Dr. Susannah Eckersley "Museums and Migration"

Migration:Cities Workshop, Athens 2017

Migration:Cities Athens Workshop 2017 – presentation by Dr Susannah Eckersley, Newcastle University

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Gegê Leme Joseph

I am a partner at Much | Media and Culture, a media and culture company working across different countries, based in São Paulo, Brazil. I am trained in architecture/urban planning through the University of São Paulo, production design in South Africa and have a masters degree in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. I am specialised in strategic and interpretive planning, as well as in experience development for the museum, heritage and culture sectors, marrying complex content and interpretative environments which are engaging and well planned. I have developed museum concepts, exhibitions, interpretative plans, as well as products across a range of media and themes, in South Africa, Brazil and other countries since 2000.

Voice of Freedom

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The temporary exhibition hosted in 2018 at the museum is about ten Nigerian women who escaped slavery and had the chance to tell their stories through photography. By reversing the classic … [read more]

The temporary exhibition hosted in 2018 at the museum is about ten Nigerian women who escaped slavery and had the chance to tell their stories through photography. By reversing the classic photographic narration, Voice of Freedom puts the victims behind the camera, thus offering the opportunity to tell each other's experience in person and with their own sensitivity. Down below you can find the social media accounts of the museum and the exhibition "Voice of Freedom": https://www.facebook.com/MuseoDiffusodellaResistenza/ https://www.facebook.com/voiceoffreedom.uk/ [hide]

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Giannis Koukmas describes projects developed by the Ethnological Museum of Thrace on representing contemporary migration through participatory projects, sharing food, community engagement and giving.

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Peter Scholten is Professor of Migration and Diversity Policies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, director of the … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Peter Scholten is Professor of Migration and Diversity Policies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, director of the IMISCOE Research Network and editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies. His research focuses on themes of migration and integration governance, comparative public policy, and the relation between research and policymaking. Since 2014 Peter is coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network and head of the Network Office established at EUR. Furthermore, he is editorin-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. For more information; see www.peterscholten.eu. [hide]

How to put immigration in a museum?

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Andrea Delaplace presented her master’s dissertation on the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration at EHESS – … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Andrea Delaplace presented her master’s dissertation on the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration at EHESS – École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - (Mention Ethnology and Social Anthropology) and is a PhD student in Museum studies and heritage, ED 441 History of Art, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Dominique Poulot. She is also a member of the Groupe de Recherche en Histoire du Patrimoine et des Musées - HiPaM: https://hipam.hypotheses.org/83and of the Association de la recherché sur l’image photographique – Arip : http://arip.hypotheses.org/author/del... Publications : Cahiers de l’Ecole du Louvre n°7 Octobre 2015 - Un palais pour les immigrés? Le musée de l’histoire de l’immigration à Paris: une collection et un musée en devenir. http://cel.revues.org/296 [hide]

Creating Intercultural Dialogues

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Creating Intercultural Dialogues between the City and the Immigrants - Immigration Docent Projects in National Taiwan … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Creating Intercultural Dialogues between the City and the Immigrants - Immigration Docent Projects in National Taiwan Museum. Emily Hsuwen Yuan is a Research Assistant of the Education Department, National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. She was a Project Manager of following Events: ICOM-NATHIST 2015, TAIWAN; National Cultural Conference – the New Immigrant Conference, 2017; New Immigrant Docent Project, since 2014. She was also the Curator of Special Exhibition of Southeast Asian Flavor, the Taste of Hometown”, 2017. [hide]

The City Museum and the future of the city

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. The case study of Rhome - Migrant eyes and memories. Claudia Pecoraro is a Researcher and Curator. She started researching … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. The case study of Rhome - Migrant eyes and memories. Claudia Pecoraro is a Researcher and Curator. She started researching about museums after her degree in Humanities and Archaeology, when she specialized with a dissertation on the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in France in 2006 and has since gained many experiences abroad. For two years, she has been working on Rhome – Migrant eyes and memories, a research project in social inclusion within museums, focusing on the city’s new inhabitants from around the world. She has been the curator of several participatory projects and exhibitions of contemporary art. She is currently working for the Regional Ministry of Culture in Rome. Gloria Romanello is a Researcher and Consultant. She received a PhD in Culture and Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and a post-secondary academic degree in History of art (Italy). Her researches focus most [hide]

Reconfiguration of "Migration" and "Woman"

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Reconfiguration of "Migration" and "Woman" in a Participatory Museum Project. Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Elif received her BA degree in Sociology … [read more]

Reconfiguration of "Migration" and "Woman" in a Participatory Museum Project. Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Elif received her BA degree in Sociology (Galatasaray University, Istanbul) and MA degree in Anatolian Civilizations and Cultural Heritage Management (Koç University, Istanbul/Scholarship fellow). Co-founder of Museum Professionals Association in Turkey. Worked at Pera Museum, Istanbul, in the Business Development Projects between 2010-2012. Coordinator and curator of the Federal German Migrant Women Association’s Bibliothek der Generationen project in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. DFG fellow and PhD researcher at TU Berlin—IGK – Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin-New York-Toronto. Her research interest span over museology, urban, and digital culture. [hide]