INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM CONFERENCE
“Museum Leadership in the 21st Century: Regional Challenges and Global Impacts”
1ST TO 5TH NOVEMBER 2024
LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
National Museums
1st November – arrival | ||
Time | Activity | Session Chairperson |
08:00 | Arrival of Delegates, Annual Meetings | ICOM Zambia, NMB |
16:00 | Annual Meetings | INTERCOM |
18:00 | JOINT BOARDS DINNER | NMB |
2nd November | ||
08:00 | Registration of Delegates, Welcome Coffee | ICOM Zambia |
09:00 | OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Cultural Dance - Tongabezi Primary School Welcome Speech Victoria Chitungu - Director Livingstone Museum George S. Mudenda – Director General, National Museums Board Terry Nyambe – ICOM Executive Board Member Entertainment - Choral Music Emmanuel Hamatwi – President, ICOM Zambia Goranka Horjan – Chair, INTERCOM Zahida Quadri – Chair, ICR Betty Karanja – General Secretary, ICOM Africa Dorit Wolenitz – Chair, NATHIST Cultural Dance - National Dance Troupe Hon. Rodney Sikumba – Minister of Tourism | |
10.00 | ||
SESSION I: Presenter and moderator of the session: Martha Ikabongo | ||
10:05 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS WITH Q&A - DR SAMUEL KANTINI UNESCO ZAMBIA | |
10:35 | Rosario Ramos Salas (Mexico) - The Importance of Leadership in Strategic Planning in an Extraordinary Situation | |
10:50 | Beryl MN Ondiek (Seychelles) – “Navigating Complexities: Challenges in Museum Leadership within a Small Island State – A Case Study of Seychelles” | |
11:05 | Constance Mulenga (Zambia) – Resilience of the Livingstone Museum: Through and Beyond Pandemic | |
11:20 | Daria Parfenenko (Russia) – The Friends programme of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts | |
11:35 | Prof. dr. Tatjana Vlahović (Croatia) - The management challenges in renovation of the national museum after the earthquake | |
11:50 | Chilangwa Chaiwa (Zambia)- “Challenges of Cultural Heritage Sites and Museums in Africa” | |
12:05 | Goranka Horjan (Croatia) - Transformative Leaderships and Fighting Silo Mentality | |
12:20 | Hans van de Bunte (The Netherlands)- Eyes Open when Artefacts Return Home | |
12:35 | Question and Answer | |
12:50 | LUNCH TIME | |
SESSION II: Presenter of the session and moderator: Zahida Quadri | ||
14:15 | KEYNOTE II Q&A Linda Apiyo MBOYA, ICOM Kenya Chair | |
14:45 | Alenka Cernelic Kroselj (Slovenia) – Regional Museums and Mitigating Risks, A Brief Insight for Slovenia and South East Europe | |
15.00 | Anna Antipenko (Russia) – Regional Museums: Peculiarities of the Development outside the Metropolis | |
15:15 | Patricia Lopez Sanchez Cervantes (Scotland) – Resilience and Relevance: Navigating the Challenges of Museums in Mexico | |
15:30 | Gijs Schunselaar (the Netherlands) – The challenge of Change & Community: The Resilient Museum | |
15:45 | Khalid Loukid (Morocco) – Strategic Planning in Moroccan Museums: Adapting to Regional needs and embracing Global Trends | |
16.00 | Antonio Ponte (Portugal) – Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis: A Museum acts locally and thinks globally | |
16: 15 | Emmanuel Hamatwi (Zambia) - Contemporary Museum Leadership: Building Trust through Museum Education | |
16: 30 | Question and Answer | |
Delegates leave for Livingstone Museum | ||
17:00 | Poster session – Livingstone Museum, guided tour (registration required) Addresses: Victoria Chitungu – Director, Livingstone Museum (Welcoming) Poster presenters:
| OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE WELCOME COCKTAIL FOLLOWS |
3rd November | |||
