August 2009
Real Museums in Virtual Worlds - Museums Colonise Second Life
Reality versus virtuality
The museum between tradition and transformation
Oslo University, Norway

August 2009
World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
"Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage"
Milan, Italy

June 2009
Representing the Holocaust with Advanced Technologies
Yad Vashem and MASSUAH - The Institute for the Study of the Holocaust Memorial to Members of Zionist Youth Movements in Disaster and Revolt Kibbutz Yad Hashmone


July 2009
Communication and Culture: Interfaces and Confrontations
In Memory of Prof. Michael Gurevitch
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and IDC Herzliya
Panel: Shakespeare, Mozart and Baryshnikov – can they survive in a new media era?
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May 2009
When is a Library Not a Library?
libraries and librarians in Second life (in Hebrew)
Israeli Event for Online Information, eContent & e-Resource Management Tel Aviv, Israel

October 2008
Musing the Metaverse
14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM),Limassol, Cyprus.

September 2008
Musing the MUVE's
The annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums
Athens, Greece

July 2008
Communication Across Borders
The Asper Institute for New Media Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia (IDC)

July 2008
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture
The Dead Sea Scrolls Online: Taking on a [Second] Life of Their Own
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

June 2008
Culture Online
Peering Down the Wormhole: Cultural Instiutions Slide Between 2D, Mobile and 3D Platforms, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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April 2008
Thinking and acting in persistent worlds
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
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March 2008
Museology Department
University of Haifa
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March 2008
Persistent Worlds: Will They Ever Go Away?
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The Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference held in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on March 8, 2008.
Program

December 2007
A Passage from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 - Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own
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Mandel Leadership Institute Jerusalem

November 2007
Staking a Claim - Memory Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own
EVA/MINERVA 2007
See images from Panel

April 2007
Montreal, Canada
The Digital Cultural Content Forum
An Introduction to Second Life

March 2007
Toronto, Canada
From Web 2.0 to 2nd Life:  the Ultimate Consensus or an Aggregation of the Mediocre?
University of Toronto, Faculty
of Information Studies See Webcast

March 2007
San Fransisco, US
Closing Plenary; Panel and Discussion: What's Next? Challenges in Building the
Social and Participatory Web
Chair: Alternative realities,
Social Interaction,
Coolaborative Gaming and Second Life
Museums and the Web

February 2007
Berlin, Germany
Europe's cultural and scientific heritage in a digital world
From Web 2.0 to 2nd Life: the ultimate consensus or an aggregation of the mediocre?
(Abstract)

October 2006 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Cultural portals: A new era of cooperation
Cultural Portal, Israel

June 2006
Salzburg, Austria
An Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage
Collecting, Connecting - and Conserving? Web 2.00 - blogs and wikis;
Flickrs and folksonomies - can a museum simply hand it all over?
Abstract (Pdf.)
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March 2006
Alburqurque, US
Museums and the Web
Chair: Participation +
Personalization
Visitors' Voices
Critroom II

November 2006
Tunis, Tunisia
UN World Summit on the
Information Society
Israel Highway, Haaretz report

May 2005
Haifa, Israel
The Center for the Study of the Information society
Curating Online Art: Elitism or Populism? (a debate)
Dr. Susan Hazan and
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli

April 2005
Berlin, Germany
Quality of Cultural Websites
How to ensure and evaluate MINERVA Products on Best Practicein Digitisation of
Cultural Heritage
MINERVA Report 2004
Evaluation of Five Websites
MINERVA - MINERVA-Plus - Conference / Workshop

February 2005
Tel Aviv, Israel
ISOC-IL 9th Annual Conference
What Clicks? Museums at the Click of a Mouse
David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv
Abstract
Presentation pps.

