Triggering the memory of the historic house through loss (and regain)
Partners and Sponsors: ICOM-Serbia, DEMHIST, Ministry of Culture of The Republic of Serbia.
The focus of this conference is the involvement of the private (family-held) or state (public) sector house museum in restoring and safeguarding the memory that has been lost for a variety of reasons including war, state confiscation, colonialist actions, and more. We, as museum professionals, have a moral obligation to thoroughly examine and update the narratives. Many examples of these houses can be found in Serbia, some of which will be seen at the conference in Belgrade. All of these houses hold a distinctive layer of the complex story of historic dwellings as a result of the effects of the Second World War in this region of the world. The main focus of this conference is on how managing difficult heritage and having challenges with heritage protection (risk management due to natural or human-made disasters) can lead to the same concerns of lost memory. These issues need to be addressed not only in the context of European mid-20th century history, but also across the globe, in communities ravaged by colonialist actions such as the Maori of New Zealand, through the Sepik River communities of Papua New Guinea, indigenous communities in South and Central America, sub-Saharan Africa and First Nations of the Americas. When it comes to keeping the fire of remembrance alive and relevant in the present, what is distinctive to individual historic and traditional homes around the world but also a common factor? What tools are available to maintain the flame of memory? How can historic house museums preserve the history that's still embued in a house's walls yet physically lost? Is the physical non-existence of the memory-holder i.e. the object, so important that it can not be replaced by a simple narrative or a copy? Can the implementation of memory-triggering techniques help us all, wherever in the globe, keep stories alive even after leaving a historic house? What do we choose to remember and what do we decide to forget? One can wonder whether the memory chosen is still relevant to the audience or addresses societal issues. The message of the forgotten, however, may be more crucial for careful examination and may contribute to a community's healing. This leads to the question of how do you curate the lost and forgotten?
Theme and call for papers BGD23
The Royal Compound: Meeting point
The Royal Compound: In case you miss the shutle
Keynote speech by Arc. David Kojo Derban (Ghana)
15.00 - 16.30
Keynote speech by Nelly P. Abboud
10.00 - 11.30
Vladana Putnik Prica, PhD. Senior Research Associate
University in Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy, Art History Department
Angelina Banković, PhD. Museum Advisor
The Belgrade City Museum
Ana Radovanac Živanov, Conservator Researcher, Senior Consultant
Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia
Dina Debeljak, Curator
The Heritage House Belgrade
Nebojša Antešević, PhD. Research-professional Associate Milan Zloković Foundation Research Associate
Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia
Boat Sirena: Meeting point
Boat Sirena: In case you miss the shutle
The conference will take place both in situ and in hybrid form to accommodate everyone. There will be no separate registration fee for in-person and virtual participation. Please note: It's compulsory for all speakers to register for the conference. We are unable to offer any financial compensation and/or waive the registration fee. However, speakers may apply for one of the limited number of travel grants available (Jeanne Watson Bursary or ICOM Young Professional Travel Grant).
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DEMHIST welcomes paper presentations and posters.
* A description (400 words) for the reviewers with information about the topic and why the paper is important to be included in the programme.
* An abstract (150 words) that will appear in the conference programme and online if your presentation is accepted.
* A short bio (100 words) for each speaker.
* Papers which address the conference themes.
* Papers which are deliverable in the format and time allotted.
* There is a possibility to accommodate a limited number of live-streamed or recorded video presentations by speakers who may be unable to travel. However, to encourage full participation in the conference, preference will be given to in-person presentations.
* All proposals must be sent in English. However, there is a possibility to accommodate presentations in other languages, for example in the form of pre-recorded video with English subtitles, should this be clearly requested by prospective speakers in their proposals.
* Proposers whose papers are selected for the conference program are expected to attend the entire conference, whether virtual or in person, so as to participate in and contribute to the full range of conversations that result from other presentations.
* The programme committee’s decision is final.
Please fill in an online form in the tab "Paper & Poster Submission" at www.belgrademhist.com
The conference will take place both in situ and in hybrid form to accommodate everyone. There will be no separate registration fee for in-person and virtual participation. Please note: It's compulsory for all speakers to register for the conference. We are unable to offer any financial compensation and/or waive the registration fee. However, speakers may apply for one of the limited number of travel grants available (Jeanne Watson Bursary or ICOM Young Professional Travel Grant).
Arc. David Kojo Derban has been a chartered Architect and associate member of the Ghana Institute of Architects for the last twenty years. He is a past secretary for public relations of the institute and the C.E.O of Ethnik International Ltd, a research based Architectural and project management firm in Accra.
He holds a Bachelors in Design from the Department of Architecture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology – Kumasi. (1994) As an undergrad, he developed an interest in the social, environment and cultural affairs of rural Sub -Saharan Africa. He combined my regular studies of basic with his own personal research into heritage architecture and traditional architecture. During his post graduate years, he gained a keen interest in the Civilizations of Africa and History of cultures of West Africa.
