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Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Working Group Zoom Meeting - 19 June 2025

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ICOM-CC Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Working Group Zoom Meeting 

Date: 19 June 2025
Time: 8:00 pm-9:00 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time/ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm Central European Time 

Engaging with diaspora, displaced and migrant populations for conservation of objects

The Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Working Group coordination team is pleased to announce our next Working Group Zoom meeting on 19 June 2025 . The theme of this webinar will be how conservators work with diaspora communities for the care of their objects, the conservation challenges of caring for fragile or sensitive heritage, not always held in institutions, and how diaspora communities see their responsibility for the future of their cultural objects. 

We are very happy to have two very different presentations:

-Iris Terradura, from Geneva Ethnography Museum, Switzerland, will speak about her experience of engaging with a Himalayan monastery in Switzerland about the care of human remains in the Asia collection of the museum.

-Stephen Bollard, emerging conservator, recently graduated from the Masters in Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne, Australia, will speak about his engagement with members of the Vietnamese/Chinese diaspora in Melbourne to find ways of caring for the family memorabilia in domestic settings.

The talks will be followed by an open discussion with the audience, welcoming your questions and personal experiences with members of diaspora in various times and places. With this session, we are hoping to create an open dialogue, exchange experiences and approaches and broaden the reflection on this topic which is regularly encountered.

We are looking forward to interesting presentations and an exciting discussion, exploring the various approaches of working with diaspora communities.