Upcoming conferences

For a generic listing of major annual conferences, go to Resources > Conferences.

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2nd International Conference on African Culture and Development (ICACD 2009)
Accra, Ghana, 14th-17th June 2009
"The Conference seeks to draw global attention to African Arts and culture and the significant impact it has on the development of the African continent. The conference aims to bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines spanning, Developments Studies , African Culture, Social Sciences and Humanities as well as representatives of African Traditional Institutions, Non-Governmental organizations and Government Agencies to discuss a variety of topics aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals while strengthening the outcomes of ICACD 2009."
» http://www.conference.icacdafrica.org

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Sharing Cultures 2009: International Conference on Intangible Heritage
Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, 30 May-1 June 2009.
"Sharing Cultures 2009 aims at gathering in an International Conference worldwide experts and scholars on Cultural and Intangible Heritage. One of the main goals of the Conference is to promote significant discussion on these relevant issues, now that the General Assembly of UNESCO approved the Operational Directives and that the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage is fully operational. ... Considering that culture cannot be reduced to its material aspects, intangible heritage must be addressed in innovative-sustainable ways, as a source of inspiration, a field of research and a vast and rich territory of identity. Following the definition endorsed by UNESCO, one of the main goals of Sharing Cultures 2009 is to bring into discussion research work on "living expressions and traditions that countless groups and communities worldwide have inherited from their ancestors and transmit to their descendants, in most cases orally".
» http://sharing.cultures2009.greenlines-institute.org

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Museums and the Web
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 14-18 April 2009
Held every year since 1997, this has become one of the major museum informatics conferences.
» http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html

First Department of Information Science Archives Conference, Exploring Our Cultural Heritage: Managing Archives and Records for the Present and Future Generations.
University of South Africa (Sunnyside Campus), Pretoria, South Africa. 4-5 September 2008.
This conference presents a forum for heritage practitioners, archivists and records managers to come together, share their work and experiences, and learn from one another. The Archives Conference 2008 is the first in a series of conferences dedicated to promoting understanding and best practice in management of archives and records. Some of the objectives of the Conference are to:

• share information about emerging trends and technologies;
• discuss important problems concerning the professional competence of a contemporary archivist in Africa;
• establish the influence of new technologies on the scope and forms of activity of archives;
• access the suitability of the existing legislation and practice of African countries;
• consider a model of archivists' professional competence, common for all countries in Africa;
• develop strategies to safeguard records for accountability, good governance, protection of human rights;
• raise awareness of the plight of former liberation movements scattered in the world

» http://www.unisa.ac.za/contents/faculties/humanities/docs/Archives_conf_programme.pdf

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Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE, Athens, 30th Oct-2nd Nov 2008
The Conference ... intends to promote a dialogue on current issues and concerns raised regarding the new knowledge environment, as this is formed by the use of new media for heritage management and dissemination.
The discussion will grow around five sessions addressing


• Case studies of new technologies applied in Archaeology and Heritage Management
• Activity towards the formation of a common language to ensure compatibility and interoperability of applications and systems
• The use of Web 2.0 as part of the new knowledge environment
• Free, open and public access to heritage content

• Theoretical approaches to cultural heritage and digital culture.

» http://www.iosa.it/www/content/digital-heritage-new-knowledge-environment-shared-spaces-open-paths-cultural-content

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Rethinking Cultural Heritage: Challenges & Dilemmas
St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum in Vittoriosa, Malta, 15th September 2008."The conference 'Rethinking Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Dilemmas' is being organised by the Institute of Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage (ICMCH), Heritage Malta, in partnership with the University of Malta and Bournemouth University. Objective: The conference aims at giving an opportunity to undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as recent graduates, to present their research in cultural heritage related disciplines, with a focus on heritage sites and new insights and approaches related to their management."
» http://www.heritagemalta.org/icmch/conference.html

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8th International Conference on Communicating the Museum: Communication Strategies
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy. 25-28 June 2008.
"The programme of the Communicating the Museum Conference will explore communications up in four key areas: Audience Research and Development, Advertising, Branding and New Media. These areas in turn will be broken down into keynote speeches and surgeries and interactive sessions, with the goal of deconstructing success stories in order to apply them to your future strategies." See, in particular, the papers on New Media.
» http://www.communicatingthemuseum.com

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International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
"Creativity, Cultural Diversity, Intangible Heritage and Sustainable
Development". Leiden, The Netherlands, 8-11 June 2008
Looks like this will turn out to be an exceptionally
interesting and innovate annual conference. Themes include:
representing social and cultural intangibles; the 'ethnographic' and
the 'anthropological'--framing first peoples and other 'traditions';
technologies in the museum; authenticity, decontextualisation and
recontextualisation of objects-on-show; the digitisation of
everything: from collection objects to media representations; museums
in and for the knowledge society--preserving heritage 'born digital';
new media and new literacies--changing the balance of creative agency
in the era of wiki, blogs, podcasts."
» http://z08.cgpublisher.com/themes.html

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Making Memories Live On: Engaging young people in oral history
Doncaster, 19th May 2008
"Oral history is an active way improve understanding between generations, help young people to understand their heritage and build skills and confidence. This one day seminar will examine the practical aspects of conducting an oral history project with young people as well as allowing those who have already carried out successful projects to share their experiences, explain the potential pitfalls and illustratethe benefts of this type of work."»http://enlaces.co.uk/makingmemories.aspx