Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
- Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
- 13-15 September 2024
- MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria + Online
Pro-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Indigeneity and Inclusive Museum & Heritage Studies, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneshwar, India; Professor and Pro Chancellor, Kaling Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneshwar & UNESCO Chair on Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development; Emeritus Faculty, Australian National University, Canberra; Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/India/USA; Founding Member, 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; formerly full Professor of World Heritage and Sustainable Development at the University of Split located in the World Heritage City of Split; first full Professor of Museum Studies in Australia at the University of Queensland, Brisbane; and prior to that full Professor and Director of Sustainable Heritage Development Programs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; extensive publication record includes the flagship project and publication, World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders, Cambridge University Press & UNESCO Publishing , for the 40th Anniversary of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention launched in Kyoto, Japan, 2012 (English, Korean & French).
The Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Creative Bureaucracy & Civic City in a Nomadic World, United Kingdom
“What Triggers Change and the Transformative Effect”
Director, Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies, Ethics and Material Culture at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Hope in Solidarity: Towards a Pitt Rivers Museum that Centres Cultural Care and Repair”
Head of Programmes & Stakeholders Outreach, UNESCO, France
"Artvocacy & Intersectionality: Protecting and Promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in Museum Education and Outreach"
Consultant/Independent Scholar, Staples & Charles, USA
Director of the Weltmuseum Wien, Austria
"Museums as Inclusive Spaces"
Director of Dommuseum Wien, Austria
Managing Director, ICOM Austria
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. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2024 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
University of Bologna, USA
(In-Person)
University of Winchester, UK
(In-Person)
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
(In-Person)
Agnes Scott College, USA
(In-Person)
University of St Andrews, Scotland
(In-Person)
University of California San Diego, United States
(In-Person)
University of Toronto, Canada
(In-Person)
University of Naples, Italy
(In-Person)
Concordia University, Canada
(In-Person)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(Online Only)
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, India
(Online Only)
University of Houston, United States
(Online Only)
Florida State University, United States
(Online Only)
Hyderabad, India & Sydney, Australia
Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria
Bhubaneswar, Odisha