On 21st November 2011, UNO staff members (C. Ianniciello) attended the VII National Conference of Italian museums – an event at the Fondazione Stelline of Milan. The main Italian museum associations took part in the conference, which was constituted of two different sessions.

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On Friday November 11, 2011 CIID participated in the seminar Sharing is Caring: Digitalized Cultural Heritage for All, hosted by the Association of Danish Museums (ODM), Danish Radio (DR), and National Gallery of Denmark (SMK).

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From the 17th to 21th of July 2011 Luca Basso Peressut, the MeLa Project Coordinator attended the Conference “Re-Visiting the Contact Zone: Museums, Theory, Practice” at Linköping, Sweden giving a speech on MeLa topics titled “Museums in/of the age of migrations. Trends and forms of a new museographical vision”.

It has been a very inspiring meeting  full of interesting presentations and meaningful discussions. More details about the confernce, including both the programme and the abstract of key-note speakers’ presentations, can be found at http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2011/confdetail365.html?conf=365&year=2011.

Soon Luca Basso Peressut will post here a more detailed report of the events and within september on Mela website some excerpts of his paper will be uploaded in the publication section.

On April 11-12-2011 UNO participated (with a paper titled The Museum of European Normality. Contemporary Art and the visual construction of European Identity by dr Giulia Grechi) in the 2nd Conference of Visual Culture in Europe held at University of Barcelona, Spain on April 11-12, 2011. The conference focused on the interplay between the enlargement of the geopolitical design of the European Union and transnational visual studies in the region. By juxtaposing issues such as intercultural negotiation, migratory aesthetics, diverse understandings of neighbourliness, and symbolic struggle, this conference attempted to elaborate on the decolonial dilemmas that the reinvention and promotion of Europe as a coherent and diverse cultural reality is facing today, both spatially and symbolically.

The conference had a problematic issue in the conflict between the concept of Europe and the concept of European Union. This hard relation was not very clear in many talks, as if these two [...]

On May 4th, 2011, CIID met with a delegation from the Danish Ministry of Culture. The aim of the meeting was to introduce the MeLa project, its research questions and goals, and to explore possible ways of collaboration between MeLa and institutions under the Danish Ministry of Culture.

The delegation included the following people:

• Jakob Heide Petersen, Head of Secretariat, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media • Erik Thorlund Jepsen, Head of Library Development, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media • René Olesen, Head of Digital Infrastructure, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media • Gitte Smed, Project Manager for i.e. “Palles Gavebod,” Danish Agency for Libraries and Media • Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Head of IT, The Royal Library • Michael Anker, Project Manager, The Digital Library

CIID proposed various ways of collaboration with members of the delegation, i.e. joining MeLa as a partner institution where they could participate in field [...]