Fourteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

  • 2021 Special Focus: What Museums Post Pandemic?
  • 8-10 September 2021
  • Museum of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Virtual)

Plenary Speakers

The Fourteenth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Mariët Westermann

Mariët Westermann

Vice Chancellor, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Kaywin Feldman

Kaywin Feldman

Director, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, USA

Sophia Labadi

Sophia Labadi

Professor of Heritage at the University of Kent, U.K.

Research Network Chair

Amareswar Galla

Amareswar Galla

UNESCO Chair on Inclusive Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development, Professor of Inclusive Cultural Leadership and Director, International Centre for Inclusive Cultural Leadership (ICICL), and Dean of Faculty Development and Leadership, Anant National University, Ahmedabad, India; Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/India/USA; UNITWIN-UNESCO Network – Tourism, Culture and Development, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Former Vice President, ICOM, Paris, and former President, ICOM of the Asia Pacific, Paris. (http://inclusivemuseums.org/index.php/executive-director)

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2021 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Xi Wang

Xi Wang

Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

Daria Gradusova

Daria Gradusova

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Marrianne Ubalde

Marrianne Ubalde

Hokkaido University, Japan

Elina Vikmane

Elina Vikmane

Latvia

​Angeliki Tsiotinou

​Angeliki Tsiotinou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Rui Sun

Rui Sun

Queen's University Belfast, Ireland

Conference Partner