Preliminary Programme of The Conference

MAY 6th
05:00 PM Registration
05:30 PM NMOQ Guided Tour
06:30 PM Welcome Dinner
MAY 7th
08:30 AM Registration and welcome coffee
09:00 AM Opening of the conference - welcome speeches
  • Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums
  • Dr. Goranka Horjan, INTERCOM Chairperson, Director National Castle Trakošćan
  • Dr. Ech-Cherki Dahmali, ICOM ARAB Chairperson, Director Morocco Telecom Museum
SESSION I: Presenter of the session and moderator: M. Cristina Vannini - INTERCOM Secretary
09:30 AM KENOTE I Prof. Dr. Vlatka Ariaana Hlupič - Professor of Leadership and Management at Hult International Business School Profiling the leader. Key skills and future mindsets of the museum leader
10:00 AM Q&A
10:30 AM Edward Ayres De Abreu - Museu Nacional da Música / INET- md, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Lisbon, Portugal Six months of profound transformation: building a team, building a museum
10:45 AM Ioannis Markakis - Cretan Open-Air Museum Lychnostatis – Greece Six months of profound transformation: building a team, building a museum
11:00 AM Abduraheem K - Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Future of museums and future museums.
11:15 AM Han Jiang - PhD candidate School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK Leadership in co-designing the digital transformation of museums.
11:30 AM Shin-Chieh Tzeng - Conservation of Cultural Relics and Museology, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan Democratizing museums: moving towards an interactive museum governance model.
11:45 AM John Wetenhall -The George Washington University Museum, USA Charging for charity.
12:00 PM Noel Biseko Lwoga - National Museum of Tanzania Crafting a museum strategy: from nobility to nationality, popularity and sustainability.
12:15 PM Anne-Marie Gilis – Cultural Studies, KU Leuven Qatar's rising museum scene. What museum leaders say. From current challenges to new museum leadership insights.
12:30 PM Q&A
01:00 PM Lunch
SESSION II: Presenter of the session and moderator: Marek Prokůpek - INTERCOM Board member
02:00 PM KEYNOTE II Prof. Dr. PierLuigi Sacco - Professor of Economics at University of Chieti-Pescara, Senior Adviser to the OECD, Paris, Research Affiliate at the metaLAB (at) Harvard Museums as platforms of behavioral change for societal challenges.
02:30 PM Q&A
03:00 PM Maria Rosario Estrada - Lasalle College of Arts Singapore The Cultural Center of the Philippines’ thirteen artists program: a study on museum criticism, collaboration, and validation.
03:15 PM Lara Corona - University Internaçional de Catalunya - Spain Accessibility, engagement, digitization, and sustainability: the Boijmans Museum as a model of leadership.
03:30 PM Antonia Bobik - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands Curating towards diversity and inclusion: a snapshot and critical view of the museum landscape of Rotterdam.
03:45 PM Marta Šveb Dragija and Daniela Angelina Jelinčić - Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Croatia Museum wellbeing leadership toolkit: leadership mindset and skills for wellbeing in museums
04:00 PM Isabel Collazos Gottret - PhD student University of Leicester A leader’s compass navigating management change: employee wellbeing.
04:15 PM Fatma Mostafa - Children Center for Civilization and Creativity – Egypt The role of museums in safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of refugees.
04:30 PM Amal Hamdy - University of Helwan, Egypt The Role of Events in Museum Soft Opening Evaluation: Perspectives for the Museum Leadership Future
04:45 PM Alenka Černelič Krošelj - Posavje Museum Brežice, Slovenia Leading museums and museum life in times of constant change.
05:00 PM Q&A
05:20 PM Guided Tour to the NMQ – registration needed
MAY 8th
SESSION III: Presenter of the session and moderator: Anne-Marie Gilis, INTERCOM Board member
09:00 AM KEYNOTE III Prof. Dr. Desmond Hui - Professor and Head of Department of Art and Design at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Visions for the future: a cross-cultural exchange.
09:30 PM Q&A
10:00 AM Stefano Karadjov - Fondazione Brescia Musei, Brescia, Italy New museum membership frontiers. The cultural identity model of Fondazione Brescia Musei’s Alliance for Culture.
10:15 AM Cristina Beard - Provincial Museum Network of Lugo, Spain Governance and leadership models in the provincial museum network of Lugo.
10:30 AM William Geblerkpor - Museum of Natural and Cultural Heritage at Shai Hills - University of Ghana The museum as family home: shaping a new mindset for museum leadership in West Africa.
10:45 AM Anna Dentoni - Promotori Musei del Mare, Galata Museum, Genoa, Italy Leadership and Patrons.
11:00 AM Yu Qihe - School of Foreign Languages in Southeast University, China The impact of the visit to the U. S. Museum on the management thinking of the Capital Museum leader Han Yong.
11:30 AM Anqi Li - PhD Candidate at The University of Hong Kong Sustaining Art Museums: a study of corporate governance of M+.
11:45 AM Esther Kabalanyana Banda - Lusaka National Museum, Zambia Challenges and benefits of succession planning: a case of the National Museums of Zambia.
12:00 PM Manuel Rabaté - Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE Louvre Abu Dhabi: a blueprint universal model paving the way for the future of museums in the region.
