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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2008
To be returned by email and WORD FORMAT before JANUARY, 5th, 2009 to: ICOM Secretariat General Attn: M. Julien Anfruns Director General ICOM- UNESCO House 1 rue Miollis, 75015 Paris (France) Email: [email protected] Tel.: 33.1/ 47.34.05.00 – Fax: 33.1/43.06.78.62
NAME OF COMMITTEE_ International Committee of Museums of Ethnography
1. ACTIVITIES REPORT
1.1. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE YEAR (e.g. awards, publication, web site, training, etc.)
No achievements of note.
1.2. ICOM STRATEGIC PLAN In what ways has your committee taken actions that contribute to the realization of the Strategic Plan?
Strategic Object 1, Anticipated Result 1 Effective and frequent communication throughout network and about the network.
ICME collaborated with ICOM UK, the Council for Museum Anthropology and the American Association of Anthropology (AAA) in spreading information about international committees (see communications below).
ICME’s activities have been reported on the Council of Museum Anthropology electronic webblog, http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/ and in the newsletter of the AAA.
Continues to host a Yahoo web blog, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/icme/ and also [email protected].
Strategic Object 1, Anticipated Result 4
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Active strategic partnerships that are committed to global intervention and involvement.
ICME continues to collaborate with WIPO. ICME has started to work on developing a web presence with the Wikipedia Foundation which will allow for access to ethnographic collections globally. Meetings were held in January and June setting up guidelines for this initiative. Four pilot museums have been identified to start the project.
1.3. COMMUNICATIONS Please describe the frequency and methods of communication (surface mail, email, Web site, ICOM News, Newsletter, promotions in trade publications, etc.) you have used to contact members of the committee.
Two issues of the ICME newsletter were prepared and distributed electronically, to ICME members (http://museumsnett.no/icme/news.html). They are: Vol. 49, January 2008, Vol. 50, May 2008, Vol. 48, Oct. 2007.
Several reports of ICME activities were published: “The International Committee of Museums of Ethnography,” Annette B. Fromm in Anthropology News, American Anthropological Society, Vol 49, No. 5, pp. 55-56.
“Museum Inside Out ICOM Costume and Ethnography Committees’ Visit to The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art,” Barbara Woroncow in ICOM UK News, summer 2008, p15.
The International Committee of Museums of Ethnography was listed in the Yearbook of International Organizations, www.uia.org.
A report of the 2008 annual meeting in Jerusalem appeared on 20 November 2008 at 23:30 on Israeli Television. Galia Gavish, the director/curator of the Kaplan Museum, was interviewed on the program.
The Call for Papers for the ICME annual meeting held in Jerusalem in November appeared in several places, including:
International Council of Museums Discussion List - ICOM-L [email protected]
Calendar of ICOM Meetings and Events http://icom.museum/calendar2.html
H-Net Network for Museum Professionals [email protected]
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The UK based "ethnomuseums" list, [email protected] http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ethnomuseums.html
MusPro: Museum Professionals Mailing List, [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/~museum/
Conference Alerts Monthly http://www.conferencealerts.com/caadd.mv
AnthCal: The Anthropology Today Calendar of Events, [email protected] http://www.therai.org.uk/anthcal/calendar.html
AAA Calendar of Meetings of Interest to Anthropologists http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/mtg_clndr.html
1.4. PUBLICATIONS Please list publications (paper and electronic) in progress or completed in this year and indicate status (editor / number of pages / n° ISBN / date of publication / language of publication) [Please send a copy of each to the ICOM Secretariat]
No publications of note.
2. ANNUAL MEETING
Please provide the following information about your annual meeting for 2008. The 2008 ICME Annual Meeting, Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage, was held in Jerusalem November 17-19. Nineteen papers were presented. Nineteen countries were represented at the meeting. They included. Australia (1) Bulgaria (2) Chile (1) Croatia (3) Czech Republic (1) Denmark (1) Ecuador (1) Estonia (1) Germany (4) Greece (1) Israel (17) Italy (1) Korea (2) Norway (3) Romania (1) South Africa (2) Slovenia (2) Spain (1) U.S.A (5).
