The Federation of International Human Rights Museums- Asia Pacific, or FIHRM-AP, was established at the ICOM Kyoto Conference in September 2019. Serving as a platform for strategic collaboration and resource connection, FIHRM-AP can facilitate practices of contemporary human rights by building human rights driven museum values. In 2023, FIHRM-AP will hold its inaugural annual conference under the theme "Synergizing for Human Rights" while appealing to the language and cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region. The conference calls for papers from around the world on research, cases, and practices related to human rights issues in museums in the Asia-Pacific region. Discussions on the following sub-topics are encouraged, in the hope of sparkling new perspectives and methods through exchange and sharing to send powerful ripples across the regions.

Here are some of the topics which will be addressed:

• Leveraging Museums for Human Rights Practice
• Engage with Communities to Advocate Human Rights
• Migration and Human Rights Challenges across Borders
• Narratives of Negative Heritage Sites Transformed into Museums and Memorial Institutions
• Interdisciplinary Human Rights Collaboration: Synergy and Reverberation

The development context of human rights practices in the Asia-Pacific region varies significantly, with a high degree of historical complexity and backgrounds marked by colonization, suppression, and authoritarianism. Some countries place great emphasis on human rights issues within their national museums, while in others, grassroots initiatives and small-scale local cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations take the lead. How can we leverage museums as means to channel more attention to human rights issues? This year's conference will focus on various practices of museums and cultural institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, including collection, research, exhibition, and education, as well as how to foster community involvement, address issues of racial discrimination and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region, transform the negative heritage of authoritarian eras into museums and memorial institutions, and explore cross-border collaborations. The aim is to introduce more innovative approaches and thinking to museums.

The conference is planned to feature three keynote speeches and the presentation of sixteen papers. The presenters come from various countries, including Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Nepal, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Argentina, and more, promising a wealth of insights. On the morning of the third day, the conference will host a workshop with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) on the theme "Synergizing for Human Rights: Collaboration between Museums and Communities in the Asia-Pacific Region." This workshop will discuss public participation in museums and stimulate idea exchange and sharing of experiences.

1. Organizer
　Organizer: National Human Rights Museum
　Executive Organizer: Museum Studies of Fu-Jen Catholic University, Greenhill Events

2. Date
    Keynote Speechs and Paper Presentation on 6th-7th Nov.
    Workshop on 8th Nov. (30 people maximum)
    *No registration open for the tours from the afternoon 8th Nov. to 10th Nov.  The tour are limited to FIHRM-AP members.  

3. Venue
    Conference on 6th-7th Nov.｜Conference Hall of Tsai Lecture Halls, National Taiwan University (Google Map)
　Workshop on 8th Nov.｜National Human Rights Museum (Google Map)

4. Event Link 
    Register for the Conference
    Download Conference Agenda 

* Participation in the conference is free of charge. Please present your notification email or badge of the conference at the ticket gate to verify your admission.
* Simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin and English provided. Please present a valid ID (ID card, health insurance card, student card or passport) to register for using the interpreting system at the registration counter of the conference.

Contact | 02-2218-2438 #605 | nhrm.fihrmap@gmail.com
2023FIHRM-AP Conference | fihrmap2023@gmail.com