SESSION III: Presenter and moderator: Betty Karanja | |||
09:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS WITH Q&A Dorit Wolenitz, Chair of NATHIST | ||
09:30 | Martine Affoue’Kouadio Gokra (Cote d'Ivoire) – Leadership Museal face au defi du development durable en Cote d’Ívoire: Lecture, diagnostics et pistes de reflexions | ||
9:45 | Barbara Jursic (Slovenia) – Role of a Museum Manager in a Renovation of a Cultural Monument by EU Cohesion Funds | ||
10.00 | Danijela Djukic (Montenegro) – Improvement of the Museum and Gallery Tivat | ||
10:15 | Jurica Sabol (Croatia) – Challenges in the Renovation and Revitalisation of Cultural Heritage after a Natural Disaster | ||
10:30 | Yiannis Markakis (Greece) – ACCESSING A MUSEUM'S CORP & SOUL; the case of the Cretan open-air Museum LYCHNOSTATIS | ||
10:45 | Kunyima Nobu (Zambia) – Museum Leadership and Current Challenges | ||
11:00 | Question and Answer | ||
11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
11:45 | Victoria Chitungu and Samba Yonga (Zambia) – The Impact of Digital Heritage in Africa: The Case of a digital repatriation of cultural heritage in the Gwembe Valley of Zambia | ||
12:00 | Rebecca Bailey (United Kingdom)– Towards a Digital Collections Infrastructure | ||
12:15 | Gankanani Moyo (Zambia) Living Museums: Digitizing and use of Living Heritage in Enhancing Museums Relevance | ||
12:30 | Katarina Maric (Croatia) - Digital vs Analogue - The Perpetual Struggle of Exhibition Thinking | ||
12:45 | Dr Paul Frey (Austria) – Only in Vienna? Supranational Collections and their Missions in Tomorrow’s Museum World | ||
13:00 | Maggie Mwale (Zambia) - Museum Management - Using Museum Collections for Research | ||
13:15 | Question and Answer | ||
13:20 | Lunch | ||
14.15 | SESSION IV: Workshops | ||
1st | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - WEB 3 Anthony Azekwoh & Heloise Amez-Droz | ||
2nd | PROVENANCE RESEARCH ON OBJECTS OF THE COLONIAL ERA Hans van de Bunte | ||
3rd | MUSEUM MANAGEMENT Goranka Horjan | ||
4th | STRATEGIC PLANNING Jane Legget | ||
17:10 | PLENARY AND WRAP UP OF THE WORKSHOPS | ||
17.20 | LIVINGSTONE MUSEUM VISIT | ||
4th November | |||
SESSION: | |||
PANEL SESSIONS | Presenter and Moderator: Terry Nyambe | ||
09:00 | PANEL - TAKING THE PULSE OF MUSEUM LEADERSHIP – RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT AND CASE STUDIES | Panelists: Lizzy Moriarty, Anne Marie Gillis, Samba Yonga, Jess Castellote, Noel Lwoga, Limpo Malama | |
09:45 | Questions and Answers | ||
10:00 | Coffee break | ||
10:20 10’ video 45’: discussion (3 questions to each panellist - 2’ or 3’ ) | PANEL - STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY - ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND BUILDING RESILIENCE | Introduction: LUCIMARA LETELIER - Michela Rota , VIDEO, Panellists: Goranka Horjan – Chair, Zahida Quadri, Betty Karanja, Dorit Wolenitz, Emmanuel Hamatwi | |
11.00 - 20 min | Questions and answers | ||
11.45 | Workshop led by ICOM Sustain: BUILDING AN ACTION PLAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY - Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Justice (Strictly by invitation) Promotion of the Book - International Perspectives on Museum Management | Michela Rota Darko Babic | |
13.00 | LUNCH | ||
14.00 | Drafting conclusion and messages from the conference | ALL COMMITTEES | |
14. 45 | Coffee break | ||
15.00 | WRAP UP OF THE CONFERENCE | Representatives of the partners | |
16.30 | FAREWELL PARTY - BOAT CRUISE | ||
5th November | ||
09:00 | Onsite visit to the Victoria Falls, Railway/Jewish Museums | |
11:00 13:00 | Onsite visit to the Mosi –O- Tunya Park LUNCH AT COURTYARD HOTEL | |