Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA, 22-24 April 2022
Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA, 22-24 April 2022
Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA, 22-24 April 2022
Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA, 22-24 April 2022

Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

  • 2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
  • 22-24 April 2022
  • Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA

2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum

The triangulation of BLM, Climate Emergency and the Pandemic has provided an opportunity for us to rethink the ways in which the institution of the museum could become inclusive and continue to transform to become relevant, reflexive and confronting of seamless global realities. Series of surveys and webinars by ICOM, UNESCO and partners at our seminal International Research Network on the Inclusive Museum are charting out inspirational, innovative and resourceful pathways, often untrodden, for us to consider and traverse. As we meet in Philadelphia, leading-edge thinkers will open the floor for researchers presenting their ongoing interrogation of the multivocality and poly dimensional avatars of decolonised and relevant museums in 2022.

2022 Plenary Speakers

The Fifteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum featured online only plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Dr. Lonnie G Bunch III

Dr. Lonnie G Bunch III

14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

Dr. Deborah A. Thomas

Dr. Deborah A. Thomas

"Undoing the Museum: Toward Ethnographic Opacity"?

The R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Manal Ataya

Dr. Manal Ataya

"Accessibility is not a Privilege but a Right: A Case of Sharjah Museums"

Director-General, Sharjah Museums Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Dr. Nick Merriman

Dr. Nick Merriman

"Developing mass participation for all?"

Director of the Horniman Museum and Gardens, London and Honorary Professor of Museum Studies, University of Manchester, UK

Research Network Chair

Amareswar Galla

Amareswar Galla

Professor of Inclusive Cultural Leadership and Director, International Centre for Inclusive Cultural Leadership (ICICL), and Dean of Faculty Development and Leadership, Anant National University, Ahmedabad, India; Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/India/USA; UNITWIN-UNESCO Network – Tourism, Culture and Development, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Former Vice President, ICOM, Paris, and former President, ICOM of the Asia Pacific, Paris

Local Conference Hosts

Daniel Tucker

Daniel Tucker

Director of Socially-Engaged & Studio Art and Assistant Professor, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia PA

Claudine Thomas

Claudine Thomas

Interim Chief Academic Officer/Academic Dean at Moore College of Art & Design

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities, provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2022 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are listed below.

Giuseppina Addo

Giuseppina Addo

Malmö University, Sweden

Felicia Ingram

Felicia Ingram

Drexel University, USA

Janelle Christine Simmons

Janelle Christine Simmons

William Paterson University, USA

​Jungwon Lee

​Jungwon Lee

Kyungpook National University, Korea

Zahrasadat Hosseini

Zahrasadat Hosseini

Oklahoma State University, United States

Cecilia Lazzeretti

Cecilia Lazzeretti

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italyl

Yael Horowitz

Yael Horowitz

George Washington University, USA

Mariana Bertelli Pagotto

Mariana Bertelli Pagotto

RMIT University Melbourne, Australia

Chiara Bartolini

Chiara Bartolini

University of Bologna, Italy

Rebecca Gibson

Rebecca Gibson

Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Heather McLaughlin

Heather McLaughlin

Drexel University, USA

Kimberly Thomas

Kimberly Thomas

Florida State University, USA

Conference Partners