Working experience
2008-Present Cultural Consultant, Chiang Mai, Thailand
\- Historic Structure Report in cooperation with Chiang Mai University Faculty of
Architecture, Prince Mahidol Museum Project, Chiang Mai, Thailand
\- Structural services to Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park, Mae Fah Luang
Foundation, Under Royal Patronage, Chiang Rai, Thailand
\- Structural services to Wat Phra Kaew Museum, Chiang Rai, Thailand
2002-2008 Curator, Rai Mae Fah Luang, Mae Fah Luang Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand
1998-2000 Assistant director, Rai Mae Fah Luang, Mae Fah Luang Foundation Chiang Rai, Thailand
Education
1976 Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, California
2001- Master Museology, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background summary
Growing up in Laos I developed an interest in anthropology and material culture. After working with
handicraft cooperatives in Haiti and Thailand, I settled with my husband in Chiang Rai, Thailand in 1983,
founding Golden Triangle Tours, the first touring organization conceived and run by locally born and
raised residents.
In 1993, I established Ahimsa Gallery, the first cultural centre in Chiang Rai featuring exhibitions by local
artists, poetry readings by local writers and lectures on art and culture. While working with village
carpenters building locally inspired architecture, I served as a volunteer docent at Rai Mae Fah Luang,
Later, I supervised the development of the first museum of ethnology in the area, at which I finally
served as a curator.
The challenges of creating a professional institution based in local participation led me to follow a
master course at the Reinwardt Academy, the faculty of museology and heritage of the Amsterdam
University of the Arts. Working as a consultant I research Southeast Asian museology linking it to local
participation.
Links
Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park: masterpieces.asemus.museum/museum/detail.nhn?museumId=1113
www.maefahluang.org/rmfl
asemus.museum/museum/mae-fah-luang-foundation/
Hong Luang Saeng Kaew Museum, Wat Phra Kaew: www.watphrakaew-chiangrai.com/eng/museum.php
Convenor: Informal Northern Thai Group www.intgcm.thehostserver.com/
Publication
Weldon, R., “Transformative Museology”, Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, no. 37 (2010), 75-85
(http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/1635/1301)
Sessions in which Ms. Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong participates
Paper
Ms. Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong, Consultant in Museology (Participant)
Sessions in which Ms. Rebecca Weldon Sithiwong attends
UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée
Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)
Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)
Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)
France Lessard (Participant)
David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
Cocktail
Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)
Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)
Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)
Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)
Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)
Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
Research-Creation
Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
Pause
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
Regular session
Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Moderator)
Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M260 - SALLE ANNULÉE
Regular session
Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Moderator)
Dr Nathalie Lancret, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Moderator)
Dr Vincent Négri, CNRS - Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518
Regular session
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)
Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
Pause
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
Repas
Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)
Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
Regular session
Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Moderator)
Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
Regular session
Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)
Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour