Contributors
Museums for Social Harmony
University Museums and Collections as Recorders of Cultural and Natural Communities Worldwide
UMAC's 10th International Conference, in cooperation with CIPEG (International Committee for Egyptology)
7th - 12th November 2010, Shanghai, China, within the ICOM General Conference
General information: http://www.icom2010.org.cn/icomwbs/webpages/en/index.jsp
Contributors
Leilani Bin-Juda, Australia
Leilani Bin-Juda is of Torres Strait Islander descent and has over 10 years experience in the cultural heritage industry. She was recruited to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2007 as the Manager of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program in the Cultural Diplomacy Section. In 2009 she joined the Shanghai World Expo team as Manager of the cultural program for the Australian Pavilion. Prior to joining DFAT Ms Bin-Juda was the Gab Titui Cultural Centre Manager and Arts Development Officer at the Torres Strait Regional Authority on Thursday Island. During 1999-2002 she was the Curator of the Torres Strait Islander gallery at the National Museum of Australia. In 2000 she was awarded the Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship to conduct a study tour investigating Indigenous participation in cultural heritage and learning, in particular, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America. For the last three consecutive years, she taught the arts and project management component of the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Arts Management at the Victorian College of Arts in partnership with the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development.
Jocelyn T. Calubayan, Philippines
Associate Researcher, Research Cluster on Culture, Education and Social Issues, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
Teaches Art History courses, Art Appreciation, Aesthetics and Cultural Heritage subjects to Fine Arts students of the same University; was appointed Director of the UST Publishing House from 2006-2008; worked as Assistant Gallery Curator of the University of Santo Tomas Museum of Arts and Sciences from 1996-2005, in-charge of Exhibitions and Educational Programs. She was Project Director of the Thomasian Chalk Festival, the first inter-school on-the-spot chalk art competition in the Philippines; Curator of various thematic exhibitions; her current research interest is geared towards the progress of Philippine Contemporary Art and its role in the development of the local culture and its contribution to art education
María del Carmen Maza, Argentina
President of ICOM Argentina, Adviser of the Museum and Historical Archive, Faculty of Law - University of Buenos Aires
Graduated in Museology and Museum Curator. Member of the staff at several museums of historical character and at two university museums: Museum of Science and Technology of the Faculty of Engineering and Museum and Historical File of the Faculty of Law, both depending on the University of Buenos Aires. Counsellors´ Chief of the Head Office of Museums of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. As independent professional she has been curator, museographer and researcher. Since 1993 collaborates with ICOM Argentina in the accomplishment of Seminars and Meetings for professionals. At present she is President of ICOM Argentina.
Elena Corradini, Italy
Professor of Museology and Restoration Critique in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Director of Master in Computer Cataloguing (www.cibec.unimore.it), Coordinator of the section “The educational activity in the Museums” in the Doctorate School “Human Sciences” , Chancellor delegate at the CRUI-Museum Commission Rectors conference of Italian Universities.
Manager and curator of exhibitions, member of scientific boards and of many research projects, curator of books and author of more than 150 papers; 2004-2006 Expert member of the National Commission for the Economy of Art and the National Board of the Professional Accountants of Rome. 2004 -2006 Manager at the General Administrative Office for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage in Rome - Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage; 2002-2004 Director Archaeologist at the Regional Direction of the Regione Emilia Romagna in Bologna - Ministry for Cultural Heritage; 1980 to 2002 in Modena - Ministry for Cultural Heritage, at the Superintendance of Modena and Reggio Emilia. 1996 - 2002 member of the board of the Italian Committee of ICOM, also as vice-president.
Claire Derriks, Belgium
Curator Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
1988 Third Cyclus in Archaeology at the University of Liège; 2001 PhD in Philosophy and History at the University of Liège, Egyptology
Since 2006, teacher at the Royal Institut for History of Art at Bruxelles; Egyptian art
Since 2007, Chair of CIPEG (International Committee for Egyptology in the Council of Museum-ICOM)
Partnership programs with the Royal Institut for Artistic Patrimonium, Bruxelles, and with ENSAV-La Cambre, Bruxelles Publications e.a. Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, 2009, and the Egyptian collection of Mariemont is already on line in the Global Egyptian Museum
Further information: www.globalegyptianmuseum.org and www.musee-mariemont.be
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Fang Hui, China
Director of Shandong University Museum, Jinan, Shandong, China
1984 B.A. Archaeology Department, Shandong University; 1987 M.A. Archaeology Department, Shandong University; 1994 Ph.D. History Department, Shandong University. Since 1987, teacher at Department of Archaeology, Shandong University; since 2007, Director at Shandong University Museum.
Further information: www.arc.sdu.edu.cn and www.musee.sdu.edu.cn
Vincenza Ferrara, Italy
Centro di Ricerca per le Scienze Applicate alla Protezione dell’Ambiente e dei Beni Culturali – University of Rome “La Sapienza
Degreed on History of art. She works at the Research Center "La Sapienza" for Applied Sciences in Environmental Protection and Cultural Heritage and with the Museums of the University "La Sapienza" for the application of new technologies. Since the academic year 1999-2000 she has been done workshops of Computer Science for the degree course on Technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage of University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Over the years she has been developed research on the use of technologies to imaging processing, database design, design of information systems, multimedia software for the study, conservation, education and scientific popularization of cultural heritage. In particular, it deals with projects related to science and development of software for museums. She has published papers and articles on her research on electronic catalogs for museums, software and museum networks.
Lyndel King, USA
Director of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Lyndel King has been director and chief curator at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum since 1981. She is adjunct professor in art history and also teaches museum studies. Prior to her work at the Weisman, King worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., as well as several jobs in an earlier career as a chemist and virologist. King received an outstanding service award from the American Association of Museums for her work as a peer reviewer and awards from the American Association of Architects Minnesota for her contribution to design. She is Vice President of the American Association of Museums. For the Association of Art Museum Directors, she has been chair of the Art Issues, Technology and Communications, and Government Affairs committees.
Yingyod Lapwong, Thailand
Scientist, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum, Prince of Songkla University
Mr Yingyod Lapwong is working as a scientist at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum, Prince of Songkla University, south of Thailand. Lapwong was one of the very first volunteers working in this museum when he was an undergraduate student there. In 2007, after finished the degree, the museum offered him a scientist position. Six months later, due to the lack of museum organization skill, the Thai government has granted him a scholarship to go to study at Macquarie University, Australia. Lapwong spent two years to do Master of Museum Studies and finished in 2010. Later, he came back to Thailand and continues his career at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum. Despite the position of scientist, Lapwong is working on marketing, public relation and educational programs. However, he still spares his time to learn about echinoderms in order to develop the collection of these fauna in the future
Ramon Lerma, Philippines
Ramon E.S. Lerma is Director and Chief Curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery
The Ateneo Art Gallery is the first museum of modern and contemporary art in the Philippines. Mr. Lerma is concurrently Director for Exhibitions of the Rizal Library Special Collections, Ateneo de Manila University. He is the founder of the Ateneo Art Awards, which is widely recognized as the most prestigious prize for an emerging visual artist in the Philippines. Mr. Lerma holds a BA in Humanities, cum laude, from the Ateneo de Manila University, and an MA in Art Administration from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. As editor of the book "Tanaw: Perspectives on the Painting Collection of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)," Mr. Lerma received the 2006 National Book Award for Art (Alfonso T.Ongpin Award for Best Book on Art) from the Manila Critics Circle
Li Huizhu, China
Assistant Curator of Shandong University Museum, Jinan, Shandong, China
1990 B.A. Archaeology Department, Shandong University; 2004 M.A. History Department, Shandong University; 2007 Ph.D. Archaeology Department, Shandong University. Since 2000, worked at Shandong University Museum; since 2007, Assistant Curator at Shandong University Museum.
Further information: www.musee.sdu.edu.cn and www.arc.sdu.edu.cn
Mustafa Shabbir Hussain, Singapore
Assistant Curator, NUS Museum.
As a student of the arts, his research interests include political philosophy and modern South and Southeast Asian history. His approach to understanding the arts has centred heavily on engaging different archives of thinking and writing, all in an attempt at opening up the archives to multivariate struggles of perception and reading. The South and Southeast Asian exhibitions that he recently curated include: Archives and Desires: Selections from the Mohammad Din Mohammad Collection (2008); Mapping the Corporeal: Ronald Ventura (2008); Past-Present: Craft Communities in Contemporary India (2009) and Persistent Visions | Erika Tan (2009). His recent publications include "Re-membering the Intimate Past" in Shifts: Wong Hoy Cheong, 2002-2007 (2008); "Something" in Being: Ahmad Zakii Anwar (2009) and "The Science of the Native in Colonial Malaya" in Camping and Tramping through the Colonial Archive: Empire, Museum, Malaya, (2010).
Jude Philp, Australia
Senior Curator for the Macleay Museum, Sydney University Museums
The Macleay Museum holds an internationally renowned collection of insects (~900,000), mammals and birds along with coral, shell and ethnographic collections. It has a strong legacy of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and hosts the University of Sydney's repatriation program. Jude has curated a number of exhibitions that focus on the intersection of cultural and scientific knowledge between European and Pacific peoples including Rational Order: Carl von Linné 1707-1778; On the Inside: Anatomy and Learning; Griffith Taylor: Global Geographer. She previously worked at the Australian Museum in the Anthropology Division, and Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where she completed her doctorate on the contemporary significance of the material culture of Torres Strait Islander
Gabriele Pieke, Germany
Exhib/ Humboldt University of Berlin
University studies in Egyptology, Philology of Christian Orient, and Communication studies; PhD in Egyptology; 1995 – 2000 Research associate and assistant curator, Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim; 2001-2002 Research associate for Excavation Tuna el-Gebel of the Universities Munich and Cairo; 2004-2008 Curator of the Egyptian Museum of the University Bonn, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Art History and Archaeology, University of Bonn. Since 2007 Researcher for the project Museums in the Nil-Delta, a scholarly publications of several Egyptian collections in the Delta-Region; since 2009 Researcher for the Mission Archéologique dans la Nécropole Thébaine (MANT) de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles et de l’Université de Liège
Since 2007 Secretary General of CIPEG (ICOM’s International Committee for Egyptian and Sudan Archaeological Collections)
Exhibition project on Jenseits des Horizonts. Raum und Wissen in antiken Kulturen.
