Keynote Speakers

Keynote I

Keynote Speaker: WU, MI-CHA
Job Title: Director, National Palace Museum
Keynote Speech: Uncovering the Concealments: Museums' Roles for Transitional Justice

Experiences

•  Deputy Minister of Council of Cultural Affairs (2002~2004.05)

•  Professor of History Department, National Taiwan University (2006.08~)

•  Director of National Museum of Taiwan History (Preparatory office) (2006.12~2007.03)

•  Director of National Museum of Taiwan History (2007.03~2008.07)

•  Acting Director of National Museum of Taiwan Literature (Preparatory office) (2008.02~2008.07)

•  Chairman of Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University (2009.08~2010.02)

•  President of Historical Academia (2016.05~2019.02)

"Uncovering the Concealments: Museums' Roles for Transitional Justice" Speech Abstract (PDF format)

Speech Video Link : https://youtu.be/Bzk8wsISHLM（This video will be shown to the public for 6 months.）

Keynote Speech II

Keynote Speaker: Junko Kanekiyo
Job Title: Curator, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
Keynote Speech: Communicating History through Exhibitions (Online Speech)

Junko Kanekiyo is a curator of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She conducts artifact research, manages conservations, produces exhibitions, organizes workshops, supervises interns, and leads the curatorial team of the museum. Junko Kanekiyo has a MA of Sociology from Hitotsubashi University, Japan and a MA of Museum Studies from University of Toronto, Canada. She worked as an intern at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005. She is a member of ICMEMO (International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes).

Her research interests include: representation of difficult history in the exhibition, third generation Holocaust survivors’ involvement in the Holocaust museums, and communicating Japanese war experience in peace museums.

“Communicating History through Exhibitions” Speech Abstract (PDF format)

Speech Video Link : https://youtu.be/QhUlQw04U-k（This video will be shown to the public for 6 months.）

Keynote Speech III

Keynote Speaker: Matthew Storey
Job Title: Curator (Collections), Historic Royal Palaces*
Keynote Speech:1000 Years of Kings, Queens and In-betweens: Researching and Interpreting LGBT+ Histories at Historic Royal Palaces (Online Speech)

Matthew Storey is a specialist in LGBTQ+ research, interpretation and representation in museums and heritage sites. He studied History of Art at the University of York, and History of Design at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). He began his career at The National Gallery, London, before moving to the V&A as an Assistant Curator. At the V&A he worked on the major redisplay of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, and in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, and Prints and Drawings departments as part of the Assistant Curator Development Programme. He co-chaired the V&A’s LGBT Working Group, leading on events and interpretation in the museum.

Matthew joined Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) in 2014, and works across the six sites and full range of collections in the care of the charity. His publications and research include work on the historic landscape at Kew Gardens, image making in the 18th-century royal court, and Queen Victoria’s clothing. Matthew’s current research focusses on LGBTQ+ royal history. In 2018, he co-organised the international conference ‘Ruling Sexualities: Gender, Sexuality and the Crown’ with the University of Winchester, and co-edited the proceedings as a special issue of the Royal Studies Journal. Matthew’s research has supported innovative LGBTQ+ programming, exhibitions and live interpretation at HRP, and he has appeared on TV and other media to promote this work. Since 2019 he has chaired HRP’s LGBT+ Working Group, leading work on this area in the organisation. Matthew is on the advisory panel of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network, a subject specialist network founded in 2020 to support LGBTQ+ work in UK museums and heritage sites.

“1000 Years of Kings, Queens and In-betweens: Researching and Interpreting LGBT+ Histories at Historic Royal Palaces” Speech Abstract (PDF format)

Speech Video Link : https://youtu.be/4l7PYU3JznU（This video will be shown to the public for 6 months.）

* Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace and Hillsborough Castle and Gardens.