Museums, Local Knowledge and Performance in an Age of Globalisation

3-4 August 2001
Cape Town, South Africa

Friday 3 August
South African Museum

SESSION ONE: LEGACIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY

Tony Bennett, Open University
"The Connective Tissue of Civilisation: Race, Time, Memory and the Evolutionary Museum"
Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape
"Ethnographic Elaborations and Indigenous Contestations"
Discussant: Carolyn Hamilton, University of the Witwatersrand

SESSION TWO: TRAUMA, MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE

Patricia Valdez, Director of Memoria Abierta
"Twenty five years later: Collective Elaboration of Remembering through Public Representations"
Shirley Gunn, Khulumani Project, Western Cape
"The Burden of Remembering, the Art of Retelling"
Discussant: Deirdre Prins, Robben Island Museum

Saturday 4 August
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

SESSION THREE: LOCAL KNOWLEDGES, LIVING HERITAGE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

Yonah Seleti, Killie Campbell Collection, University of Natal
"Expropriation, Exploitation, and Exhibitionism: The Quest for the Bhangazi Heritage Site in the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park"
Ana Maria de Oliveira, Mandume Project, Angola
"Museum: A Place that Comes Alive"
Discussant: Corinne Kratz, Emory University

SESSION FOUR: CONSUMERISM AND HERITAGE

Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett, New York University
"Space of Memory/Site of Redress: Museums and the Performance of Citizenship"
Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape
"Museums on the Township Tour"
Discussant: Ivan Karp, Emory University

SUMMING UP: David Bunn, University of the Witwatersrand