ICOM international committee of memorial museums in remembrance ICMEMO of the victims of public crimes ICOM Kyoto 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 Museum (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/ Japan 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 Taiwan 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 - Taipei 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, Czech Republic) 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 Hiroshima (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.