ICOM international committee of memorial in remembrance ICMEMO of the victims of public crimes

ICOM 2019 Triennial Museums as Cultural Hubs: the Future of Tradition

ICMEMO Conference Historical Heritage and its Relevance Today

Kyoto, 1st - 7th September 2019 Pre-Kyoto Conference Genocide, Memory and Peace for invited participants (application closed) Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 27th - 30th August 2019 organized by: Tuol Sleng Genocide (TSGM) Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MoCFA) in cooperation with: UNESCO (Memory of the World program) Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) ICMEMO

Program Suggested stop at Angkor Wat at Siem Reap prior to start of conference for 1 or 3 day visit to the Temples. Individuals responsible for organization.

Tuesday, August 27th Arrival of the international guests at Phnom Penh

Welcome dinner for the international guests 18:30 with representatives of MoCFA, UNESCO, KOICA, TSGM

Wednesday, August 28th Program for international guests 9:00 - 10:30 Audio guide tour

10:30 - Refreshment in the Visit of Tuol Sleng 11:00 meeting room Genocide Museum Guided tour: archive of TSGM and 11:00 - UNESCO Digitization project 11:45 (at work) Guided tour: 11:45 - temporary exhibition 12:30 “40 years: Remembering the victims of S-21”

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - Reflection meeting 14:30 and Q&A at TSGM

14:30 Departure to Choeung Ek

Visit of Choeung Ek 15:30 - Audio guide tour 17:00 Genocidal Center – former Killing Site 17:00 Departure to the hotel outside of Meeting for dinner Phnom Penh 19:00 (optional)

Thursday, August 29th Program with national partners and international guests

40 years: Search for Peace, Truth and Reconciliation in Cambodia (Program in planning)

Friday, August 30th Program of international exchange

8:00 Registration Making archives accessible – Opening remarks by Dr. Azemi Abdulaziz (Director General 8:30 - technical and of National Archives of Malaysia/ UNESCO MoW) and 9:00 ethical aspects Ophelia Leon (Chair of ICMEMO) (tbc) Ethical aspects of databases/ Moderated by N.N. Cambodia: Alexis Lecoq, UNESCO-Digitization Project at TSGM 9:00 - Ruanda: Aude Kamanzi, Aegis Trust, Genocide Database 10:30 Estonia: Sander Jürisson , VaBaMu Museum of Occupation and Freedom Panel discussion with Q&A

10:30 - Break 11:00

Accessibility for the (not only urban) public/ Moderated by N.N. Poland: Krzysztof Antonczyk, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 11:00 - Colombia: Cathalina Sanchez-Escobar, Museum Casa de la Memoria 12:30 South-Africa: Bonginkozi Zuma, Durban Local History Museums Panel discussion with Q&A

12:30 - Lunch Break 14:00

Representation of images from victims/ Moderated by N.N. USA: Dr.Nils Roemer, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies 14:00 - 15:30 at the University of Texas, Dallas Austria: Dr.Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, xhibit Vienna, Austria Bangladesh: Hoque Mofidul, Liberation War Museum Panel discussion with Q&A

15:30 - Break 16:00

Individual stories/ Moderated by N.N. 16:00 - Timor Leste: Hugo Fernandez, Centro Nacional Chega 17:30 USA: Magdalena Wrobel, Leo Baeck Institute Panel discussion with Q&A

17:30 - Closing session/ Feedback 18:00 End of the conference

Saturday, August 31st Departure of the international guests

ICMEMO members continue to ICOM 2019 in Kyoto/ ICOM Kyoto 2019 Triennial Museums as Cultural Hubs: the Future of Tradition

Kyoto, Japan, 1st - 7th September 2019 General Program Schedule: http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/schedule.html

ICMEMO Conference Historical Heritage and its Relevance Today

Conference Chair: Ophelia Leon Co-chair: Julie Higashi

Day 1 - Sunday, September 1st

18:00 - ICMEMO Annual Membership and Board Meeting 20:00 including Elections of the Board for 2019-2022 Day 2 - Monday, September 2nd Session 1: 14:30 - 16:00 / 16:30 - 18:00

Kaori Akiyama 14:30 - National Museum Japanese History (Sakura, Japan) 14:50 Representations of Japanese Imperial Military force in the Battle of Okinawa during WWII: Visualizing testimony

Isabelle Anatole-Gabriel 14:50 - World Heritage Centre UNESCO (Paris, France) 15:10 The inscription of the Meiji Industrial sites on the World Heritage List: a case on heritage and memory?

