PAA Europe Schedule

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

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
- Artifact, body decoration and identity amongst the northern Abelam of the East Sepik of PNG, Noël Mc.Guigan, Ireland
- 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

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

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
- The transient and the transcendent: body decoration and transfiguration on the Great Papuan Plateau. Gozewijn van Beek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

12.30 – 14.15
Lunch      

14.15 – 15.15
Tour Ethnographic Collections of the University of Ghent     

15.15 – 15.45
- Kanak engravings. A continuing tradition, Roberta Colombo, Musée d’Ethnografie, Geneva, Schwitzerland
- More than simply traditional - The Pacific Sisters, Jacqueline Charles-Rault, University of Auckland, Aotearoa /New Zealand
Break
- General Meeting of the PAA

Friday 31 October
Ethnographic Museum Antwerp (Suikerrui 19, Antwerp) and visiting a private collection (limited places, participation can not be guaranteed) 
Beware, put on your comfortable shoes for the walk to the private collection!
 
There will be two groups: one starts with a visit of the private collection and goes to Antwerp afterwards (Bus 1). The other starts with a visit of the Ethnographic Museum in Antwerp and then goes to the private collection (Bus 2). Exact times are not possible to give and will depend on the traffic and so on.

10.00
Welcome    
 - Visit to the permanent display of Oceanic art (and other collections) of Ethnographic Museum Antwerp; Visit to a private Oceania collection
15.00
- Visiting a private Oceania Collection; Visit to the permanent display of Oceanic art (and other collections) of Ethnographic Museum Antwerp
From 19.00
Nocturne with reception: the exhibition ‘Art of Oceania. Signs of Rituals, Symbols of Power’ at the Cultural Centre ING, Brussels (Koningsplein 6/ Place Royale 6, Brussels)