【FIHRM-AP Member Online Meeting】 Topic：From the Pandemic to the Post-Pandemic: New Perspectives on Museums and Human Rights Work Date：Jul 26th, 2023
FIHRM-AP Member Online Meeting
❉ Content：
Federation of International Human Rights Museums- Asia Pacific (FIHRM-AP) was established in September 2019 on the ICOM General Conference held in Kyoto. As a platform for museums and NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region, FIHRM-AP urges governments to carefully watch the development of human rights issues in this region. It works to build human-rights-oriented museum values to drive contemporary practices to further the cause.
This November, FIHRM-AP will be hosting its inaugural annual conference in Taiwan. As a warm-up event to the conference, we invite international FIHRM-AP members to share their organizations' perspectives on ""From the Pandemic to the Post-Pandemic: New Perspectives on Museums and Human Rights Work." This online meeting welcomes all interested in FIHRM-AP to participate. Interpretation services will be provided in English and Chinese, and early registration is encouraged.
After successful registration, the conference link will be sent to participants.
❉ Agenda：
14:00 — 14:10 Address by President
Shi-Fang Hong, Director of the National Human Rights Museum and President of FIHRM-AP
14:10 — 14:20 FIHRM-AP Announcement
FIHRM-AP Annual Conference Secretariat
14:20 — 15:00 AP Member’s Talk 1
Speaker | Andi Achdian , Assistant Professor at Sociology Department of Universitas Nasional and Director of the Munir Human Rights Museum
Topic | Memorialization and Past Political Violence
15:00 — 15:40 AP Member’s Talk 2
Speaker | Patporn (Aor) Phoothong , Independent Scholar
Topic | Education for Peace in Violent Conflict: Exploring Possibility of Peace Museum in Southern Frontier Provinces of Thailand
15:40 — 16:00 Discussion Session
Moderator | Wen-Ling Lin, Assistant Professor
at Graduate Institute of Museum Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University
Discussant | Chia-Li Chen, Professor at Graduate Institute
Andi Achdian
About the Speakers:
Andi Achdian is an assistant-professor at Sociology Department, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Nasional. He is also the head of Omah Munir Foundation. The Munir Human Rights Museum was originally established with the name Omah Munir (House of Munir) Human Rights Museum by the Omah Munir Human Rights Foundation in 2013 in the city of Batu, East Java, where Munir was born and raised. The establishment of the Museum is to promote human rights education for Indonesians, especially the youths to nurture peace-loving citizens that respects human rights and upholds the principles of tolerance and equality.
Article: Against Forgetting: Museums and political activism in Indonesia
Patporn (Aor) Phoothong
About the Speakers:
Patporn (Aor) Phoothong is a researcher focusing on peace education via peace museum and archives. Her latest research is a feasibility study for the establishment of a peace museum connected to the deep south of Thailand. She has also co-founded an initiative to establish 6 October 1976 Massacre Museum and the Initiative of Southern Museum and Archives. Her focus has been on using museums and archives as a tool for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Aor started working on museum and archives for peace and justice since 2011 by conducting research on Towards Peace and Reconciliation: Case Studies of Peace Museums in Japan and the Philippines under the Asian Public Intellectual, Nippon Foundation’s Fellowship Program.
Article: Let the Objects Tell Their Stories: Observations from the October 6 Museum Project