Papers from

Can Oral History Make Objects Speak?

ICOM-ICME ANNUAL MEETING, 2005

Nafplion, Greece, October 18-22, 2005

The International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME) of ICOM

In collaboration with the Hellenic National Committee of ICOM, and The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation

• Zvjezdana Antoš: Stories Of Museum Objects.
• Henry (Jatti) Bredekamp: Oral History, Museums and Communities: a view from the Cape of Good Hope
• Galia Gavish: Every object tells a tale…
• Lydia Icke-Schwalbe: The right of living proved by local items with oral history and traditions – the case of the Mundas in India (now JHARKHAND)
• Georgia Kakourou-Chroni: In Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother's house
• Dionyssia Kallinikou: Protection of traditional cultural expressions or expressions of folklore
• Bärbel Kerkhoff-Hader : Myth making and the relics of life: Work in Progress for an Exhibition
• Lene Millinger: MIME Migrating Memories. - A Case Study from Malmö Museums, Sweden
• Irene Nakou: Oral history, museums and history education
• Olga Orlic: How to present oral history at a museum exhibition?
• Daniel Winfree Papuga: How do our ethical codes relate to safeguarding intellectual property?
• Maria Patsarika: Baltic Memories Or, When A Tribute to Collective Memories Becomes Promotional Tool
• George Pehlivanides & Dimitris Papageorgiou: Creating Representational Patterns from Oral History Records: The case study of Ermou Street at Mytilini, Lesvos
• Laurella Rinçon: "My voice in a glass box": objectifying processes in collecting practices at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden
• Sophia Roque-Melas: Reminiscence Programmes In The Museum: The Example Of The Handicraft – Industrial Educational Museum
• Martin Skrydstrup: Some Field Notes on Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property
• Roya Taghiyeva: Azerbaijani Ritual Shadda Carpets as Guarder of the People's Oral Heritage
• Maria Velioti-Georgopoulos: The archive of a handicraftsman-merchant from Asia Minor in Nafplio: written documents and oral testimonies.
• Maria Vlachaki: Making the history of our school-museum "alive"
• Wend Wendland: Safeguarding Cultural Heritage, Protecting Intellectual Property and Respecting the Rights and Interests of Indigenous Communities: What Role for Museums, Archives and Libraries?
• Emma Willson: Their Past Your Future 1945- 2005
• Chul-In Yoo: Creating and Presenting Oral Life Histories in Exhibitions.

See also

• General information, including the program and the post-conference tour.
• Photos from the conference and post-conference tour.