Chia-Yi Lin How museums say the 15:10 - National Museum of History (Tainan, Taiwan) unfathomable: 15:30 Who is speaking? The unfathomable memory from Taiwanese Voices from former During World War II colonial territories of 15:30 - Debate and Q&A on the lectures of Session 1 Imperial Japan 16:00

16:00 - Joint Session of ICMEMO and Coffee Break 16:30 FIHRM (Federation of International Human Rights Museums) Liu Ru Chairs: Carla Prat (ICMEMO) 16:30 - Chinese Museums Association (Harbin, China) and Ying-Ying Lai (FIHRM) 16:50 The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army: The Black Box for Recording the inhuman atrocities of Unit 731

Junko Kanekiyo Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University 16:50 - (Kyoto, Japan) 17:10 Communicating History in the Exhibition: Kyoto Museum for World Peace’s challenge to open a discussion between students from former colonial territories and the colonizer

Chia-Li Chen 17:10 - National University of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan) 17:30 Representing Colonial Governance and Its War Crime: A Study on the Museum Narrative Complex in Taiwan

17:30 - Debate and Q&A on the lectures of Session 1 18:00 Day 3 - Tuesday, September 3rd Session 2: 13:30 - 16:00 / 16:30 - 18:00

David Leon 13:30 - Oxford University (UK) 13:50 Emptiness: A Buddhist Philosophical Perspective

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek 13:50 - 14:10 xhibit Vienna (Austria) Exhibiting the Past - Between Mental and Physical Mnemotechnics

Thomas Lutz 14:10 - Topography of the Terrors (Berlin, Germany) The Presence of Absence: 14:25 Tangible & Intangible, Presence & Absence at the Topography of The void that evokes Terrors loss in spaces of Martina Lehmannová 14:25 - remembrance... Lidice Memorial (Lidice, ) 14:40 How the concept of Mu Emptiness as a Concept of Commemoration at Lidice Memorial in Buddhist philosophy 14:40 - Coffee Break compares or contrasts 15:00 with the efforts of 15:00 - Presentation of examples on the subject from various member remembrance in Memorial 15:15 submissions Museums Kaja Sirok 15:15 - Session Chair (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 16:00 Chair: Kaja Sirok (ICMEMO) Round Table between the invited speakers and Q&A

16:00 - Coffee Break 16:30

16:30 - Open Discussion Continued and Closing Remarks 17:00

ICMEMO matters - Venue of the ICMEMO annual meeting 2020 - Establishing of ICMEMO working groups 17:00 - - Collaboration with the International Holocaust Remembrance 18:00 Alliance (IHRA) on drafting its guidelines for Safeguarding Sites: the IHRA charter for best practice - Memeber News Day 4 - Wednesday, September 4th Session 3: 13:30 - 16:00 / 16:30 - 18:00

Teresien da Silva 13:30 - Anne Frank House (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 13:50 The renewed Anne Frank House. The relevance of the story of Anne Frank

Julie Higashi 13:50 - Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (Kyoto, Japan) 14:05 The Changing Faces of Anne Frank in Japanese Post-War Memories

Kaja Sirok 14:05 - National Museum of Contemporary History (Ljubljana, 14:20 Slovenia) Anne Frank House: Anne Frank and walls around us 14:20 - Building Cultural Bridges Coffee Break 14:35 from Amsterdam to Kyoto Pao-Ning Yin 14:35 - National Taiwan University of Arts (Taipei,Taiwan) Chair: Kornelis Spaans (ICMEMO) 14:50 The exhibition in the AMA museum: Anne Frank meets comfort Karen Franklin (ICMEMO) women

Daniela Bueno Londoño 14:50 - Casa de la Memoria (Medellin, Colombia) 15:05 Bridges to build the future

Karen Franklin 15:05 - Leo Baeck Institute (New York, USA) 15:20 The Jewish dimension of the Anne Frank Story

15:20 - Debate on the lectures of session 3 16:00

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - Debate on the lectures of session 3 17:00

17:00 - ICMEMO matters 18:00 (continues from the previous day) Day 5 - Thursday, September 5th ICOM-ICMEMO-Off-Site-Meeting

Travel by train Nozomi No. 3 from JR Kyoto Station (8:27) to (10:03)

Take Streetcar from JR Hiroshima Station to the Atomic Bomb Dome (Streetcar No. 2 or No.6, one-way 180-yen, 16 min. ride)

11:00 Meet at the Atomic Bomb Dome (World Heritage)

