2014 CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Pacific Connections: Culture, Connections, Museums and Research
22 and 23 September 2014
Auckland War Memorial Museum
REGISTRATION
Registration Closes 7 September
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$280.00
I am a speaker
Please book me for the conference dinner Monday 22nd September - $80.00 (excludes wine)
I would like to go on the post-conference tour to Fresh Gallery and other cultural sites Wednesday 24th
September - $35.00 (excludes lunch)
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I would like to attend the Auckland Museum Awards evening 23rd (for catering – no cost)
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Please send this form to Kate Adolph kate.adolph@tepapa.govt.nz
Programme:
ICOM New Zealand Conference Schedule 22-23 September 2014
Pacific Connections: Culture, Connections, Museums and Research
Conference sessions at Auckland War Memorial Museum
Monday 22 September
REGISTRATION DESK OPEN 9.30am – 10.30pm
10.30 - 11.15 Pōwhiri
11.15 - 11.45 Kaputi
11.45 - 12.00 Welcomes: Chair ICOM NZ; Auckland War Memorial Museum; President
ICOM; Ministry of Culture and Heritage
12.00 - 13.00 Keynote speaker Hans-Martin Hinz "World War I and the End of the German
Colonial Empire - Do we need to remember it a 100 years later?", respondent
Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 SESSION A: Museum research and Pacific collections – Chair Jane Legget
Louise Furey Early Māori ornaments in museum collections
John Coster and Phil Moore Pacific obsidian and museum collections
Moira White This chap is the greatest collector I have ever met: The Reverend Arthur
Henry Voyce
Mike Dickison How do we narrate the Pacific Extinction?
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon tea
16.00 - 17.30 SESSION B: Connecting museums and research across time and space in the
South Pacific – Chair Tarisi Vunidilo
Richard Wolfe From South Sea rooms to museums of modern art
Linda Tyler The Fale Pasifika at the University of Auckland
Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai Nimamea’a koka’anga: The fine art of Tongan ngatu or
barkcloth making
18.00-19.00 Drinks at Auckland Art Gallery
19.00 – 22.00 Conference Dinner at the Wine Chambers http://www.winechambers.co.nz/
with guest speaker artist Niki Hastings-McFall
Tuesday 23 September
09.00 - 10.30 Tour of Māori and Pacific galleries at Auckland Museum
10.30 - 11.00 Morning tea
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote speaker Damon Salesa, respondent Sean Mallon
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 AGM, election of new board members
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION C: Engaging Pacific communities with museum collections –
Chair Conal McCarthy
Libby Sharpe and Michelle Horwood Engaging Pasifika communities at Whanganui
Regional Museum
Chloe Searle The New Zealand Pacific Museums Network
Ole Maiava The road to Reo recovery – a pilot project about language retention
Marine Valle Museum representation of the contemporary French Polynesia
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon tea
16.00-17.30 SESSSION D: Maintaining diverse connections – Chair Courtney Johnston
Stuart Birnie – The cultural significance of Voyaging for Pacific / Māori Communities
and their re-engagement with the lessons of the past
Evelyn Whitelaw – Access and Agency in the Archive: Creating Space for MeaningMaking to Happen
Jacqueline Charles-Rault – Where two worlds meet
Rhana Devenport and Lisa Reihana Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus
17.30 – Formal Conference closes
18.00 – 19.00 Participants are also invited to join staff and guests at the Auckland
Museum Awards, a celebration of museum research, with an opportunity to view the
exhibition Entangled Islands - Sāmoa, New Zealand and the First World War. Dr Conal
McCarthy, Associate Professor Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of
Wellington (and conference participant) will be Guest Speaker.
Wednesday 24 September
09.30 – 16.00 Conference Excursion (optional)
10.00-12.00 Fresh Gallery, Otara
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/newseventsculture/Arts/artscentretheatresgallerie
s/Pages/freshgalleryotara.aspx
12.00-14.00 Lunch at a restaurant to be confirmed at delegate’s own expense
14.00-16.00 Voyager Maritime Museum, including a waka experience on Auckland
Harbour (contingent on weather and numbers) http://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/
Questions regarding the conference can be directed to Kate Adolph
kate.adolph@tepapa.govt.nz