
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 auxquelles Rachael Coghlan participe
9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Rachael Coghlan assiste
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

10:30
10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
11:00
11:00
- 11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage
- Participant.e Ms Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant.e Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant.e Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 13.30 Perspectives on Past and Future in Present Tyneside
- Participant.e Leonie Wieser (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant.e Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- Paper
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- 14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage
- Participant.e Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant.e Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Paper
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

9:00
9:00
- 10.00 Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 09.30 Documentaires et dialogues citoyens : des « artéfacts » au coeur de l'exposition muséale. L'expérience du Centre d'histoire de Montréal
- Participant.e Catherine Charlebois (Centre d'histoire de Montréal) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.30 Roundtable Q&A with All Speakers
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant.e Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant.e Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
- 11.00 To and from Youth: Co-producing a Learning Program on Digital Democracy with Youths
- Participant.e Torhild Skåtun (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 09.10 “Home is the Streets”: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy
- Participant.e Rachael Kiddey (Independent Social Research Foundation) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 10.00 Challenging the Hegemony of European Holocaust Memory: A Study of Different Approaches to Representing Difficult Heritage in Europe, Asia and North America
- Participant.e Sandra Sulamith Graefenstein (ANU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Paper
- 12.00 Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation
- Participant.e Rachael Coghlan (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 10.00 Authentic Kyrgyzstan: Top-Down Politics Meet Bottom-Up Heritage
- Participant.e Anne Pyburn (Indiana University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 heures
- Regular session
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 09.30 The Legacy of Communism: Difficult Histories and Contested Narratives in Romania
- Participant.e Dr Sheila Watson (University of Leicester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 11.00 “That’s Not a Term I Really Use": Investigating Stakeholders’ Understanding of Heritage
- Participant.e Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (Indiana University (IUPUI)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
- 16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
- Participant.e Jieyi Xie (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- Paper
- 11.30 Toward Participatory Development of Museum Performance Indicators: A Means of Embedding "Shared Authority"? Experiences from Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Participant.e Dr Jane A. Legget (Auckland War Memorial Museum) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Roundtable