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Join us for the opening session to welcome the delegates and emerging scholars, discuss the special focus, and next year's conference. 

Amareswar Galla is the UNESCO Chair on Inclusive Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development. An alumnus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi with PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra; currently Professor of Inclusive Cultural Leadership and Founding Director, International Centre for Inclusive Cultural Leadership, Anant National University, Ahmedabad, India; Founding Executive Director of the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Australia/India/USA; formerly full Professor of World Heritage and Sustainable Development at the University of Split located in the World Heritage City of Split; first full Professor of Museum Studies in Australia at the University of Queensland, Brisbane; and prior to that full Professor and Director of Sustainable Heritage Development Programs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; extensive publication record includes the flagship project and publication, World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders, Cambridge University Press & UNESCO, for the 40th Anniversary of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention launched in Kyoto, Japan, 2012 (English, Korean & French). (http://inclusivemuseums.org/index.php/executive-director/)

Joana Sousa Monteiro is director of the Museum of Lisbon since 2015. She was a museum adviser to the Lisbon Councillor for Culture (2010-2014). She was Assistant Coordinator of the Portuguese Museums Network at the National Institute of Museums (2000-2010). She holds a degree in Art History, an MA in Museology, and an MA in Arts Management. 

She has been member of the Portuguese National Committee of ICOM (up to 2016) and is Chair of ICOM – CAMOC, the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of the Museums of Cities (since 2016).

Daniel Tucker works as an artist, writer and organizer developing documentaries, publications, exhibitions and events inspired by his interest in social movements and the people and places from which they emerge. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics and his collaborative art projects have been published and presented widely and are documented on the archive miscprojects.com. Selected exhibitions of his work have included Commonwealth & Council gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Gene Siskel Film Center and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Art In General and the Park Avenue Armory (New York City, NY), Slought (Philadelphia), Werkleitz Biennial 6 (Germany), Centro José Guerrero (Spain), the 4th Athens Biennale (Greece) as well as streets, protests, front yards, bus tours and rooftops.

He has an active public-program and exhibition curating practice, and has organized exhibitions, publications and conferences for national organizations such as Creative Time, Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, A Blade of Grass, Common Field and numerous community and university art centers, galleries and museums. In 2016 he was given a grant from Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to curate the exhibition and event series “Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements” which continued on a national tour of 9 cities until fall of 2019. In 2020 he is served Curator in Residence with Mural Arts Philadelphia and a Fellow with the Institute for Curatorial Research & Practice at SAIC (Chicago). He is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Art of Leadership program, earned his MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2014 he has been an Assistant Professor and founding Graduate Program Director in Socially-Engaged Art at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia.

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