Some of the international workshop presenters and organizers who came to Cape Town for the conference included: (front row) Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam; Richard Kurin, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape; Anne Walker, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University; Ivan Karp, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University; (second row) Corinne A. Kratz, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University; Doran Ross, UCLA; (third row) Betsy Quick, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Michel Doortmont, University of Groningnen; (back) Susan Legene, Troppenmuseum, Amsterdam.

All photos on this page are by Anne Walker.

Over 100 scholars, students, and professionals in the heritage sector attended the conference on each of the two days.	Conference attendees listen attentively to a presentation.
Johannes Fabian of the University of Amsterdam presented a paper entitled Memory/Counter-Memory, Collection/Dispersal: Some Ethnography-Driven Reflections.	Crain Soudien of the University of Cape Town chaired the first session ("Commemoration and Collection") on the second day of the conference. Crain is also a member of the Institutions of Public Culture Cape Town Committee.
Betsy Quick of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, made a presentation entitled "Take-Away" Documents: Cultivating Meaning-Making in the Museum.	Each workshop session was followed by time for discussion, comments and questions by the audience.

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