To whom does history belong?

Conference in cooperation with the Archaeology and Coin Cabinet Department of the Universalmuseum Joanneum as part of the InterArch-Steiermark EU project

Registration requried!  

The common history of Southern Austria and Slovenia during the Habsburg Monarchy has resulted in the situation that thousands of archaeological objects and documents from what is now Slovenia can be found in Austrian museums and archives. As part of an EU project, this material will be made available until 2014, and we would like to explore the museological dimension of this topic in a public conference: What do changing political demarcations mean for the way in which museums deal with historical remains? But what happens if these become important for the identity of a particular group or population of a region, but they are found in the institutions of another country? Where might we find constructive discussions on this topic already in progress? What practical solutions have theoretical debates provided? And what use is the term “European cultural heritage” in this context?

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Elisabeth Arlt Head of Pavelhaus (A)
Christoph Bazil  Head of Department for provenience and restitution at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Vienna (A)
Stephan Günzel Professor of New Media Theory, BTK Academy of Design, Berlin (D)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Head of Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (A)
Mateja Kos Curator, Department of History and Applied Art, National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana (SLO)
Branko Lenart  Photographer, Graz (A)
Gregor H. Lersch Head of Project team, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (D)
Markus Moehring Head of Dreiländermuseum Lörrach (D)
Wolfgang Muchitsch Director of Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (A)
Karl Peitler Head of Department of Archaeology and Coin Cabinet, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (A)
Kerstin Poehls PostDoc Researcher, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin (D)
Barbara Porod Chief Curator, Archaeological collections, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (A)
Ljiljana Radonic Research fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (A)
Tomislav Sola Professor of Museology, University of Zagreb (CRO)
Verena Vidrih Perko Curator, Department for Archaeology, Gorenjski Muzej, Kranj (SLO)
Nikolai Vukov Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (BUL)
Regina Wonisch Museologist, Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Wien (A)
Theresa Zifko Scientific employee, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (A) 

Location
Pokrajinski muzej Maribor - Regional Museum Maribor (SLO)

Cost
Participation is free of charge.

Language of the event
English

Registration and Information
Museumsakademie Joanneum
T +43 (0) 316/8017-9805, Fax -9808
museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at