Museums Change Lives?

Emma Winch

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Emma Winch is the Learning Manager for Hackney Museum, a small community history museum in the diverse London Borough of Hackney, with an international reputation for its pioneering community engagement programme. In 2014 she was also part of the management team who opened Black Cultural Archives, the UK’s first Black heritage centre in London where she oversaw the learning and exhibition programme and co- curated their first two exhibitions. Emma organizes the annual UK-wide Antiuniversity Now Festival, sits on the Education Committee for the Migration Museum and works as a Freelance Heritage Consultant, advising organizations on community engagement, writing online and printed learning resources, and mentoring early career museum professionals.

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After studying Bachelor in Classical Archaeology in Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, I attended archaeological excavations such as Smyrna and Pergamon. I studied at the University of Bonn as an Erasmus exchange student. I finished my Master's at the University of Maastricht in Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education. I did my internship in Museum Rotterdam and wrote my masters thesis about the museum's community practice Authentic Rotterdam Heritage.

Migration and museums.the whirlwind of the ambulat

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Mtro. Francisco Javier Guerrero Mendoza is Principal Investigator “C” of the Department of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (DEAS) at the Institute of … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Mtro. Francisco Javier Guerrero Mendoza is Principal Investigator “C” of the Department of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (DEAS) at the Institute of Anthropology and History. He analyses the transculturation between Mexico and the United States and currently works on the project: Origins and development of national culture under conditions of late capitalism. Phase III. He is a member of the Permanent Seminar of Chicano Studies and Frontiers (SPEChF) DEAS-INAH. He has a Masters in anthropological sciences from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and a doctorate from the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a Professor of the UNAM, ENAH and other institutions of higher education and the author of texts such as functions of religion and magic in the social structure of the Maya, The economy in primitive societies, The elections of 88, National question and urban literature, The im [hide]

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Irazú Gómez Vargas has a Master in Management of Projects, by the Iberoamericana University, campus Puebla. Specialty on migration and asylum with a human rights perspective, University of Lanus, Argentina. Her commitment to the defense of refugees and migrants’ rights has led her to comply and collaborate on various networks al local, regional and national level. From 2008 to 2015 was responsible of the Program on Migration Issues at the Institute of Human Rights Igacio Ellacuría S.J. of the Iberoamericana University, Puebla. In 2010 academic stay at The Westchester Hispanic Coalition in New York. Her research work has been developed mainly on women and asylum seekers especially in detention. Currently is Coordinator of Incidence and Vinculation of the ONG Sin Fronteras. [hide]

Open Museums: spaces of social participation

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Inés Giménez Delgado coordinates the area of Communication of INEDIM. Is responsible for the strategic and digital communication of the organization, media … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Inés Giménez Delgado coordinates the area of Communication of INEDIM. Is responsible for the strategic and digital communication of the organization, media relations, audiovisual production and image design. For the past eight years has, been working in drugs policy, gender, human rights and political ecology with organizations such as the London International Drug Policy Consortium and the CDHM Tlachinollan, among others. Has a degree in History, a Master in Journalism and Anthropology and is studying the doctorate in Latin American Studies. [hide]

Open Museums: spaces of social participation

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Fabienne Venet is currently director of the Institute of Studies and Dissemination on Migration A.C. (INEDIM) and is Fellow Ashoka. She was coordinator of the … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Fabienne Venet is currently director of the Institute of Studies and Dissemination on Migration A.C. (INEDIM) and is Fellow Ashoka. She was coordinator of the Migration Studies Program of the Mexican Human Rights Academy (AMDH), consultant for the Regional Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and founder and director of Sin Fronteras IAP. She has also been a guest scholar at the Center for Inter-American Studies and Programs (CEPI) of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and member of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED). She has worked for more than 25 years on issues of migration, asylum and human rights from civil society, seeking to promote dialogue and the development of more just and adequate public policies. [hide]

The Museum at the Centre of Arrival

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Doug Saunders is the international-affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper and is the author of three books on migration and cities: Arrival … [read more]

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