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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

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9:00
9:00

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Sessions in which Rachael Coghlan attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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17:00
17:00
  • Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
  • 17:00 - 19:30  | 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
19:30
19:30

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
10:30
10:30
11:00
11:00
  • Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
  • 11:00 - 17:00  | 6 hours
  • The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
  • Regular session
    Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
    Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage
12:30
12:30
13:30
13:30
  • Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
  • 13:30 - 15:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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...
  • Regular session
    Heritage Changes the Local Societies
    Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
13:30
13:30
15:30
15:30