Conference Agenda

Friday, October 19th, 2007
10:15 am – 7:00 pm

10:15 am
Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg:
Introduction

10:45 am
Hans Belting: Why the Museum? New Markets, Colonial Memories, Local Politics [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

Section I: Contemporary Art and the Local Scene. Africa and the Middle East

11:30 am
Mirjam Shatanawi: Curating against the Odds: the Ethnographic Museum Today [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

12:30 am – 2.00 pm Lunch Break

2:00 pm
Claude Ardouin: The British Museum African Collections: from the Historic Collections to Collecting the Modern Cultures [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

2:45 pm
Koeki Claessens: The Royal Museum for Central Africa: From Colonial Museum to International Reference Institute for Central Africa [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

3:30 pm
Colin Richards: Contradiction. Contemporary Art, ‘Globality’ and a (South) African National Institution [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Coffee Break

4:45 pm
William Wells: The Project of the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

6:15 pm
Wonil Rhee: The Exhibition-Project “Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves” [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
9:15 am – 6:45 pm

Section II: The New Art Geography in the Asia Pacific Area

9:15 am
Oscar Ho Hing-kay: Business, Politic and People: Museum Development in Asia [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

10:00 am
Ramón Lerma: The Ateneo Art Gallery: An Art Museum for our Time [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

10:45 am – 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am
Eugene Tan: New Art Environments in Singapore and Southeast Asia [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

12:00 am
Alexandra Munroe: Collecting Contemporary Asian Art at the Guggenheim: The Dynamics of Canon Formation and Integrative Strategies [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

12:45 am
Fumio Nanjo: The Mori Art Museum and Museums of Contemporary Art in Japan [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Break

Section III: New Configurations in Latin American Art

3:15 pm
Rafael Sámano: The Project of the MUAC in Mexico City. Continuous Self-Questioning as Museological Activity [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30 pm
Justo Pastor Mellado: Rethinking the Museum in Latin America [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

5:15 pm
Ángel Kalenberg: On the recent History of Museums in Latin America and their Problems [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]

6:00 pm
Miguel A. Hernández: Invisible Peripheries: Spanish Art, Multiculturalism and Topology [Biography | Lecture: read | listen]