SPEME partners visit

Start date: 06/05/2022

End date: 25/05/2022

Project partners of SPEME (read about the project here) visit each other in turns. Groups of academics and practitioners from memory sites exchange on their work and discuss challenging practices from their own organizations and networks. In May 2022 H401 and the University of Amsterdam host colleagues from Italy, Argentina and Colombia.

If you are interested to join any of the following events please send a short mail to productie@h401.org 

6 May
Herengracht 401

17:30-20:00                     SPEME Network Meeting, including drinks and finger food

9 May
Online                               Europeday
https://cultureactioneurope.org/events/amplify-in-action/
14 hrs                                presentation of H401 contribution to Amplify

10 May
Herengracht 401
14.00                                 Introduction about the work of H401 and guided tour through the building

15.30                                 coffee break and walk to UvA: OMHP C2.05 https://www.uva.nl/locaties/binnenstad/oudemanhuispoort.html

16.00                                 Marketplace of projects and ideas.
                                          Moderated by Prof. Ihab Saloul (UvA)

  • 18M8L – 18 Months 8 Locations (40 min)
  • conversation (20 min)
  • Camilo Forero (Bogota), The essentialism of the victim: dehumanizing people. (20 min)
  • Lorena Villate (Bogota), Narratives of female exile as an act of political resistance: the Colombian case. (20 min)
  • conversation (20 min)

18.00                                 Walk to H401 for drinks and finger food

11 May
Rijksmuseum

10.00                                 Visit Revolusi including talk with the Conservator Harm Stevens

13.00                                 joint lunch at Rijskmuseum (at own expenses)

17 May
Herengracht 401

18:00 – 20.30 hrs            presentation of recent work and artist talk with Merapi Obermayer

19 May
Herengracht 401
19:00 – 20.30                   Rabiaâ Benlahbib presents ‘a forest, a lense, a fiber’, an artistic research residency about a gift that traveled to The Hague in remembrance of missing people in Colombia.

25 May

11:00                            Either a group visit or individual visits to The International Institute of Social History (IISG / https://iisg.amsterdam/en) to see the materials and collections on Colombia and South America.

15.00 – 16.30                   Housemuseums Amsterdam

                                          Thijs Broers, curator Amsterdam Museum and expert on house museums and historical houses speaks about the role and meaning of the historical house in the field of museums.