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ISTANBUL – The Women’s Museums Conference will be held with the title ‘Women’s museums: Centre of social memory and place of inclusion’ by the Women’s Museum Istanbul as a challenge and correction to incomplete and inaccurate representation of women in traditional museums. The conference will be held on 20-22 October 2016.

Women’s Museum Istanbul is going to hold ‘the International Women’s Museums Conference: Women’s Museums: Centre of Social Memory and Place of Inclusion’ on 20-22 October 2016 with the partnership of Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication. Women activists and academics, who carry out studies on women’s museum in many countries, will attend the conference.

Women’s Museum Istanbul made announcement about the conference and say, “The conference is aiming to discuss the following points with relation to the role of women's museums in social change, their approach to social memory and inclusive cultural practices: Exploring and understanding social memory in women's museums, concepts of women's museums to create and re-create the ongoing process of social memory with reference to diversity, conceptual approaches of women's museums for inclusive policy in museums, cooperation partners of women's museums to transform the museum into a platform for inclusion, strategies of women's museums to develop a platform for debate and social involvement and concepts of women's museums as a public platform for gender-democratic dialogue.”

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