ICOM - ICME Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea 2009

Museums for Reconciliation and Peace
Roles of Ethnographic Museums in the World

Seoul, Korea, October 19 - 21 (22 - 24 post conference tour), 2009

ICME (the ICOM International Committee for Museums Ethnography) will hold its 2009 annual conference in Seoul, Korea on 19-21 October, 2009. The meeting will be hosted by The National Folk Museum of Korea.

>>>> thanks to our great hosts: lots of soul in seoul >>> go for the impressions done by the colleagues there

(The ICME Triennial in 2010 will be held in Shanghai, China)

Previous conferences:

2008: "Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage, Museum and Cultural Perspectives", Jerusalem, Israel

2007: "The World under One Roof: Past, Present and Future Ethnographic Approaches to Universality", Vienna, Austria
2006: "Connections, Communities and Collections", Miami Beach, Florida, USA

2005: "Can Oral History Make Objects Speak?", Nafplion, Greece,

2004: "Intangible Cultural Heritage", Seoul, Korea.

2003: "Cultural Traditions in Danger of Disappearing in Contemporary Society - A Challenge for Museums", Sibiu, Romania.

2002: "High Expectations, but Low Funding: How do poor museums meet their targets?", Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia.

2001: ICME sessions at the ICOM TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE, Barcelona, Spain

2000: "Diverse Trends in Ethnographic Exhibitions", Copenhagen, Denmark.

1999: "The Role of Ethnological Museums in the Multicultural Society", Mexico City, Mexico.

1998: "Cultural Diversity: Museums and the presentation of the Other. Repatriation", Melbourne, Australia.

1997: "Museums of ethnography/ethnology and the public - exhibitions and visitor-oriented programmes", Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1996: "Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Knowledge Systems", Bhopal, India.

1995: "Museum and communities", Stavanger, Norway.

1994: "Museums and Xenophobia", Leipzig, Germany

1992: "Museums: re-thinking the boundaries?", Québec, Canada.

1991: "Towards a Europe of cultures", Munich, Germany.

1990: "Museums and development", Copenhagen, Denmark.

1989: "The cultural dimension of development", The Hague, The Netherlands.

1988: "Museums and the development of small islands", Claki, Greece, in collaboration with MINOM and ICOFOM.

1987: "The presentation of culture", Leiden, The Netherlands.

1986: "Museums and the Future of Our Heritage: Emergency Call", Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1985: Meeting of the ICME "Working Group on Folk Art", Greece.

1983: "Museums in a developing world", London, UK.

1982: ICME General meeting, Commonwealth Institute, London, UK.

1981: Meeting of the ICME "Working Group on the Return and/or Restitution of Cultural Property", Copenhagen, Denmark.

1980: "The World's Heritage: The Museum's Responsibility", Mexico City, Mexico.

1979: "Vision and visualilsation - the future of the ethnographic museum", symposium at Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.

"The development of ethnography in the regional museums of Southeast Asia", workshop organised by the Asian Sub-Committe of ICME, Bangkok, Thailand.

1978: "Visualisation of theoretical concepts in anthropology", New Delhi, India. 2 meetings of the "working group on "Restitution of cultural properties to the people and lands of origin", Copenhagen, Denmark.

1977: "Museums and Cultural Exchanges", ICOM General Conference, Leningrad and Moscow, USSR

1976: Joint meeting with the museum working group of the 'Deutsch Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde', Bremen, Germany.

1975: ICME meeting in Paris, France

1974: "The Museum and the Modern World", ICOM General Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

"The role of anthropological museums in national and international education" Randers, Denmark.

"Urgent Ethnology" conference in colaboration with UNESCO & ICOM Canada, Ottawa.

1973: "The ethics of acquisition in ethnography", Milwaukee, WI, USA (see ICOM news 27.1/2, 1974)

1972: ICME planning meeting in Madrid, Spain.

1971: ICME suspended as as an ICOM committee due to inactivity and the resignation of both the ICME president and secretary. Seminar on the reconsitution of ICME during the ICOM General Conference, Paris, France.

1970: No activity

1969: No activity

1968: "Museums and Research", ICOM General Conference, in Cologne and Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

1967: ICME meeting of experts on urgent ethnology. Baghdad, Iraq

1965: "Training of Museum Personnel", ICOM General Conference, Washington, Philadelphia, & New York, USA

1962: "The role of museums of history and folklore in a changing world", ICOM General Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands

1959: The 6th General Assembly of ICOM passes resolutions on Ethnographical Museums as Research Centres, and the Role of Ethnographical Museums in the Preservation and Diffusion of Handicrafts of Artistic Quality Made in Pre-industrialized Societies.

"The role of ethnographic museums as an instrument for research", ICOM General Conference, Stockholm, Sweden

1956: ICOM General Conference, Basel, Zurich, Schaffhouse, Neuchâtel, and Geneva, Switzerland,

1953: "Museums and international understanding", ICOM General Conference, Genoa, Milano, Bergamo, Italy

1951: Meeting of the ICOM Commission on Racial Questions, which was a subcommittee of ICME. Paris, France

1950: ICOM General Conference, London, United Kingdom

1946: ICOM is founded in Paris, France, making a resolution to set up a committee for "Museums of Ethnography (including folk art and culture)"