CULT OR CULTURE?
The change of values in the society and sociocultural mission of museums.
Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 16 – 17, 2015
Goal
Conference / to reflect on the recent events in Ukraine and the effect upon social values. To analyse the impact of these changes on the role of the Ukrainian museums.
Organisers / UkrainianCenter for Museum Development (program ProMuseum), Kharkiv literature museum.
Partners / International Renaissance Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, Polish Institute in Kyiv, French Institute in Ukraine,The Premises of the Consulate of Germany in Kharkiv, InyurpolisLawFirm, Creative space «Spalah», Department of Culture and Tourism of Kharkiv Regional State Administration.
Time / October 16
9.00 – 17.30 / October 17
10.00 – 18.30
Place / Conference center
ILF-Communication / Creative space
«Spalah»
Address / Skrypnyka str. 14 А / Demchenka str. 6
Contacts / Tetyana Pylypchuk
T. (057) 7062579; 0678994350
Programme
October 16
PANELI. Problems of study modern history. Collective memory and its institutionalization, changing values of society. Culture is as a factor public safety.
The Premises of the Consulate of Germany in Kharkiv, Skrypnyka str. 14 А
8.30 – 9.00 / Registration.9.15 – 9.30 / Introduction by the conference organizers.
9.30 – 10.15 / Immages of Kharkiv: Past and Present
Oleksij Musiezdov, Ukraine,Dr., V.N.KarazinKharkivNationalUniversity, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
10.30 – 11.15 / Aspects of exhibiting the history of the Communist Past in Germany.
Axel Klausmeier, Professor Dr., Director Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany.
11.25 – 11.45 / Coffee break.
11.45 – 12.30 / The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory: problems, challenges. Oleksandr Zinchenko, advisor to the Director of the Institute of National Memory, Kyiv, Ukraine.
12.40 – 13.40 / Lunch break.
13.45 – 14.45 / Memory dynamics, ethnicity and museums in post-Soviet Estonia
Uku Lember, Dr., TallinnUniversity, Tallinn, Estonia.
14.55 – 15.35 / Soviet and anti-Soviet myths by the history of the Kharkiv “Cheka” (Soviet security organization).
Eduard Zub, historian, Kharkov, Ukraine.
15.45 – 16.45 / Discussion.
16.50 / City tour "Kharkiv new downtown as the first Soviet capital", visit to KharkivLiteraryMuseum, Phrunze str. 6.
October 17
9.00 – 9.45 – visit to KharkivHistoricalMuseum.
PANEL II. Is museum a mirror of social memory? Talking about the current history without pathos and stamps. Museums and social problems: society dialogue or "turnkey solutions"?
Creative space «Spalah», Demchenka str. 6.
10.00 – 10.40 / Problems of fixation current history in museums exhibitions.Zenoviy Mazuryk, cultural expert, Vice-president of the Ukrainian National Centre ICOM, Lviv, Ukraine.
10.50 – 11.30 / Dealing with uncomfortable heritage? The Berlin Wall Memorial. Axel Klausmeier, Professor Dr., Director Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany.
11.40 – 12.00 / Coffee break.
12.00 – 12.40 / How to present history in museum exhibition: the French experience.
Sylvie Grange, Director of the State Centre of cooperation and information of museums (OCIM), Paris, France.
12.50 – 13.30 / The initiative of creation MajdanMuseum.
Vasyl Rogko, Chief of Department of Museum Affairs and Cultural Values of Ministry of culture of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
13.40 – 14.40 / Lunch break.
14.40 – 15.20 / Exhibiting Memory. Former concentration camps as modern museums of recent history.
Jörg Skriebeleit, Dr., Direktor of KZ–Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg, Germany.
15.30 – 16.10 / Tolerance in museums. How to perform painful pages of the history in museums exhibition?
Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska, Specialist Education Department, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.
16.20 – 17.00 / The Museum in public activity, response to rapid changes and challenges.
Oksana Barshinova, Chief Department Art of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv.
17.10 – 17.30 / Coffee break.
17.30 – 18.30 / Discussion.
18.30 / City tour "New monuments and new meanings of the historical centre of Kharkov."