Rachael Coghlan

PhD Candidate

Australian National University

Participates in 2 items

Rachael Coghlan is the CEO of Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre. For nearly 20 years, Rachael Coghlan has worked in leadership positions in national cultural institutions in Australia’s museum sector, shaping the full continuum of visitor engagement from audience development, exhibitions and events, to digital and external communications. Rachael is passionate about how museums can continue to develop and was recently curator and executive producer for an experimental exhibition, Power of 1: Does your voice count? at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. This project trialled new approaches to audience engagement, applying ideas and practice proposed by Nina Simon’s influential book The Participatory Museum (2010). The Power of 1 exhibition is now the subject of a research case study which examines whether the rhetoric of museum participation is meeting its aims. Interviews with visitors reveal perceptions of the participatory exhibition experience as well as reflections on the state of Australian democracy. This data is complemented by longitudinal visitor research, observations, and interviews with museum professionals. Rachael is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Museum and Heritage Studies at the Australian National University. Her research interests and methodology explore opportunities to democratise the museum experience using an interpretivist research lens which genuinely recognises the agency of the visitor.

Sessions in which Rachael Coghlan participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...

Sessions in which Rachael Coghlan attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

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)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Signup required

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)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

11:00

11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...

11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...

13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...

13.30 Perspectives on Past and Future in Present Tyneside

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Leonie Wieser, Northumbria University (Participant)

This paper will explore the outlook on the present and future provided by contemporary community heritage projects in Tyneside, UK. It will ask ...

11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

13:30

13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...

Cultural Heritage and the Working Class

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past and the present, and there is a growing tendency for the...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Signup required

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)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...

09.30 Documentaires et dialogues citoyens : des « artéfacts » au coeur de l'exposition muséale. L'expérience du Centre d'histoire de Montréal

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Catherine Charlebois, Centre d'histoire de Montréal (Participant)

Depuis 2001, le Centre d’histoire de Montréal (CHM) a choisi de mettre le témoignage au cœur de ses projets. Ce faisant, il a pu explorer le pot...

11.30 Roundtable Q&A with All Speakers

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...

11.00 To and from Youth: Co-producing a Learning Program on Digital Democracy with Youths

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Torhild Skåtun, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Participant)

This paper will present the project “To and from Youth” at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, which allowed a group of eight youths...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

09.10 “Home is the Streets”: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Rachael Kiddey, Independent Social Research Foundation (Participant)

The Homeless Heritage project (2009–2013) was a collaborative public archaeology project that sought to document contemporary homelessness from ...

10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein, ANU (Participant)

Over the past two and a half decades, a new type of museum dedicated to representing violent pasts through the lens of human rights has emerged ...

12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

Is it possible to democratize the museum experience and open it to non-expert voices through the use of participatory approaches? This paper wil...

10.00 Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Anne Pyburn, Indiana University (Participant)

The Soviet modernist policy of severing ties with the past has left the rapidly globalizing post-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic with some difficulties i...

“For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Regular session

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Moderator)

In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Moderator)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...

09.30 The Legacy of Communism: Difficult Histories and Contested Narratives in Romania

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Dr Sheila Watson, University of Leicester (Participant)

This paper will explore whether it is possible for official histories in national museums and nationally important heritage sites to be democrat...

11.00 “That’s Not a Term I Really Use": Investigating Stakeholders’ Understanding of Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Before we can begin to understand what heritage changes, we have to understand the fields of power and significance in which it operates. In the...

16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Jieyi Xie, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...

11.30 Toward Participatory Development of Museum Performance Indicators: A Means of Embedding "Shared Authority"? Experiences from Aotearoa, New Zealand

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Dr Jane A. Legget, Auckland War Memorial Museum (Participant)

In Aotearoa, New Zealand, museums and Maori increasingly work together to elaborate practices for managing material culture and Indigenous knowl...

13:30

(in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Roundtable

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Moderator)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Participant)

Dr Steve Brown, The University of Sydney (Moderator)

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Participant)

The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...

15:30

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Potential)

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...