Museums and Partnerships in Times of War in Ukraine

 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to the online event "Museums and 
Partnerships in Times of War in Ukraine". At the same time, we ask you 
to publish our event announcement (see below or pdf) via your 
distribution list, i.e. make it accessible via your homepage or 
newsletter or your mailing list.

With best thanks for your help and best regards

Guido Fackler.


Museums and Partnerships in Times of War in Ukraine

June 9, 2022, 17:30–19:30 CEST, ZOOM

The brutal and aggressive war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine on 
February 24, 2022 is driving more and more people to flee every day 
and causing massive destruction. How can Ukrainian colleagues continue 
their work against the backdrop of permanent threats to their lives, 
historic buildings and collections? What role does cultural and 
natural heritage play in this war? And what forms of cooperation and 
resource sharing can museums abroad offer to provide support in 
solidarity and counter the rise of fascism?
In this session of the Making Museums Matter event series, colleagues 
from Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Switzerland, among others, will 
report on their needs, forms of resistance, strategies of networking 
and possibilities of preservation. We want to talk about traps and 
gaps in the current wave of solidarity with Ukraine, contribute to the 
visibility of the work of Ukrainian colleagues, and promote global and 
local networking of museums and their partners in times of war.

Speakers:
Rosa-Lena Bösl, ICOM Germany, Network Cultural Property Protection Ukraine
Vasyl Dunets, Junior Academy of Sciences and Centre of Interactive 
Museum Science, Kyїv
Robert Firmhofer, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw
Yulia Fisch, House of Electronic Arts, Basel and Centre Pompidou, Paris
Oksana Karpovets, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Eugeny Kotlyar, Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust in Drobitsky 
Yar, Kharkiv
Tanja Sokolnykova, kolo, shelter and support program at Tepla Gora eco centre

Moderators:
Alina Gromova, ICOM COMCOL, Foundation New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum
Anna Leshchenko, University of Tübingen
Sandra Vacca, ICOM COMCOL

The event will be held in English. If necessary, individual 
contributions to the discussion may also be made in German, Ukrainian 
or Russian. We will make every effort to provide translation.

Please register here:
https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Uvf-yrrTMjGteMupDs0dQ2YkvdrC8QnASD

Further information on the event series Making Museums Matter:
https://comcol.mini.icom.museum/comcol-germany/series-of-online-discussions-making-museums-matter/