December 2004
Taiwan
The Regeneration Of Digital Arts The International Symposium on
Digital Art
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
Hazan, S. (2004) 'Locating [Israeli]
digital art - artists think global and act local' in Regeneration of Digital Art, The International Symposium of Digital Art in Taiwan, Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan,
National Museum of Fine Arts /
National Chiao-Tung University: Taiwan.
PDF in English and Chinese
Download paper (English)

October 2004
Jerusalem
Co-Chair - Jerusalem Conference
on the Digitisation of
Cultural Heritage
WG5- User Needs and Quality Framework for Common Access
Points Universal Access
What Clicks? - Susan Hazan

October 2004
Korea
Museums and Intangible
Heritage
ICOM- International Councel of Museums
Panel - “Digital Heritage and
Future Museum”
Where is the gallery?
Virtual museums in an age
of augmented reality
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Paper - The Israel Museum:
Living together

September 2003 - Scotland
Visual Knowledges,
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities,
The University of Edinburgh
Arts and Humanities Research
Institute, University of Glasgow
Edinburgh College of Art
Panel: Exhibition and display
Paper - The Musesphere
and the E-Museum

July, 2003 - UK
ASA Decennial Conference
Anthropology and Science,
Manchester Univ.
Panel: Exhibition experiments:
technologies and cultures of
Convenor: Sharon Macdonald
Paper - The Virtual Aura

March, 2003 - USA
Museums and the Web 2003,
Charlotte, North Carolina
Program Committee
Paper - Edutainment in 3D virtual worlds.
The SEE experience
Mini-workshop A day at Qumran
Engage in a 3D world
cooperative experience
Chair - Virtual Companions

November 2002
Leicester, UK
The Virtual Aura: the technologies of exhibition and the exhibition of technologies
'Researching Museums' Seminar University of Leicester Department of Museum Studies

March 2002
Florence, Italy
The Virtual Sead Sea
Scrolls and the Electronic Art Garden
EVA - Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts
Conference proceedings

July 2002 - Jerusalem
ETAI English Teachers’ Association, Israel Annual National ETAI Conference "Language -
The Key to Nations",
Jerusalem, Israel
Keynote Speaker - A Key to the Collections - the Virtual Museum

April 2002 - USA
Museums and the Web,
Boston, USA
Program committee
Chair - Touching the Virtual - Towards Tangible Virtualities

March 2002 - Italy
EVA - Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, Florence, Italy
The Virtual Dead Sea Scrolls and the Electronic Art Garden

September 2001
Milano, Italy
ICHIM 2001
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Program Committee
Paper - From the First Millennium to the Third, the Content is the Message

July 2001
Glasgow, Scotland
EVA2001
Paper - The Virtual Aura
and the Digital Flâneur
Conference Proceedings,
Editor James Hemsley
VASARI UK

March 2001 - Italy
Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, USA
Program Committee
Plenary Closing Session
The Virtual Aura

February 2000 - UK
ESRC Research Seminar
Museums and Society,
University of Leicester, UK
Paper - Portals of Curiosities,
The Museums Online

March 99 - USA
Museums and the Web- 99 - New
Orleans, USA
Program Committee
Paper - Linking and Thinking
The Museum@School
Guest Curator - Event, Udi Aloni,
In the End, God was Dead.
Plenary Closing Session
Socialising the Virtual Space

October 98 - Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
Guest Speaker Education
Round Table
Presentation -Interactive Education

September 98 - USA
Knowledge Creation -
Knowledge Sharing -
Knowledge Preservation
The 1998 Museum
Computer Network Conference
Santa Monica, USA
Workshop -Empowering the Visitor at the Museum Web Site: Designing Points of Response
and Interaction for the VisitorPaper - In the Light of the Menorah: Story of a Symbol -
A 3D Exhibition

April 98 - Canada
Museums and the Web Conference,
98, Toronto, Canada
Chair - "Rich Experiences"
Paper -The Museum Website as a Two Way Communication Vehicle

November 97 - Austria
OKS, Osterreichischen
Kultur-Service, Vienna, Austria Guest Speaker
The forum, " Von der Kunst Schule ze machen"
Report -Interactive Education, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

December 97 -Singapore
Introduction: @rt a Cyberart show by Lin Hsin Hsin,®
Caldwell House, Chijmes,
Singapore, 1997