12:15 PM Q&A
12:30 PM OPENING OF THE POSTERS' SESSION CEREMONY
Dr. Goranka Horjan - INTERCOM Chairperson
Dr. Ech-Cherki Dahmali – ICOM Arab Chairperson
POSTER SESSION*
Jalal Alheji, Freelance The sickles blade in the neolithic period.
Kimmo Levä, Finnish National Gallery Strategic management in a digital operating environment, case Finnish National Gallery.
Jean-Paul Koudougou, National Museum, Burkina Faso From the Ouagadougou Music Museum to the National Museum of Burkina Faso:experiences of assertive leadership
Christian Nana Tchuisseu, ICOM Cameroon African Museums directors face of new challenge, post COVID 19
Gahramanli and Sayavush, Azerbaijan National Museum of Art Museum leadership: current challenges
Ee Bee Gan, NUS Architecture, Singapore Reimagining traditions: museum governance for Chinese voluntary associations in urban Singapore
Rémy Jarry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Catholic University of Paris, CIMAM Does the art market need museums to grow?
Nofa Farida Lestari, Indonesian Hidden Heritage Bringing creative industries to preserve cultural heritage.
Bebewou Aka Adjo, University of Lome, Togo Museum innovation: advantages or disadvantages?
Faeza Meendrakkal Anver Muhammed, Freelance Analysing the mindset and skills of visionary leader
Jurica Sabol, Museums of the Croatian Zagorje Challenges of managing a regional museum(s).
Rabie Ahmed Sayed Ahmed, Fayoum University, Egypt Artificial Intelligence and the future of museums: opportunities and threats; and a projectproposal for an academic program on artificial intelligence and heritage
01:00 PM Lunch
*The poster session will stay open to the end of the conference.
02:00 PM Workshop
1st Ethical leadership for the museum of the future. Sally Yerkovich - Adjunct Professor of Museum Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics of ICOM
2nd Museum leadership in between governance and operations. Bart De Baere - Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp; Chair of the Museum Watch Committee of CIMAM
3rd Leading from within and leading outside the museum. Lizzy Moriarty - Non-Executive Director of Cultural Innovations Ltd.
4th Changing mindsets: defining resilient and agile future for museum management processes. Ech-Cherki Dahmali - Director of Morocco Telecommunication Museum, Rabat; Chair of ICOM Arab
04:00 PM PLENARY AND WORKSHOPS’ WRAP-UP At NMOQ Auditorium
Dr. Goranka Horjan - INTERCOM Chairperson
MAY 9th
ROUND TABLE SESSIONS
Sheikha Maryam Ali Al Thani – Qatar Museums
09:00 AM Museum Leadership across MENA Moderator: Zeina Arida – Director Arab Museum of Modern Art Ebrahim Saleh Al-Khulaifi, Qatar Museums, Role of transformational leadership in improving organizational performance: - study of Qatar Museum; Insaf Bchina Naouar, University of Kairouan, Museums as source of inspiration for innovation; Francesca Bacci, Zayed University, DCT’s management of Abu Dhabi’s museums as a governance and cultural leadership model; Abdulrahman Alrogaiey, ; Future Museum t; Mohammed Hussam Zahim Iraq Museums Management Strategy, Iraq Institute Goethe; Maha Alshebani, University of London, The role of museum leadership in Qatar’s cultural diplomacy strategies
10:00 AM Museums and Society Moderator: Abdulrahman Al Ishaq – Director of Public Art. Marwa Hamada, Fayoum university, Museum management and society awareness: Kom-Ushim museum Vs Caricature museum in Fayoum- Egypt; Najla Al Thani, Qatar Museums, Public art, national identity and Islam in the Gulf: a study of the miraculous journey exhibition and the National Museum of Qatar; Muhammad Y Gamal, Translation in museums: the director’s dilemma, Amira Abdelkader, Department of International Cooperation - National Museum of Egyptian Civilization NMEC Mastering the art of leadership in the museums of the 21st century; Imed Ben Salah, University of Tunis, In order to create a Museum of Olive Tree in Tunisia.
11:00 AM Museum audiences & cultural leadership Moderator: Martha Ikabongo – INTERCOM Board member. Sirine Abdelhedi, Embassy of the State of Qatar, Paris, Characteristics of effective leadership and its impact on implementation of principles of good governance in regional museums; Rania Sawalhi, Dadu, Children Museums of Qatar, Museum school programs in Qatar: opportunities and challenges; Farah Al Taweel, Qatar Museums, Our future museum leaders: a co-created framework with children for children; Jenny Brown, Allegra Burnette, Qatar Museums, Leading digital transformation through product management at Qatar Museums; Moataz Mahmoud Elmekawy, Children's Civilization and Creativity Center, The future of museums education In the digital transformation age.
12:00 PM New museums and new ideas Moderator: M. Cristina Vannini - INTERCOM Secretary Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr, Tara Desjardins, Qatar Museums, Making museums: the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the future of museography; Hedhili Hela, University of Sousse, The future of art museums in the Arab world Marta Oliveira, Al Yaqdhan Al Harthi, Oman Across Ages Museum, Oman Across Ages Museum: a model for museum’s capacity building in the Middle East; Jawaher Alkuwari, Qatar Museums, Innovation and museumleadership, a case study on NMOQ
01:00 PM CLOSING REMARKS
Sheikha Maryam Ali Al Thani – Qatar Museums
Dr. Goranka Horjan – INTERCOM Chairperson
01:30 PM Lunch
02:00 PM Qatar Museums cultural activities.