Nineteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
- The Future of Museum Narratives
- 22-24 September 2026
- Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia + Online
The Nineteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Associate Professor, University of Sydney; Pro-Vice-Chancellor Indigenous (Academic), Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
"Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Museums"
Executive Director of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, Chile
(Online)
Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Australia
"Oceans, Islands and Archives: What the Pacific Can Teach Us About the Power and Potential of Inclusive Museums"
Managing Director, Woodfordia Inc., Australia
"Woodfordia: Creating the Conditions for Living Cultures"
Conference Rapporteur
Founding Director Emeritus, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A
Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States
"AI and Intangible Heritage"
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).
Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia
Director, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia
Deputy Director, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia
Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, Australia
Senior Interdisciplinary Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
Director, Museum and Heritage Studies Program, The University of Sydney, Australia
Lecturer, Museum and Heritage Studies Program, The University of Sydney, Australia
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 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Parsons, The New School, United States
(In-Person)
Goethe University Frankfurt and Sorbonne Nouvelle, Germany/France
(In-Person)
Leiden University, The Netherlands
(In-Person)
Deakin University, Australia
(In-Person)
University of Zagreb / Bjelovar City Museum, Croatia
(In-Person)
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
(Online Only)
University of California, Davis, United States
(Online Only)
Monash University, Australia
(In-Person)
Niccolò Cusano University, Italy
(Online Only)
North Dakota State University, United States
(Online Only)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France
(Online Only)
Shandong University of Arts, China
(Online Only)
New York University, United States
(Online Only)
Politecnico di Milano, India
(Online Only)
Universität Hildesheim, Germany
(Online Only)
Independent Researcher, United States
(Online Only)
University of Toronto, Canada
(Online Only)
UFRGS, Brazil
(Online Only)
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia
We recognise and pay respect to the Elders and communities - past, present, and emerging - of the lands that the University of Sydney's campuses stand on. For thousands of years they have shared and exchanged knowledges across innumerable generations for the benefit of all.