March 97 - USA
Museums and the Web:
An International Conference,
Los Angeles, USA
Workshop -Making Your Site Interactive
Chair - "Museum Applications
of the Web Experience"O

ctober 97 - USA
Museum Computer Network '97
St. Louis, USA
Communication within the Museum and Its Community within the Community of Museums
The Annual Conference of the Computer Network.
Workshop - The Interactive Website
Paper - Making New Connections
on the Web
The Interactive Web-site

September 97 - France
ICHIM 97', Paris, France.
Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and
Interactivity in Museums
Paper -The Fourth Wall -
The Virtual in the Museum

July 97 - Jerusalem
The Dead Sea Scrolls- Fifty Years after Their Discovery, Major Issues and New Approaches,
Jerusalem, Israel
Chair - Computer-Assisted Research
on the Dead Sea Scrolls

November 96 - Canada
Museum Computer Network
MCN '96/CHIN '96,
Ottawa, Canada
Reaching Museum Audiences
Using New Technology,
Paper -The Virtual Art Experience -
Beyond the Museum Walls
Children of the World Draw Jerusalem

September 96 - Austria
ICOM, CECA '96, Vienna
On Site and Worldwide,
New Strategies for Communication
in Museums
Paper - The Virtual Art Experience
Beyond the Museum Walls

May 96 - Israel
Info 96' , Tel Aviv, Israel, Information in Education: Leisure Time on the Computer, Constructive or Destructive.
Paper - Museums Without Walls, the Real and the Virtual

October 95 - USA
ICHIM 95' - MCN9
San Diego, USA
Hands on Hypermedia &
Interactivity in Museum
Paper - Museums and Art on the Internet

May 95 - Israel
Info 95', Tel Aviv, Israel, Internet Applications
Paper -"Art and Museums
on the Internet"

Susan Hazan on
Google Books

Musing the Metaverse
14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSM),Limassol, Cyprus.
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Whose History is it anyway?
PROphile, Magazine of the Friends of The National Archives, UK
Vol 19, No1, April 2008

The Israel Museum launches new website
People and Computers
(Interview with Avi Bilovsku, in Hebrew) 7.04.08

YOUser: Handbook on cultural web user interaction
edited by MINERVA EC Working Group “Quality, Accessibility and Usability”
A Handbook on cultural websites user interaction
In italian
Download publication in Italian

Hazan S. (2007)
Cultural Institutions Take on a [Second] Life of their Own
International Journal of Digital Cultural Heritage and E-Tourism (IJDCE).
For a special Issue on Digital Matters
and Intangible Heritage

Hazan S. (2006) 'A crisis of authority: old lamps for new', in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, Ed. Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine,
MIT Press

Hazan S. (2006) 'An overview
of e-content in Israel' in E-content: Voices from the Ground, Peter A. Bruck and Osama Manzar,
Digital Empowerment
Foundation World Summit
Award, New Dehli.

Hazan S. and D. Winer (2005)
Conference Report:
The Conference on Digitization
of Science and Cultural Heritage,
in Visual Resources
Volume XXI Number 4 2005,
The Charlesworth Group,
Wakefield.Hazan, (2005) 'Weaving science webs',
in E-learning and Virtual
Science Centers, Ed.
Leo Tan Wee Hin and
R. Subramaniam,
Idea Group Publishing, Hershey.

Hazan (2005) 'The virtual Dead Sea Scrolls and the electronic art garden' in James Hemsley (ed.)
Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions,
Selected Papers from the
EVA Conferences, London:
Ashgate.

Hazan, S. (2004) 'Locating [Israeli] digital art - artists think global and act local'
in Regeneration of Digital
Art, The International Symposium
of Digital Art in Taiwan, Council
for Cultural Affairs, Executive
Yuan,National Museum of
Fine Arts
National Chiao-Tung University:
Taiwan. Download also PDF in English and Chinese
Symposium: The Regeneration of Digital Arts, International
Symposium on Digital Art

Museums and Intangible
Heritage
ICOM- International Councel of Museums

Living Together; looking
through the lens Weaving Community Webs:
A position paper
Thematic Issues
Issue 5: Virtual Communities and Collaboration
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January 2004