Further information: http://www.topoi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=424
Steph Scholten, The Netherlands
Director of Heritage Collections at the University of Amsterdam
Since 2009 Director of Heritage Collections at the University of Amsterdam. In this capacity he is responsible for (almost) all collections and museums at the University. 2002-2009 Head of Collections and Deputy Director at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. 1997-2005 Policy Advisor and Head of Research at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage. 1989-2007 Policy advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, in the fields of contemporary art, museums and conservation of cultural heritage. 1984-1990 MA Art History University of Amsterdam
Raymond Silverman, USA
Professor of History of Art and Afroamerican & African Studies & Director of the Museum Studies Program
In 2002, Raymond Silverman joined the faculty at the University of Michigan where he is Professor of History of Art and Afroamerican & African Studies, and serves as Director of the Museum Studies Program. He has also been Interim Co-Director of the UM Museum of Art. In addition to teaching courses dealing with the visual cultures of Africa and Museum Studies, he has curated a number of exhibitions dealing with various aspects of African visual culture. Silverman’s research and writing has examined the interaction between West Africa and the cultures of the Middle East and Europe, the history of metal technologies in Ethiopia and Ghana, the social values associated with creativity in Ethiopia, the visual culture of religion in 20th-century Ethiopia, and the commodification of art in Ethiopia and Ghana. Most recently he has been exploring “museum culture” in Africa, specifically how local knowledge is translated in national and community-based cultural institutions.
Andrew Simpson, Australia
Chair of CAUMAC (Council of Australian University Museums and Collections)
Andrew Simpson is a museum professional with experience in a number of Australian Universities. He has worked mostly with science collection, but has also developed university-wide policy for collections and undertaken reviews of non-scientific university collections and co-curated university art exhibitions. In recent years he has developed undergraduate and postgraduate museum studies programs at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia.
Carla Sinopoli, USA
Director and Curator of Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology and Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
With a joint position as professor and museum curator, Sinopoli teaches and conducts research in Asian Archaeology, pre-modern political systems, and material culture, especially ceramics analysis. Her primary research focus is in southern India where she has directed archaeological fieldwork focused on the 14th-16th c CE Vijayanagara Empire and on the South Indian Iron Age. In her museum role, Sinopoli is responsible for collections of Himalayan, Southeast Asian and East Asian archaeological and ethnographic materials, and is the current director of the Museum of Anthropology, a research, collections, and teaching unit of the University of Michigan.
Further information: www.lsa.umich.edu/umma/
Peter B. Tirrell, USA
Associate Director, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, USA
Peter B. Tirrell is also Adjunct Professor, Museum Studies Online, teaches the course “Museum Leadership and Management”. He has served as Board Member for the American Association of Museums, President for the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries and Chair of the UMAC Strategic Planning Working Group. He has assisted many organizations and museums with strategic planning such as the 2009 Creative Leadership Workshop in Tirana, Albania, for directors of Balkan Museums.
Cornelia Weber, Germany
General Manager of the Helmholtz Center for the Kulturtechniken, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, & Deputy Managing Director of the Department Scientific Collections and Science Communication; UMAC Chair
University studies in German Philology, particularly Medieval Language and Literature, and Art Education; Doctor of Philosophy. 1990-1995 Scientific Coordinator at the Institute for the European Cultural History, Augsburg University; since 1995 science management at Humboldt University. Since 2004 Chair of UMAC; also Chair of UMAC's Working Group Directories and Co-Editor of UMACJ (University Museums and Collections Journal). Research projects on University Museums and Collections in Germany.
Further information: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/kulturtechnik/weber_e.php
Graciela Weisinger Cordero, Argentina
Researcher, Social and Scientific Research Institute of the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
Graduated in Museology and researcher of the Social and Scientific Research Institute of the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino. Regular teacher of Museography at the Faculty of Arts, UMSA, and associate teacher of Cultural and Educational Marketing. She has developed as professional at several museums, ex: Museum of San Fernando's City and Museum of Science and Technology of the University of Buenos Aires. She has published a great number of papers, articles and investigations and fulfilled as researcher in the Department of Theatrical Architecture of the Colon Theatre. Nowadays she is a collaborator of ICOFOM and one of the editors of ICOM Argentina´s newsletter.
Wu Hong-zhou, China
Professor Wu Hong-zhou is the Director of the Chinese Medicine Museum at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Medical History Society and Chairman of CUMC.
Xu Shi-qiu, China
Professor Xu Shi-qiu is the Director of the Yifu Museum at Chinese Geology University. He also is the Vice Secretary-General of Chinese Geological Museum Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of CUMC.
Xu Yan, China
Professor Xu Yan is the Assistant Director of the Geological Museum at Jilin University. She is the Secretary-General of CUMC.