Dear reader,
In addition to our quarterly newsletter we send this news flash to inform you about some upcoming international workshops and programmes.
Do you have any questions or suggestions? Please let us know.
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| | The call for the international programme Sharing Stories on Contested Histories is open. We are looking for motivated participants from 24 partner countries who want to learn more about how they can ethically engage with complex heritage to shape more equitable futures. Young museum and heritage professionals have until 29 June to send us their application for this year’s edition of the programme.
How are museum and heritage professionals around the world responding to current societal challenges, such as the climate crisis and social inequalities? How do museums critically engage with their own histories and reflect on their role in society in the face of these challenges? How can they handle historic objects collected during colonial and navigate contestations over certain histories and heritage? These challenges are faced by many professionals around are the world. This programme approaches these challenges by bringing together professionals from different countries and backgrounds to exchange perspectives and develop new knowledge and practices together, and to explore how we can use cultural heritage and our work to address societal challenges.
The 2024 edition will be divided in two parts. From 26 September to 1 November online sessions will take place twice a week. From 9 to 17 November the physical programme will take place in the Netherlands. Click the button below to read more about the programme and on how to apply. | |
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| | | | Hereby
we cordially invite you to attend the international network event on Urban
Heritage in Times of Conflict. This
event takes place on 24 July 2024 from 13.00-18.00 hrs at the Cultural Heritage
Agency of the Netherlands at Smallepad 5 in Amersfoort.
Heritage
reflects an image of a city, reveals stories about its past and gives character
to the living environment. If managed properly, heritage can effectively
contribute to social, economic or environmental challenges and thus can serve
as a vital asset for future development. This year’s course Urban Heritage
Strategies (UHS) is tailored to the historic Ukrainian cities
that currently suffer from military threats as well as development pressure.
How do we shield the built heritage from attacks and development pressure? To
what extent can the historic features contribute to a sustainable recovery? How
important is the heritage for history and identity?
These challenges are addressed at the international
network event at the RCE on Wednesday 24 July. During this event you will
interact with international professionals in workshop sessions on the above
mentioned topics. The sessions contain lectures, debates and knowledge
exchange. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to play the serious game
on Water Threats. The event will be opened by a keynote speech from Oleksandra
Tkachenko, chairwomen UNUN (Ukraine-Netherlands Urban Network) and urban
planner at Kuiper Compagnons.
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| | | | We
cordially invite you to join the international workshop ‘n x r | designing for
extremes - heritage strategies to sea level rise in the harbor of Scheveningen’
in the week of 17-21 of June 2024.
The harbor
of Scheveningen, safely sheltered behind the dunes bordering the North sea,
dates back to the end of the 19th century. Today it is considered a valued
historic port-scape. But what is the future of the historic features, facing
expected climatic change? How and to what extent can the historic features
accommodate future water challenges? These are the questions addressed during
the workshop n x r | designing for extremes.
This
workshop is part of a long lasting collaboration between the Netherlands and
Brazil on water challenges and heritage management. In this year’s workshop the
collaborating partners RCE and Federal University of Pernambuco are joined by
the Municipality of The Hague, Delft University of Technology as well as the
Climate-Network of Brazil (Ministry of Science and Innovation of Brazil) and
Recife City Hall.
The
workshop is open for students and young professionals in planning, architecture
and heritage. The participants will be supervised by a Brazilian-Dutch team of
experts.
The
workshop has a maximum capacity of 30 participants.
When: 17th
- 21st June 2024
Where:
Scheveningen harbor, The Hague | |
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| | On April 1 Remco Vermeulen started at the RCE as Coordinator international cooperation collection management. Remco is responsible, among other things, for setting up visitor programs and museum trainings in the context of the International Heritage Cooperation programme and the Colonial Collections Consortium. Remco previously worked at DutchCulture as an advisor for cultural cooperation with Indonesia, and at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam as an Urban Heritage Strategies expert. Welcome Remco!
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| | | The concept
of decolonising museums means different things in different parts of the world.
ICOM, the International Council of Museums, established a Working Group on
Decolonisation. During this conference members of the Working Group share
experiences from their daily practice, offering a broad variety of
perspectives. Speakers from Barbados, Benin, Canada, India, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Taiwan and Zambia, as well as from European countries, shed light on what decolonisation
means for their work.
Many
museums were established through colonialism. Discussions will include how to
decolonise archival and artifact collections, how to work with diaspora
communities and Indigenous peoples to reconcile colonial histories, how to
renew conventional colonial museums and unpack colonial legacies, how to build
a museum in the post-colonial era, the challenges countries and communities of
origin meet in claiming back their cultural belongings, and what working in
this field implies for the wellbeing of museum staff | |
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| | | The International Heritage Cooperation programme of the Cultural Heritage Agency of
the Netherlands follows from the International Cultural Policy
Framework 2021-2024 of the Dutch government. Other organisations executing the
national International Heritage Cooperation programme are DutchCulture, the
National Archives of the Netherlands, KIEN and the Embassies of the Netherlands
in the partner countries. For more information on their activities, see their
respective websites.
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