A new marketplace of ideas –
harnessing virtual communities
to build symbiotic relationships.
An interview with Susan Hazan
By Joost van Kasteren,
Digicult journalist
DigiCult Info. - A Newsletter on Digital Culture -
Issue 7 ISSN 1609-3941

Paper - The Musesphere and the E-Museum
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Visual Knowledges, University
of Edinburgh
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities
Research Institute, University of Glasgow Edinburgh College of Art
Panel: Exhibition and display
September 17, 2003

July 2003
Paper - The Virtual Aura
ASA Decennial Conference
Anthropology and Science,
Manchester Univ.
Panel: Exhibition experiments:
technologies and cultures of
Convenor: Sharon Macdonald


2003 Edutainment
in 3D virtual worlds.
The SEE experience
Selected Papers from an
International Conference,
Museums and the Web,
Charlotte, March 2003,
Edited by David Bearman
and Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 2003

March 2003
The Virtual Aura: the technologies of exhibition and the exhibition of technologies
'Researching Museums' Seminar University of Leicester Department
of Museum Studies

November 2002
The Virtual Dead
Sea Scrolls and the Electronic
Art Garden
EVA - Electronic Imaging
and the Visual Arts
Conference proceedings, Florence


NINCH Community
Report 2001:
An Annual Report from the Field

NET>COM.ORG.MUSEUM
Hazan
July 2002

Museum Learning Online: guidelines for good practice for museums and galleries
developing good practice
in museum learning projects for the web mediumWritten and compiled by
Peter Clarke
Acknowledegments
November 2000—February 2001
Resource: The Council for
Museums, Archives
and Libraries

The Israel Museum and the Electronic Surrogate
Cultivate Interactive, issue 5,
1 October 2001

From the First
Millennium to the Third, the
Content is the Message
Selected Papers from an
International
Conference, ICHIM 2001,
Politecnico di Milano,
Milano, Italy, Edited by
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 2001

September 2001The Virtual Aura
and the Digital Flâneur
EVA2001, Glasgow, July, 2001
Conference Proceedings,
Editor James Hemsley
VASARI UK

July 2001
The Virtual Aura
Selected Papers from an
International
Conference, Museums and the
Web 2001 - Seattle

March 2001
Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh,
USA, 2001

March 2001
An International
Conference for Museum
Professionals Working on the Web

March 1999
Museums and the Web
New Orleans, Louisiana,
March 1999, Library Hi Tech News,
MCB, University Press, Bradford,
UK. No. 165, 1999

March 1999
Museum@school: The Ruth
Youth Wing Connects the
Israel Museum to
the Classroom
The Israel Museum Journal,
Volume XV II,
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel

August 1999
Linking and Thinking -
The Museum@School
Selected Papers from an
International Conference,
Museums and the Web 1999 - New Orleans, Louisiana,
March, 1999¨, Edited by
David Bearman and
Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA, 1999

March 1999
Introduction:
@rt a Cyberart show by
Lin Hsin Hsin,®
Caldwell House, Chijmes,
Singapore,

September 1997
The Fourth Wall -
The Virtual in the Museum
Proceedings/Actes,
ICHIM 97, Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia in Museum, MusËe de Louvre, Paris, Archives & Museum Informatics, Pittsburgh, USA, 1997

The Fourth Wall - The Virtual in the Museum
Museum Interactive Multimedia
1997: Cultural Heritage Systems
Design and Interfaces, Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics,
Pittsburgh, USA. 1997

September 1997
Virtual Museum Tour -
From Reality to Fantasy and Back
(in Hebrew) Mishkafayim
Art Magazine Quarterly, No.28,
Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv,

June 1997
The Virtual Museum
The Israel Museum Journal,
Volume XV
The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel

August 1997
Children of the World
Draw Jerusalem - Museum Video Window
MCN Spectra, A Quarterly
Publication of the Museum Computer Network, Volume, 24/2 Winter. New York, NY, USA,

1996/97
The Virtual Art Experience -
Beyond the Museum Walls
New Strategies for Communication
in Museums,Proceedings of ICOM/CECA '96,
WUV, Universtatsverlag, Vienna, Austria.
1996