2.1. DATES & PLACE 2.1.1. Dates: November 17-19, 2008
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2.1.2 Location (city/country) : Jerusalem, Israel
2.2. PARTICIPANTS
ATTENDEES GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS [Numbers] From the From the From the Region host rest of the location world A. ICOM Members from your IC : B. Other ICOM Members
C. Total ICOM Members (A+B)
D. Non-ICOM Members
Total Attendees (C+D)
2.3. REGISTRATION FEES
EARLY LATE REGISTRATION REGISTRATION FEES FEES Deadline: [ADD DATE] Deadline [ADD DATE] ICOM Members ICOM Non Members
2.4. HOST PARTNER(S) The primary host of the 2008 ICME conference was The Isaac Kaplan Museum Old Yishuv Court Museum. Additional host partners included the following The Ministry of Science, Culture & Sports The Municipality of Jerusalem The Jerusalem Foundation L.A. Mayor Museum for Islamic Art The City of David Museum Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art
2.5. NATIONAL COMMITTEE(S)
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Did you notify the National Committee when holding a meeting in its country? Yes No The ICOM/Israel National Committee was fully supportive of the conference and provided a grant which underwrote the cost of printing the conference program.
2.6. JOINT MEETING(S)? If this meeting was jointly presented with another ICOM body (International Committee, National Committee, Associated Organization), please mention with which Committee(s) and/or Organisation(s).
2.7. PARTNERS What other organizations were eventually involved with the meeting (e.g. sponsors, institutions, other organizations, museums, etc.)?
2.8. LANGUAGE In what language(s) was the meeting conducted? / Was simultaneous translation provided for some or all of the meeting?
LANGUAGE(S) SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION English n/a
2.9. RESULTS/ PRODUCTS (e.g. publication, Web report, networking, training, etc.) Abstracts of all presentations were published on the ICME website along with a list of delegates and the program.
2.10 IN-KIND SERVICES If appropriate, please list services that were provided to your committee for the meeting (e.g. use of space for meetings, receptions, mail, translation, printing, etc.) In-Kind services were provided by the Berman Bakery and the Teperberg winery in Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Foundation provided a reception one evening of the conference. The Municipality of Jerusalem provided a reception one evening of the conference.
2.11. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Please let us have any further comments on the relationship between ICOM and your committee that have not already been captured in this survey.
Name: of respondent Annette B. Fromm, Ph.D. ______
Role in Committee _President ______
Place __Miami Beach, Florida, USA___ Date _5 January 2009 ___
Signature __ A.B.Fromm ______
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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES FINANCIAL ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2008
Name of Committee______
To be returned by email and WORD FORMAT before JANUARY, 5th, 2009 to: ICOM Secretariat General Attn: M. Julien Anfruns Director General ICOM- UNESCO House - 1 rue Miollis – 75015 Paris (France) Email. : [email protected] Tel.: 33.1/ 47.34.05.00 – Fax: 33.1/43.06.78.62
ACTUAL INCOME Balance from previous years (A) brought forward (A)
I ICOM Subvention for 2008
Other ICOM funding (eg. Grants)
Other income (please detail – e.g. Sponsorship, rrevenue from annual meeting) (
Total income (B) (B)
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ACTUAL EXPENSES Meetings (including administrative meetings) Bursaries
Publications
Web site
Bank charges
Other expenditure (please detail)
Total expenditure (C) (C)
2008 Result (B-C) (D)
Balance to be carried forward (A-D) (E) = (E)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please let us have any further comments on the relationship between ICOM and your committee that have not already been captured in this survey.
Name: of respondent: ______
Role in Committee: ______
Place: ______Date: ______
Signature:______
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