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- 1. Where do wego from here? This is the real dope Maria Vlachou Museums, Borders and European Responsibilities 100 Years After WWI Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, 25.11.18
- 3. “Its single purposeis to bring to you in the simplest, quickest, and most accurate form the things which every man who has served in The Great War must know to put him in touch again with God's Country.”
- 5. We are irrelevantand outdated bystanders!
- 6. We are irrelevantand outdated bystanders! “A grand canyon has opened up in our world. On one side is the new right, promoting a bizarre mixture of Christianity and libertarianism; on the other, the ‘illiberal liberals’, obsessed with identity politics and complaining about things like cultural appropriation. These tiny factions war above, while the rest of us watch, aghast, from the chasm below.” Stephen Fry
- 8. “History can alsoshow up, unannounced, in the life of nations and be slow to leave. Such was the fate of Europe's nations during the Great War starting in 1914. A war which took the sunny, optimistic and peaceful continent of the time by surprise. In 1913, Europeans expected to live a lasting peace. And yet, just a year later, a brutal war broke out amongst brothers, engulfing the continent.” Jean-Claude Juncker
- 10. • Museums • Borders •European responsibilities
- 11. What about thisheritage? The LGBTQI+ presence in the European Year of Cultural Heritage
- 13. A magazine putout by the League for Human Rights in 1930. Writer Joseph Randall Ackerley began writing pro-gay play The Prisoners of War while interned at a prisoner of war camp in Switzerland in 1917.
- 14. “Go to agood psychiatrist of the old school. Maybe he can help you with your instability.”
- 15. “I would beunable to love my child if he/she was homosexual.”
- 16. The Identitary Shieldwarns about the danger of gender ideology in schools in Portugal.
- 17. A Portuguese PoliceUnion defends itself against criticism for publishing photos of captured criminals. They published photos of victims from another country and told the President of the Republic, the Minister of Justice and all of us that not everyone deserves the same respect.
- 18. A judge allowsa 15-year-old Roma girl to abandon school in the name of tradition.
- 19. A Law Professorclaims that homosexuals should not work with boys and that it is OK not to hire a recently-married woman as a model, because she might become pregnant.
- 21. Moria refugee camp,Greece
- 22. “Reason is onceagain on trial and many don’t trust any longer its power to free us or to lead us to the path of truth.” Achille Mbembe
- 23. “Many turn theirback on reason in favor of other faculties: affection, feelings, emotions. Passion is tramping on reason. Acting with one’s gutts is becoming the norm.” Achille Mbembe
- 24. Museum responsibilites • Rethinkwhat we do, how and why • Be aware of the world around us, burst the bubble • Help people make connections • Be empathetic, use clear language • Be places of encounter • Become more diverse • Take responsibility for our actions
- 26. Museum responsibilites • Rethinkwhat we do, how and why • Be aware of the world around us, burst the bubble • Help people make connections • Be empathetic, use clear language • Be places of encounter • Become more diverse • Take responsibility for our actions
- 28. ICOFOM Annual Symposium,Tehran, Oct 2018
- 29. Museum responsibilites • Rethinkwhat we do, how and why • Be aware of the world around us, burst the bubble • Help people make connections • Be empathetic, use clear language • Be places of encounter • Become more diverse • Take responsibility for our actions • Less arrogance, less certainties, more doubts
- 30. “Europe has achoice: to contribute to a new imagination of how we share the earth or to face the political and moral consequences.” Achille Mbembe
- 31. Thank you Maria Vlachou mariavlachou.pt@gmail.com Blog:Musing on Culture