TEMUSE 14-45
Valoriser la mémoire des témoins et des collectionneurs d’objets
des deux Guerres mondiales : médiation, communication et interprétation muséales en Nord-Pas de Calais et Flandre occidentale
Valoriseren van de herinneringen van getuigen en van verzamelaars van voorwerpen uit de twee wereldoorlogen: museale bemiddeling, communicatie en interpretatie in Nord-Pas de Calais en West-Vlaanderen
Optimising the memories of witnesses and collectors of
objects
from the two World Wars: Mediation, communication and interpretation in
museums in the Nord-Pas de Calais and Western Flanders
International Symposium
GERiiCO
13th
and 14th September 2012
Maison de la Recherche, University of Lille3, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Directed by Michèle Gellereau
Project TEMUSE
14-45: “Promoting
the remembrances of witnesses and collectors of objects of the two World
Wars: museum mediation, communication and interpretation in Nord-Pas de
Calais and West Flanders” is led by researchers from the GERiiCO
laboratory (Group for Interdisciplinary Research and Study on Information and
Communication) at the University of Lille3 and the De ViSu
laboratory (University of Valenciennes - UVHC).
The research contract has been established within the framework of the
INTERREG cross-border project “TransMusSites 14-45.
Developing a cross-border network of museums and sites from the two World Wars”
(TMS 14-45), in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais départements
and the Province of West Flanders. The Département du
Nord is lead partner for the project.
The
objective of the symposium on September 13-14 2012 is to present an overview of analyses made and
work carried out within the framework of the TEMUSE 14-45 project and offer
collectors, researchers, academics and institutional stakeholders an
opportunity to discuss findings and questions raised. Elected representatives,
museum staff, TMS 14-45 project partners, as well as teachers, researchers,
students and institutional stakeholders with an interest in these issues are
also invited to take part in this scientific event.
Thursday
13th September 2012
Morning
9.00 a.m.:
Welcome.
9.15
a.m.-10.00 a.m.: Opening of the Symposium by the TEMUSE project team and
TMS14-45 partners: Nord Département - lead
partner, Conseil général of
Pas-de-Calais, West Flanders, University of Lille3 and GERiiCO
laboratory, University of Valenciennes and DE VISU
laboratory.
10.00
a.m.-12.00 p.m.: Summary
of research by the “TEMUSE/GERiiCO/DE VISU” project
team.
– Michèle Gellereau
(TEMUSE Project
Director): Understanding, interpreting and optimising the memory of
witnesses and collectors of objects from the two World Wars: Summary of the key
results from the Temuse 14-45 study
– Yannick Lebathi, Tiphaine Zetlaoui, Samuel Gantier: Why film interviews? Presentation of a reflective approach to information-communication
sciences.
– Émilie Da Lage: Producing knowledge with
collectors.
Discussion
(A
simultaneous Dutch translation of this morning’s interventions will be
provided)
Afternoon
1.30
p.m.-3.30 p.m.: Round table 1, led by Sylvie April (IRHiS Laboratory
-Lille3): The position of objects in the work of collectors: how should
we interpret war “witness objects ? How should
they be included in mediation?
– Nicholas J. Saunders (Dept Archeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol): Biographies
of Objects: Investigating First World War Trench Art 1998-2012.
– Philip Vanhaelemeersch (University College West Flanders)
and Philippe Oosterlinck (Collector): How
should we interpret collections of objects from Chinese workers mobilized on
the front? Findings from joint research…
– Paola Filippucci
(Studies in
Archaeology and Anthropology, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge): Mute
witnesses: an archaeological and ethnological approach to objects from the
Great War.
– Julien Mary (CRID and University of Montpellier): The
French Ministry of Defence and Resistance and Deportation museums: finding the
objects to suit the message A museo-historical
essay.
Discussion
3.45
p.m.-5.15 p.m.: Round table 2, led by Colette Dréan (Regional Department for Cultural
Affairs (DRAC), Nord–Pas–de Calais): Experience of collaboration with
collectors and the non-profit sector: questions of knowledge, message and
complementarities
– Dominiek Dendooven
(In Flanders Fields
Museum, Ypres): Experience of collaboration with collectors.
– Serge Chaumier (University of Artois): “Participatory”
challenges in “social museums”.
– Gilles Michelot (Fort Leveau in Feignies): Musée du Fort Leveau: experience of collaborations with collectors.
Discussion
5.15
p.m.-5.30 p.m.: Conclusion of day one.
Friday
14th September 2012
Morning
9.00
a.m.-11.00 a.m.: Part 2 of the summary of research by the “TEMUSE/GERiiCO/DE VISU” project team.
– Agnieszka Smolczewska
Tona: Preservation and transmission of “memories” and their unique features
within the framework of the TEMUSE project.
– Pascal Bouchez
and Alain Lamboux-Durand: Audiovisual
recollection protocols applied to collectors’ experience: examples from three
TEMUSE 14 -45 project sites.
– Geoffroy Gawin: Donations and mediations by
witnesses-donors: investigation in museums devoted to the Resistance.
Discussion
11.15
a.m.-12.00 p.m.: Round
table 3, led by Hélène Priego (Musée de la
Résistance de Bondues): Discussion with
collectors and museum staff taking part in the project
Participants invited: Musée du Fort de Seclin, Musée de la Cité d’Ercan in Erquinghem-Lys, Fort Leveau in Feignies, In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Musée Alexandre Villedieu in Loos-en-Gohelle, Musée de Fromelles, Musée de D. Browarski in Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Musée d’histoire et d’archéologie d’Harnes, Musée de la Résistance de Bondues.
Afternoon
1.30
p.m.-3.00 p.m.: Round table 4, led by Daniel Jacobi (University of Avignon): How can
collectors’ memories be translated in a museum
setting? How can we convey the skills and knowledge of witnesses? Can audiovisuals be used to enhance the presentation?
– Joelle Le Marec (University of Paris-Diderot): An
experience in transmission: meeting former members of the resistance as witnesses
at the Resistance and Deportation History Centre in Lyon.
– Dominique Trouche (University of Toulouse): Current
use of images and recordings of witnesses in war museums.
– Yves le Maner (Scientific Expert, responsible for
issues relating to History and Memory - Nord Pas de Calais Region): Museographic projects relating to the Great War
in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region
– Jean Marie Doual and Jean Marie Bailleul (Musée de Fromelles): Summary of developments at the Musée de Fromelles.
Discussion
3.15
p.m.-5.00 p.m.: Round
table 5, led by Émilie Da Lage
(University of Lille3 and CLERSE Lille1): The role of non-profit
organisations, collectors, witnesses and museums in commemorative and remembrance
tourism, itineraries, developing territories.
– Anne Hertzog (MRTE Laboratory, Cergy-Pontoise
University): Opening up battlefields to tourists and new forms of
cooperation between different stakeholders.
– Célia Fleury (Responsible for developing themed
museums, Département du Nord): Relevance and usage
of a cross-border network of World War museums.
– Freddy Dolphin (Director of the Departmental Tourism Committee
for the Nord): Commemorative tourism and tourist areas, from the
cross-border to the local perspective.
5.00
p.m.-6.00 p.m.: Closing intervention by Daniel Jacobi (University of
Avignon, Culture and communication team, UMR CNRS No. 8562): The museology
of sensitive issues, between memory and emotion.