For the last 10 years, he has been an advocate for the preservation of Heritage places and structures of Ghana, working on proposals for the Forts and Castles with the Ghana Museum and Monuments Board, designing regional cultural centers for the National Commission on Culture and plans for the Regeneration of Old Accra for the Ministry of Tourism. In 2020 he gained admission to undertake his MPhil studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana with key interests in researching into Heritage buildings, Historiography, History of Architecture in Africa.
His firm has undertaken responsibility for the preservation of Fort Amsterdam, the ruins of an 17th century slave fort in Ghana and its tourism potentials, the documentation of buildings of heritage and consultant for the establishment for private, home and corporate galleries and museums in Accra Ghana.
I am a museum educator with over fifteen years of experience in the field. From 2006 to 2016, I served as an education and visitor's service officer at the Lebanese Museum of Prehistory at the University of Saint Joseph-Beirut. During this time, I was responsible for developing and implementing educational programs and services for museum visitors.
From 2016 until 2019, I took on a new role as research assistant and later on as Acting Curator at the Ethnography Museum of the University of Balamand. Over the course of three years, I oversaw the museum's collection and exhibitions, and worked to engage visitors through educational programming and outreach.
I was also an active member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), having joined the organization in 2009 and stayed until 2022. I have served as a board member and the MENA regional coordinator for the ICOM Committee of Education and Cultural Action from 2019 until 2022. In this role, I worked to promote education and cultural action in the museum sector across the MENA region.
Through my work as a museum educator and my involvement in ICOM, I was committed to promoting access to education and cultural experiences through museums. In 2017, I co-founded an organization called Museolab with a focus on promoting cultural heritage using experiential learning methodology.
From 2020 until 2022, I worked with a German organization called MitOst as a mentor for cultural projects happening in the MENA region.
I am passionate about researching community archaeology, public memory, oral history, museum education and collective impact and I have published several articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals and books.
The Work of Docomomo Serbia in Preserving the Heritage of Modern Architecture” Vladana Putnik Prica works as a senior research associate at the Art History Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University in Belgrade. Her field of research is the history of architecture in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia in the XX century. She defended her Ph.D. thesis “Architecture of Sokol Halls in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia” in 2014, which was published as a book in 2015. Her book “Residential Architecture in Belgrade 1918−1941” from 2021 was awarded by the Belgrade Architecture Salon. She is the coordinator of Docomomo Serbia and a member of ICOMOS Serbia.
Angelina Banković (1984) holds PhD in Art History, specially directed towards problems of museology and heritology, as well as masters in Theory of Culture and degree in Art History. She is employed in the Belgrade City Museum as Head of the Department of History of Culture and Art and museum advisor, in charge of the Collection of Architecture and Urban Planning. Since 2015 she was in charge, as project manager, of several projects realized in the Belgrade City Museum, also supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia. As an author and co-author she took part in realization of several exhibitions, organized by the Belgrade City Museum. Her main professional interests include history of architecture and urban planning, especially of Belgrade, as well as interpretation, preservation and use of cultural heritage. She presents results of her research in professional and science conferences, exhibitions, papers, etc.
She is a member of ICOM Serbia and DOCOMOMO Serbia.
For complete bibliography please visit: https://independent.academia.edu/AngelinaBankovic
Ana Radovanac Živanov is an Art Historian and works as a senior consultant at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia in Belgrade, at the Department for Research, Protection and Documentation. In addition, she is finishing her Ph.D. teases at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Department of Art History, at the Seminar for Museology and Heritage studies with the topic Home of Jevrem Grujić, as a space for realization of social life in Belgrade. Fields of scientific interest: history of architecture in Serbia between two wars, conservation of cultural heritage, interpretative methodologies and concepts, memory studies, history of private life. She is an author of many professional and scientific articles, as well as a participant in domestic and foreign conferences and symposiums. She is also a member of ICOMOS, Interpret Europe, and the Society of Conservators of Serbia.
Dina Pavić holds a B.A. and master’s degree from the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She worked at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade as an associate in the October Salon, a representative international manifestation in the field of visual art in Serbia. Since 2014 she has worked as a curator at the Heritage House, she oversees the collections bequeathed by Petar Lubarda and Kosta Bogdanović. She has authored, co-authored, and curated numerous exhibitions focused on specific theoretical problems, as well as many retrospective and solo exhibitions. Her texts have been published in various catalogues, periodicals, and essay collections. Her research and professional interests focus on the phenomena of modernism, Yugoslav art space in the 20th century and socialist heritage.
Dr. Nebojša Antešević, architect, scenographer, and architectural historian. He studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft (Kingdom of the Netherlands), completed his studies in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade (2011), master's studies in applied art - scenography at the Faculty of Art and Design of Megatrend University (2013), and received his doctorate in the narrow field of architectural history at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2022). He was a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He is a Research Associate of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of Serbia and a Research-professional Associate of the Milan Zloković Foundation. Field of research work: history and theory of Serbian and Yugoslav architecture of the 20th century, Serbian contemporary architecture and theater scenography. He is the author of several scientific and professional works.
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