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DAY 1 (11th October):
EUI / Badia Fiesolana / Sala del Capitolo
09:00 – Welcome
09:15 – Opening and practical information
Session 1 – History (Morning)
CHAIR: Bruno A Martinho, Charlotte Bellamy, Déborah Dubald (EUI)
09:30 – Anna Toledano (Stanford University): Learning from Landscapes: The Dreamworld of the Diorama.
09:45 – Mohamed Elshahed (The British Museum): Collecting and displaying Modern Egypt for the museum.
10:00 – History Session organisers
10:15 – Discussion
10:15 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Guest Speaker: Dr. Kim Sloan (The British Museum)
12:15 – Discussion
10:15 – Lunch
Session 2 – Responsibility (Afternoon)
CHAIR: Josephine Tierney & Holly Winter (Univ. Warwick)
14:30 – Lucia Halder (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Cultures of the world, Cologne): Bringing back the pictures. Colonial photography at the collection of the Rautenstrauch – Jöst – Museum – Cultures of the world.
14:45 – Marcelo Lages Murta (Lusófona University): Undesirable memories’: excluded voices revealed in a community museum in Brazil.
15:00 – Responsibility Session organisers
15:15 – Discussion
16:00 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Guest Speaker: Prof. Christopher Whitehead (Newcastle University)
17:15 – Discussion
18:00 – End of DAY 1
DAY 2 (12th October):
Curating History in practice (Morning)
09:45 – Meeting at the museum’s entrance
10:00 – Visit to the library of the museum
10:30 – Visit to the museum’s permanent exhibition
11:00 – Museum exercise with a curator from Museo Galileo: Group A
12:00 – Museum exercise with a curator from Museo Galileo: Group B
13:00 – Lunch
Session 3 – Mediation (Afternoon)
CHAIR: Carla Alferes Pinto & Sofia Lapa (CHAM)
14:30 – Malin Drees (Ruhr-University Bochum); Brenda Spiesbach (Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin): How Much Context Does an Object Need? – Decontextualization of Objects in Museums.
14:45 – Alison Boyd (Northwestern University/KHI in Florence– Max-Planck-Institut): Title tbc
15:00 – Guest Speaker: Dr. Sébastien Soubiran (Jardin des Sciences, Univ. Strasbourg)
15:45 – Coffee Break
16:15 – Mediation Session organisers
16:30 – Discussion
17:30 – End of DAY 2
DAY 3 (13th October):
EUI / Villa Salviati / Sala degli Anelli
Session 4 – Communication (Morning)
CHAIR: Matthew Wells (RCA / V&A Museum)
10:00 – Marina Scherbakova (Heidelberg University): Museum in a museum: curating Jewish history in the Russian museum of ethnography in St. Petersburg
10:25 – Communication Session organiser & Discussion
10:40 – Discussion
11:05 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Guest Speaker: Dr. Marta Lourenço, Museums of the University of Lisbon
13:00 – End of DAY 3
Curating History 