Key note speakers 'How to CATCH the future'
Key note speaker: Chad Gaffield
Chad Gaffield, one of Canada’s foremost historians, is president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, est. 1977). Gaffield came to SSHRC in 2006 from the University of Ottawa, where he held a University Research Chair and was the founding director of the Institute of Canadian Studies. He is a former president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Gaffield has won many awards for his teaching, research and innovative theories and methods related to computer-based, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration.
Key note speaker: Valentijn Byvanck
The Dutch Nationaal Historisch Museum (NHM), to be developed in Arnhem, will expose ‘every Dutchman’s history’. With the aid of multimedia technology Dutch history will become an experience as much within the walls of the future museum as outside. Proof of this is the site www.jijmaaktgeschiedenis.nl, being as yet the first platform for connecting the public and the NHM. In his key note Valentijn Byvanck, one of the directors of the NHM, will reflect on the integration of technology in the museum. He is a cultural historian, author of This is the Flow: The museum as a space for ideas, and the former director of the Zeeuws Museum.