The Fourteenth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Vice Chancellor, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Director, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, USA
Professor of Heritage at the University of Kent, U.K.
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)
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:
Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Hokkaido University, Japan
Latvia
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Gujarat, India