Lectures and Presentations
November 2018, Tel Aviv, GLAMTLV2018, Tel Aviv, Panel: EVA Minerva – A European Horizon
October 2018, Nicosia, Euromed, Investing in the future of our Digital Cultural Heritage: The EU Horizon 2020 CSA ViMM Roadmap, leading expert
June 2017, Slovenia, VIMM - Virtual Multimodal Museum Network, Chair: Working Group 1.1, What is a Virtual Museum
June 2017, Malta, “Migration and Culture: how can our past educate our present?” Europeana meeting
July 2016, London, Electronic Visualisation & the Arts (EVA), Keynote: The Museum Speaks, Your Narrative or Mine, the Museum in a Web 2.0 World
April 2016, Los Angeles, MW2016, Program Committee, Chair: New Approaches to Storytelling
November 2015, Calgary, Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Performing the Museum in an Age of Digital Reproduction
October 2015, Granada, Digital Heritage 15, Granada, Chair of the Theme "Digital Heritage Projects and Applications"
April, 2015, Harvard, EVA/Harvard, Making Israel Museum Treasures Accessible Online
April 2015, Chicago, MW2015: Program Committee, Chair: Tools & processes for digital practitioners that change the way we work and transform museum culture
March 2015, Nicosia, Cyprus, Eagle 2015 International Event, The Re-use of cultural heritage
February 2015, Kfar Hamakabim, Multiyeda - Israel Center for Libraries Annual Conference, The Israel Museum and digital libraries
September 2014, Paris, EAGLE International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy in the Ancient World, Keynote: Inscribing the Past for the Future
September 2014, Dresden, DCCF: Digital Cultural Content Forum: An international partnership dedicated to the promotion of digital content and services developed by archives, libraries and museums for education, learning and enjoyment.
June 2014, Jerusalem, Fifth annual meeting of the Ex Libris Rosetta Advisory Group, Jerusalem, Keynote: One Click Away - The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls on a screen near you
June 2014, Moscow, International museum festival "Intermuseum 2014", Museums on the Net
May 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel Chamber of Information Systems Analysts Celebrates 20 years, Keynote: The Past Dressed for the Future, a Glimpse into the World of Museums
May 2014, Florence, EVA 2014, On Defining the Virtual Museum: a V-Must Research Project, Download Paper: Susan Hazan (PhD), Sorin Hermon (PhD)
December 2013, Oslo, NODEM 2013 Sweden, Beyond Control, The Collaborative Museum, and its Challenges, The Responsive Museum, Hazan & Hermon, Download paper
November 2013, Cyprus, DIGITALHERITAGE 2013, The International Congress on Digital Heritage, Rethinking the Virtual Museum, Hazan & Hermon, Download paper, Workshop
October 2013, The Hague, Chair: Europeana Task Force, User-generated content in museums & memory institutions
May 2013, Nicosia, Virtual Heritage School on Digital Cultural Heritage, The Cyprus Institute, Digital Libraries - a Museum Perspective
May, 2013, Berlin, XI. Conference Culture and Computer Science, Pergamon Museum
April, 2013, Portugal, ECLAP, 2nd International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, Bringing New Life to Video Narratives for Exploring Cultural Heritage
January 2013, The Hague, Europeana End-User Research Workgroup,
January 2013, Cyprus, V-Must, Working Group meeting
December 2012, Hong Kong, Museums and the Web ASIA 2012, New Ways of Working… with Publications, We want it all and we want it now!
