Istanbul Museum Conference Announces 3 New Plenaries

Joining an already impressive line-up of plenary speakers at the Third International Conference on the Inclusive Museum are Alissandra Cummins (President of ICOM), Margaret Anderson (Director of History South Australia) and Amareswar Galla (ICOM/Queensland University)…

• Alissandra Cummins: Alissandra Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in the History of Art from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies from Leicester University,UK. A recognized authority on Caribbean heritage, museum development and art, she was elected a Fellow of the Museums Association (U.K), a first for the Caribbean. More…

• Margaret Anderson: Margaret Anderson is the Director of History South Australia, a position she has held since December 2000. She has worked in museums in Western Australia and South Australia, where she was inaugural director of the Migration Museum. She also lectured in history and Australian studies at Monash University, where she introduced a course in material culture studies. More…

• Amareswar Galla: Born and educated in both south and north India, including Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Professor Galla provides strategic cultural leadership in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region as the Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. (http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au) More…