Webinar 1: ‘Community-based museums in times of crisis’

[Museos comunitarios en tiempos de crisis]

Hosted through a collaboration of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project, ICOM-Europe and ICOM-LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean).

The five speakers in the first webinar are members of our EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Steering Committee and Advisory Board, each with advanced expertise in community-based museums and social resilience who have written for our project compendium On Sustainable and Community Museums . The session will be chaired by the Project Coordinator, Karen Brown (University of St Andrews), and is jointly organised by Lauran Bonilla-Merchav (ICOM Costa Rica; University of Costa Rica) and Jamie Allan Brown (University of St Andrews).

List of Speakers invited to speak for 10 minutes each, followed by a Q&A:

Webinar 1: Friday 12 June, 1600h UK BST
Topic: Community-based museums at times of crisis
Co-moderators: Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Karen Brown
Languages: English; moderation in English and in Spanish

KEYNOTE: Hugues de Varine (France)

SPEAKERS: Luís Raposo (Portugal) ; Beatriz Espinoza (Chile) ; Teresa Morales (Mexico) ; Samuel Franco Arce (Guatemala)

Webinar 2: ‘Community-based museums in times of crisis: community experience’

[Museos comunitarios en tiempos de crisis: la experiencia comunitaria]

Hosted through a collaboration of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project, ICOM-Europe and ICOM-LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean).

During the second Webinar to be held on 29 June 2020, researchers from European and Latin American museums will share insights from their case studies affected by crises.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its catastrophic effect on museum and heritage communities, three new webinars will focus on the topic of community-based museums in times of crisis. Consisting of four or five speakers in each session, our online discussions, open to all, are created in the context of reinforcing cultural relations between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean in the frame of the Horizon2020 EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project.

List of Speakers invited to speak for 10 minutes each, followed by a Q&A:

Webinar 2: Monday, June 29, 2020 at 4:00 PM UTC
Topic: Community-based museums at times of crisis: community experience

Languages: English; moderation in English and in Spanish

KEYNOTE: James Brown

SPEAKERS: Peter Davis (England) ; Amalia G. Castelli González (Perú) ; Karin Weil (Chile) ; Alissandra Cummins (Barbados); Ronald Martínez Villareal (Costa Rica); Jorge Hermosilla (España).

Webinar 3 - Community-based museums in times of crisis: technology

[Museos comunitarios en tiempos de crisis: la tecnología]

Hosted through a collaboration of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project, ICOM-Europe and ICOM-LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean).

Our years of working bi-regionally as a team have demonstrated that museums cannot only plan and prepare for a disaster, but can also be reliably called upon to help communities recover when disaster strikes (both in the short and long term), and to engage in processes of documentation and memory of traumatic events (https://www.eu-lac.org/vmcarib/panels/). By highlighting their social function, museums can take on a relevant role in the containment, reflection, and memory of crises – when they are over.
During the third Webinar to be held on 10 July will be specifically devoted to the role of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Webinar 2: Friday 10 July 2020 at 16:00 UTC
Topic: Community-based museums at times of crisis
Co-moderators: Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Karen Brown
Languages: English; moderation in English and in Spanish

SPEAKERS: Gustavo San Román (España) ; Kate Keohane (Scotland) ; Julián Roa Triana (Colombia) ; Alan Miler (Scotland); Kaye Hall (Barbados); Catherine Anne Cassidy (Scotland); Mário Antas (Portugal); Jamie Allan Brown (Scotland); Claudio Gnessi (Italia);