges, Director for Maison des civilisations et de l unité réunionnaise, President of the Comite pour la mémoire et l Histoire de l Esclavage, Réunion The Virtual Museum of Human Rights Daan Bronkhorst & Nick Verouden, Amnesty International, Amsterdam, Netherlands 15.30 16.00 Coffee break 16.00 16.30 Plenary session - round up of the first day Chair Dr David Fleming OBE, Director, National Museums Liverpool 16.30 18.00 Free time and opportunity to look around International Slavery Museum 19.00 22.00 FIRMH Council Speakers Dinner Free evening for all other delegates

Thursday 16 September 2010 Marketplace of Ideas Workshops Children, Young People and Human Rights Exhibiting Sensitive Histories Active Communities 09.00 09.30 Arrival and Registration 9.30 10.00 Title tbc Keynote Kevin Bales, President, Free the Slaves 10.00 10.30 Coffee Break 10.30 12.15 Children, Young People and Human Rights 12.15 13.30 LUNCH Location: MMM Lecture Theatre Performance by Gateacre Community Comprehensive School Overview of Education activities at National Museums Liverpool Carol Rogers, Executive Director Education, Communities and Visitors Make the Link, Break the Chain Museums working with campaign agencies George Anang a, Plan International UK Do All Indian Live in Thipis: Challenging Antiquated Indigenous American Stereotypes Through Informal Museum Education Martin Earring, Cultural Information Assistant, National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian), Washington DC, USA Holocaust education in post-apartheid South Africa - impetus for social activism or a short-lived catharsis? Tracey Peterson, Education Director, Capetown Holocaust Centre, Capetown, South Africa Workshop debate

13.30 15.00 Concurrent sessions Active Communities Location: MMM Lecture Theatre Chair: Claire Benjamin Overview of Working with Communities at NML Claire Benjamin, Head of Communities, National Museums Liverpool Social Media for Social Change Corey Timpson, Manager New Media Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada When working with communities is it the ownership of perspective that is the biggest question needing an answer? Brett Mason, Director Museums Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Liverpool case study - International Slavery Museum Tony Lloyd, CEO Anthony Walker Foundation, Liverpool Brenda Garner, Stop the Traffik, Liverpool ACT group Workshop debate Exhibiting Sensitive Histories Location: Anthony Walker Education Centre Chair: Dr Richard Benjamin Overview of International Slavery Museum Dr Richard Benjamin, Head of International Slavery Museum, National Museums Liverpool A new Museum of Independence Camilo Sanchez, Museological Adviser, Museum of Independence, Bogota, Colombia Designing for Hearts and Minds: The Crafting of Slavery Histories at the International African American Museum Paul Williams, Senior Content Developer, Ralph Applebaum Associates, New York, USA Continuing collecting efforts for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research, Imperial War Museum, London, UK Workshop debate 15.30 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 16.30 Inaugural FIHRM meeting and Market place of Ideas Inaugural FIHRM Meeting Chair: Dr David Fleming OBE Panel FIHRM Council Members Market Place of Ideas - delegates answer questions about their posters Location: Conference break out space 16.30 Conference close

In the conference space Marketplace of Ideas - Poster sessions Poster sessions are widely used at conferences to replace concurrent sessions of oral presentations of papers. It is a visual and concise method of presenting work. All posters will be available for viewing by the public throughout the conference. Special session: Thursday 16 September 15.30-16.30 On Thursday afternoon, there will be an opportunity to speak to owners of the poster sessions and find out more about their work. Warrington Young Roots Education about Slavery (WYRES) project: A real partnership between museums, creatives and educators helps young people to uncover real answers to real questions no one dared to face before. Alexandra Robinson, University of Liverpool Museums as venues and initiators of cultural mediation Hazel Brookes, Researcher Museum Consultant, Chepstow Museum, Chepstow, St Kitts Sensitive Histories in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Rhonda Hinther, Head: Exhibit Research, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg Canada Displaying Records of Slavery in St Kitts-Nevis Victoria O Flaherty, Director of Archives, National Archives, Basseterre UNESCO Associated Schools & Programme Anne Breivik, UK National Coordinator, UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) & Programme Secretary (Culture), UK National Commission for UNESCO Precious cargo: a travelling museum providing artistic and educational exhibitions and programming Cheryl Ann Bolden, Artist/Curator, Association Musée des Diasporas Africaines Visit the Campaign Market Place The Campaign Market Place is located in the foyer of the Merseyside Maritime Museum. A number of campaign agencies are distributing information about current campaigns. Find out more about: Counter Traffiking UK Stop the Traffik Anti-Slavery International Christian Aid

Online resources for FIHRM Follow us on twitter we will be tweeting during the conference using the hash tag #FIHRM Official website www.fihrm.org.uk All proceedings of the conference will be available on the FIHRM website Email us fihrm@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk National Museums Liverpool Trading Company Our coffee is Rainforest Alliance certified, organic and Fairtrade. Our tea is Fairtrade. All our food is locally sourced and freshly prepared by our in-house chefs.

Keynote Speakers Listed in order of appearance. Dr David Fleming OBE Director National Museums Liverpool Founding FIHRM President David Fleming has been Director of National Museums Liverpool (NML) since 2001. His background is as a social and urban historian. In Liverpool he has supervised the completion of a number of major capital projects, and the opening of the new International Slavery Museum in 2007. He is currently overseeing the creation of the new 72 million Museum of Liverpool. Museum audiences in Liverpool have grown massively during his directorship. He is a past President of the UK Museums Association, past Trustee of the National Museum of Labour History, of the National Football Museum, and of St George s Hall, and has served on several UK Government committees and Task Forces. David has advised the Dutch Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science on a national strategy for museums; the Norwegian Government on the structure of their national art galleries; and the Egyptian Government on the Grand Egyptian Museum Project; as well as a number of other national and municipal authorities, in Moldova, Latvia, Germany and other countries. He has published more than 80 articles on museums and lectured in 25 countries on museum management and leadership, social inclusion, city history museums, and human rights museums. Recently he has been asked to give keynote addresses at the annual conferences of the Museums Associations of Ireland, Canada, Finland, New Zealand and the UK, and at the centenary conference of the National Museum of Korea. David is currently President of INTERCOM, the ICOM International Committee on Museum Management, Vice-Chair of the European Museum Forum, and Founding President of the Federation of International Human Rights Museums. He is an External Examiner in Museum Studies at the Universities of Leicester and Bournemouth. In 1997 David was awarded an OBE for services to museums, and in 2002 he was named one of the ten most influential people in UK museums. He has been a prominent figure in the movement to make museums more socially inclusive, and is a strong advocate of the museum profession s responsibility to fight for human rights.