Organised by the Public History as new Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project, the 2022 symposium focuses on groups and communities becoming active participants in the production of history in museums.
Different publics do not simply consume history in museums (as visitors or users) but may also contribute to preserving, producing, and exhibiting history. The symposium will explore questions such as what groups and communities can bring to the production of history in museums and their impact on historical narratives and on the institutions representing them. It will also delve into the limits and challenges of participatory practices and co-production processes in history museums.
What can public participants (not) do? What skills and knowledge are necessary? What are the examples of collaborative decision-making processes that allow contributions from the different publics and how do they affect the role and functioning of museums?
Join us and our international panellists to discover more and engage in this stimulating and relevant conversation!
Programme
09.00
Welcome and opening of the Symposium
09.15
Panel 1: Different expertise and voices in history co-production
Chair: Thomas Cauvin
Keeping coal mining alive’: when eyewitnesses co-produce public histories of mining work
Grace Simpson
Participation at Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino: A complex set of practices for a complex territory
Elena Montanari
Guraban and Our Journeys Our Stories: Chinese Voices and Aboriginal stories- collaborative community history at Hurstville Museum & Gallery
Claire Baddeley Vanessa Jacob&
10.30
Coffee break
10.45
Panel 2: Participation with publics, citizen science and co-creation
Chair: Grace Simpson
Museum Clubs in Poland as tools to facilitate participation in a historical and contemporary perspective
Marta Kopiniak
Leeds Museums and Galleries 200th birthday biography
Catherine Robins
Collecting the Anthropocene Together: Developing a Participatory, Digital and experimental platform on Environmental Transformations
Aurelia Desplain
12.00
Lunch break
13.00
Panel 3: Diversifying the narratives through participation
Chair: Camilla Portesani
Co-designing University Museum Together with Students: A Case Study from Keio Museum Commons, Japan
Dr Goki MiyakitaYu Homma &
Community-based, Collaborative Curating with Children in Cape Town
Monica Eileen Patterson
The Fear of Participation in Pakistani Museums
Dr Shaila Bhatti
14.15
Coffee break
14.30
Panel 4: Multiple voices in museums and their impact
Chair: Chris Reynolds
A community of creators: The multiple impacts of Library of Congress crowdsourcing volunteers
Abigail Shelton
Closing or widening the gap? Participation and super-diversity
Tina de Gendt
Who says communities need museums? Where does the real expertise lie?
Graham Black
15.45
Coffe break
16.00
Panel 5: Critical reflections on participation and its principles
Chair: Tina de Gendt
Voices of ’68: The role of co-production in meeting the challenges of the past in Northern Ireland
Chris Reynolds
Public history and participation: the role of trust in co-creative practice
Lorna Elms
Museum participation as labor: An ethnographic inquiry
Irene HildenAndrei Zavadski &
17.15
Conclusive remarks and thanks
More information required? Please contact us at phacs@uni.lu.