Key-speakers
Chris Whitehead, Coodinator of CoHERE Project (Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe) and Professor at Newcastle University (UK)
Daniele Jalla, President of ICOM Italy
Dominique Poulot, Coordinator of the CulturalBase European platform and Professor at the Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, Coordinator of the Faro Convention (Council of Europe) and Administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Hans-Martin Hinz, former ICOM President
Luca Basso Peressut, Coordinator of MELA Project (European Museums in an Age of Migration) and Professor at the Politecnico di Milano
Peter Aronson, Coordinator of EUNAMUS Project (European National Museums) and Professor and Pro-rector of the Linnaeus University (Sweden)
Verena Perko, Curator at the Regional Museum of Kranj and Professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Information / Registration
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Program
Day 1

9h30- Opening session.
-José Alberto Ribeiro, Chair of ICOM Portugal
-Artur Santos Silva, President of Gulbenkian Foundation
-Luís Raposo, President of ICOM Europe
-Suay Aksoy, President of ICOM
-Paula Silva, Directora-Geral do Património Cultural
-Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, Portuguese Minister of Culture
10h00- Hans-Martin Hinz: “New National Museums in a globalized world – Still Memory of Nations?”
10h45- (coffee-break)
11h15- Peter Aronson: “National Museums in a Changing Europe”
12h00- Discussion
12h30- (lunch)
14h30- Luca Basso Peressut: “Crossing Borders: Designing European Identities through Museums"
15h15- Verena Vidrih Perko: "National Museums, political regimes and social changes in Eastern Europe: from late XIX century up today"
16h00- Discussion
16h30- (coffee-break)
17h00- National case-studies
18h00- Discussion

Day 2
9h30- Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins: “National Museums and the Common Heritage of Europe”
10h15- Chris Whitehead: “National museums and the negotiation of difficult pasts”
11h00- (coffee-break)
11h30- Dominique Poulot: “National Museums: an historic critical perspective”
12h15- Discussion
12h45- (lunch)
14h45- Danielle Jalla: “National Museums’ management models: the Italian example as a pretext for critical evaluation of current European trends”
15h30- Discussion
15h45- (coffee-break)
16h15- Panel with invited coordinators of European Projects. Coordinated by Luís Raposo, President of ICOM Europe
17h15- Debate
18h15- Closing session
-José Alberto Ribeiro, Chair of ICOM Portugal
-Luís Raposo, President of ICOM Europe
-Suay Aksoy, President of ICOM