INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE INCLUSIVE MUSEUM AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES 4 - 6 AUGUST 2014 ONMUSEUMS.COM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE INCLUSIVE MUSEUM www.onmuseums.com First published in 2014 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Publishing, LLC www.commongroundpublishing.com © 2014 Common Ground Publishing All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact [email protected]. TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter from Bill Cope ......................................................................................................................... 1 Welcome Letter from Amareswar Galla ............................................................................................................ 2 About Common Ground ................................................................................................................................... 3 The Inclusive Museum Knowledge Community ................................................................................................. 4 The International Advisory Board for the Inclusive Museum Community ........................................................ 7 The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum Journal and Book Series ..................................................... 8 Submission Timeline .................................................................................................................................... 9 International Award For Excellence..............................................................................................................10 Journal Subscriptions, Hybrid Open Access, Additional Services ................................................................11 The Inclusive Museum Book Imprint ............................................................................................................13 The Inclusive Museum Conference ..................................................................................................................16 Conference Program and Schedule .................................................................................................................19 Daily Schedule ............................................................................................................................................20 Conference Highlights .................................................................................................................................21 Plenary Speakers ........................................................................................................................................22 Graduate Scholars ......................................................................................................................................26 Schedule of Sessions .................................................................................................................................28 List of Participants ......................................................................................................................................44 Scholar ...........................................................................................................................................................48 Notes ..............................................................................................................................................................50 1 2014 Museum Conference Dear Delegate, Welcome to the Seventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum which brings together museum practitioners, researchers, and teachers to discuss the nature, objectives and future shape of the museum. The conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for a particular relationship to an innovative museum or local museum practices. The conversations at this conference weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, institutional pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses a broad variety of perspectives and practices. In addition to the Inclusive Museum Conference, Common Ground also hosts conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including aging, food studies, diversity, learning, sustainability, and the interdisciplinary social sciences, to name several. Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are also committed to creating a more accessible, open and reliable peer review process. Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for scholars from developing countries and for researchers from institutions that are historically teaching-focused. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://onmuseums.com/. We are also proud to announce Scholar, created in an association between Common Ground and the University of Illinois. If the social glue that holds together Facebook is 'friends' and the stickiness of Twitter is having 'followers', then the common bond created in Scholar is 'peers' working together in knowledge producing communities. We call this a ‘social knowledge’ space. Not only can you join the Inclusive Museum community in Scholar, you can also create your own knowledge communities and use Scholar as a learning space, with a strong focus on peer-to-peer dialogue and structured feedback. For more information, visit www.cgscholar.com. This is the longer story of the Inclusive Museum Conference. The shorter story includes a phenomenal amount of careful planning and thinking on the part of Professor Amareswar Galla of the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum; W. Richard West Jr., President and CEO of the Autry National Center of the American West; Stacy Liberman of the Autry National Center of the American West; Gloria Mejia of the Autry National Center of the American West; and Jennifer Warner of the Autry National Center of the American West. On a more personal note, many thanks to thank our Common Ground colleagues who have put so much work into this conference: Jamie Burns, Izabel Szary, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish. We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. We also hope you will be able to join us for the Eighth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, to be held 7-9 August 2015 at the National Science Center of India, India. Yours Sincerely, Bill Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing Professor, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 2014 Museum Conference 2 Dear Delegate, The Seventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is hosted by the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles. The Autry’s President and CEO W. Richard (Rick) West, Jr. is also Founding Director and Director Emeritus of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Coast-to-coast throughout the Americas and the Western hemisphere, Rick’s leadership has been seminal in locating the Native universe and a multitude of other world views in the intercultural dialogue of inclusion. It is with this deep experience that he challenges us here to address the theme: Shared Visions and Shared Histories. The Inclusive Museum knowledge community is a tireless advocate for developing the museum as a civic space for all people, irrespective of their backgrounds, legacies, and inheritances. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen succinctly states the reality that ‘…. we all have many affiliations and associations, and each of these identities fit into the way we lead – and can continue to lead - our lives, without displacing other identities.’ (Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, 2007). The Inclusive Museum Knowledge Community facilitates an ongoing dialogue with this aspiration throughout the year – registration is for the three days here and then for the next year on line. Participatory democracy is facilitated in the digital domain through triangulating Collections – Connectivity – Communities. Collections are embedded knowledge systems with layers of significance. Connectivity provides the means for engagement and interactivity through the affordances and possibilities in the digital domain. Stakeholder communities, in all their meanings, manifestations, cultural understandings; and the multitude of publics and audiences remain in the liminal space between the collections and connectivities – the aspirational Inclusive Museum. The 28th General Assembly of ICOM, meeting on 17 August, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, resolved to ‘Evaluate