11:15 - Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb 11:30 Victims. Greetings from Masaki Kano, Director

Hiroshima Peace 11:30 - Lunch at Serenade (1,500 Yen) International Conference Center, Memorial Museum 12:30 B2F

Open to all ICOM Kyoto 12:30 - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (HPMM) Conference Participants 13:30 Briefing by Takuo Takigawa, Director simultaneous interpretation provided, English to Japanese 13:30 - Memorial Hall/Reception Desk open 14:00

Symposium: Relics, Remains and Narratives from Ground Zero Session Chair: Julie Higashi (ICMEMO)

Opening Addresses: 14:00 - Kazumi Matsui, City Mayor of Hiroshima 14:55 Suay Aksoy, President of ICOM

Keynote: Clifford Chanin National September 11 Memorial and Museum (New York, USA) Public memory, private grief: The stakes of a Memorial Museum

14:55 - Intermission (Collect Questionnaire from audience) 15:15 Iratxe Momoitio Guernica Peace Museum, Spain How Guernica (the Spanish Civil War) changed the way wars were fought 15:15 - 15:55 Jane Klinger US Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington D.C., USA) The language of photographs and their hidden meanings

15:55 - Questions and anwers about the presentations 16:25

Closing Remarks: 16:25 Ophelia Leon, Chair of ICMEMO

Walk to the Hiroshima Museum of Art (HMA)

Reception at the Hiroshima Museum of Art Greetings from Hiroshima Museum of Art, Director Koji Ikeda 17:00 - 18:30 (HMA will be not be open to the general public on 9/5 during the reception)

18:30 Take Streetcar (No. 2, 6, or 1) at Kamiyacho to Hiroshima Station

19:36 JR Hiroshima Station ( train Nozomi No. 62) to JR Kyoto Station (21:16)

Transportation details Kyoto-Hiroshima-Kyoto: Travel by train JR Kyoto Station 8:27 – JR Hiroshima Station 10:03 (Nozomi No. 3) JR Hiroshima Station 19:36 - Kyoto Station 21:16 (Nozomi No. 62) (One Way: 10,400 Yen / Round Trip: 20,800 Yen) To purchase discounted tickets, please write to: [email protected] Please include the following: - Name of participant - Re: ICMEMO Off-site Meeting in Hiroshima. A link and Information on how you can purchase and pick up the tickets will be sent to you. Deadline: August 9 (Fri.): 18: 00 (JPS) Day 6 - Friday, September 6th ICOM Excursion Day

For tours, terms and registration see: http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/excursion.html

Day 7 - Saturday, September 7th Closing day of ICOM Kyoto 2019 Triennial

9:30 - Statutory Meeting: Extraordinary General Assembly 10:30

10:30 - Break 11:00

11:00 - Statutory Meeting: 34th ICOM General Assembly 13:30

13:30 - Lunch 14:45

14:45 - Statutory Meeting: 86th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting 16:00

17:30 - Closing Ceremony of the 25th ICOM General Conference 19:00 at the Kyoto National Museum

19:00 - Closing Party of the 25th ICOM General Conference 21:00 at the Kyoto National Museum

We acknowledge the generosity of our hosts and sponsors, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, KOICA, UNESCO,

ICOM, ICOM Japan, the City of Hiroshima, its Mayor, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Okinawa

Prefecture and the Okinawa Cabinet Office for its organization, hospitality and most generous contribution.

ICOM KYOTO 2019 Post-Conference Okinawa, Japan, 8th - 10th September 2019 for invited participants (application closed) Program: https://www8.cao.go.jp/okinawa/icom-postconf/icom-postconf_en.html Hotel choice in Kyoto (To be booked individually. No group reservations have been made)

1st choice: Hotel WBF Kyoto Shijo Nishikitei 284-1, Tenjinyamacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8221, Japan Tel. +81 (0)75-255-2253 https://www.hotelwbf.com/kyoto-nishikitei/en/

2st choice: Citadines Kyoto Karasuma-Gojo 432 Matsuya-cho Gojo-dori Karasuma- Higashiiru Shimogyo-ku Kyoto 600 8105, Japan Tel. +81753528900 https://www.citadines.com/en/japan/kyoto/citadines-karasuma-gojo-kyoto

Hotel choice in Siem Reap (To be booked individually. No group reservations have been made)

SiZen Retreat River road, Slarkram commune, Siem Reap, Cambodia Tel. (855) 063 964 740 http://www.sizen-retreat.com/