PAA Europe Schedule

Tentative Schedule

Wednesday 29 October
Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) (Jubelpark 10/ Parc du Cinquantenaire 10)

9.00 – 10.00
Registration & coffee bar

10.00 – 12.10
Opening    
- The ‘Deconstruction’ of Ritual Monuments of Easter Island, Nicolas Cauwe, RMAH 
- A short History of Oceanic Art Collections in the RMAH, Bart Suys, RMAH
- “Tribal” tattooing: the revival of tattooing in Oceania and in the Western world, Madeleine Brilot, RMAH
Break
- Rock Art of Polynesia: Anthropomorphic figures of Easter Island, Hawaii and Marquesas Islands Serge Lemaitre, RMAH
- Hehe Mata / Face to Face: the body in Marquesan art, Carol Ivory, Washington State University, USA

12.10 – 14.00
Lunch  
 
14.00 – 15.00
Guided tour: new display Oceanic Collection by Nicolas Cauwe

15.00 – 16.00
- Neglected Treasures: The Art of Oro Province of Papua New Guinea, Harry Beran, Edward Aguirre, Australia
- Symbolism of Arrows from Papua, Carmen Halfide, Stichting Papua Cultureel Erfgoed (PACE), The Netherlands
- Yam storehouses and Trobriand Islanders, Désirée Wisse, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Tama Tu Tama Ora. Tama Noho Tama Mate.  Representations of the whare as body in contemporary Maori art. Ngarino Ellis, Aotearoa /New Zealand

Thursday 30 October
The Ethnographic Collections of the University of Ghent, Het Pand (Onderbergen 2)

10.00 – 12.30
Welcome
- Pacific Art in a Global Context: World Art Studies and the  Visual Cultures of Oceania, Wilfried van Damme, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
- How do we read an image in its historical context? A case Study, Christian Kaufmann, Switzerland
Break
- Micronesian Art and the Transmission of Knowledge, Ingrid Heermann, Lindenmuseum, Germany
- Pacific Bodies from Solomon Islands; Deborah Waite, University of Hawai'i
- The representation of the human body in Sulka Art, Antje Kelm, Volkenkundig Museum Hamburg, Germany
- Karen Jacobs, University of East Anglia, England

12.30 – 14.15
Lunch      

14.15 – 15.15
Tour Ethnographic Collections of the University of Ghent     

15.15 – 16.00       
- The transient and the transcendent: body decoration and transfiguration on the Great Papuan Plateau. Gozewijn van Beek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dance on Rotuma: The art of Expression,Ragnhild Scheiffes, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- More than simply traditional - The Pacific Sisters, Jacqueline Charles-Rault, University of Auckland, Aotearoa /New Zealand

Friday, 31 October
Ethnographic Museum Antwerp (Suikerrui 19)

10.00
Welcome
-  Visit to the permanent display of Oceanic art (and other collections) of Ethnographic Museum Antwerp

14.00
- First bus leaves at the quay of the Schelde
- Visiting a private Oceania Collection

From 19.00
Nocturne with reception: the exhibition ‘Art of Oceania. Signs of Rituals, Symbols of Power’ at the Cultural Centre ING, Brussels (Koninsplein 6/ Place Royale 6)