December 2012, Hong Kong, NODEM 2012, Future Culture: [In]tangible Heritage | Design | Cross Media
November 2012, Spain, International Forum on Cultural Infrastructures, See video, II FIEC 2012 - Susan Hazan - O Israel Museum na palma da túa man, Panel
2012 September, Milan, Italy , VSMM2012, 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia
June 2012, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, SPIEF 2012, International Economic Forum, Panel: Digital Us - How the Internet is transforming Modern Culture, See article in St. Petersburg magazine GOROD, See article, Israeli Consulate, St. Petersbug, Download PDF
June 2012, Leuven, Belgium, Europeana Plenary, 2012
Connecting Society through Culture... the power of partnerships, open data and cutting edge technolgy
April 2012, Huffington Post, 30.04.12, How Israel's Museums Are Harnessing Social Media to Share Their Wares, Ruth Eglash
April 2012, San Diego Museums and the Web 2012, The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls: - working on a Google cloud, Chair: Optimizing Engagement, Panel: Professional Forum on Bringing together theory and practice in digital museum communication
February 2012, Rome, Judaica Europeana Final Conference, Presentations: Once out into the ether – tracking content across Web 1.0 and 2.0 Networks
December 2011, Rotterdam, Jury, Digital Heritage Award, 2011, CCPA, Europeana, White Paper User Engagement
October 2011, Salzburg, Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, Download Report
October 2011, Warsaw, The European Cultural Commons conference, Lead: Barrier workshop Measuring online success
September 2011, Hong Kong, City University, Remote lecture, Intelligent Heritage Course
June 2011, Modena, Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia, The Museum in a Web 2.0 world: a tectonic shift in situated knowledge, Download Powerpoint
MAY 2011, Berlin, Digital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF), Download Powerpoint
May 2011, Fermo, Italy, Il capitale culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, The museum in the palm of your hand: presenting the Israel Museum through ICT
April 2011, Rome, A virtual exhibition: A Voyage with the Gods - The Goddess Athena, Athena Meeting, Rome
March 2011, Paris, Europeana Working Group1.1
November 2010, Budapest, Michael Culture Association, Innovative Public Services for Digital Cultural Heritage
September 2010, Hong Kong, Intelligent Heritage Lecture Series at CityU, The Digital Museum: a Practioners Guide Online seminar series, real-time video conference
September 2010, Brussels, European Congress on E-Inclusion 2010, Keynote: Delivering Digital Europe in Public Libraries (ECEI10) Official EU Belgian Presidency Conference, at the Flemish Parliament
August 2010, Jerusalem, The Electronic Museum Renewal Conference for Art Education
מוזיאון בהתחדשות השתלמות ארצית למורי אמנות בעל-יסודי, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
May 2010, Tel Aviv, Under the same roof: Libraries, Museums and Archives, Tel Dan - INFO 2010, Tweeting the library, archive and museum: keeping collections in the loop
April 2010, Denver, Musems and the Web, ATHENA: a Mechanism for Harvesting Europe's museum holdings into Europeana
April 2010, Nicosia, Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus,Nicosia. Science and Technology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean (STACHEM) international conference
January 2010, Haifa, Synthetic Reality: The Science and Applications of Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality, Cultural Institutions Colonize Second Life, IBM Haifa
November 2009, Paestum, Italy, Regional STACHEM Workshop on Infrastructures for Digitisation in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean, Educational, entertaining and experiential: making archaeological collections available online for all.
August 2009, Oslo, Real Museums in Virtual Worlds - Museums Colonise Second Life, Reality versus virtuality, the museum between tradition and transformation, Oslo University, Norway
August 2009, Milan, World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage", Milan, Italy
June 2009, Jerusalem, 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, Herzliya, 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?
May 2009, Tel Aviv, 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
November 2008, International Congress: Relationships between Museums, Friends, and Volunteers The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
October 2008, Cyprus, Musing the Metaverse, 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM).
September 2008, Athens, Musing the MUVE's, The annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums
July 2008, Herzelia, Communication Across Borders, The Asper Institute for New Media Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia (IDC)
July 2008, Jerusalem, 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, Ljubljana, Slovenia Culture Online, Peering Down the Wormhole: Cultural Instiutions Slide Between 2D, Mobile and 3D Platforms
April 2008, Herzliya, Thinking and acting in persistent worlds, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
March 2008, Haifa, Museology Department, University of Haifa
March 2008, Online, Persistent Worlds: Will They Ever Go Away?, The Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference held in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on March 8, 2008.
December 2007, Jerusalem, A Passage from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 - Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own, Mandel Leadership Institute Jerusalem
November 2007, Jerusalem, Staking a Claim - Memory Institutions take on a [Second] Life of their own, EVA/MINERVA 2007
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
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, Collaborative 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?
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?
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 ofCultural 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
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
November 2004, Taiwan, 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.
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, Paper - The Israel Museum: Living together
September 2003, Edinburgh, 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, Manchester, ASA Decennial Conference Anthropology and Science, Manchester Univ.Panel: Exhibition experiments: technologies and cultures. Convenor: Sharon Macdonald, Paper - The Virtual Aura
March 2003, Charlotte, USA, Museums and the Web 2003, , North Carolina, Program Committee, Paper - Edutainment in 3D virtual worlds. The SEE experience, Mini-workshop A day at Qumranengage 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
March 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, Boston, USA, Museums and the Web, Program committee, Chair - Touching the Virtual - Towards Tangible Virtualities
March 2002, Florence, EVA - Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, 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, EVA2001, Paper - The Virtual Aura and the Digital Flâneur, Conference Proceedings, Editor James Hemsley, VASARI UK
March 2001, Seattle, USA, Museums and the Web 2001,Seattle, USA, Program Committee, Plenary Closing Session, The Virtual Aura
February 2000, Leicester, UK, ESRC Research Seminar, Museums and Society, University of Leicester, UK, Paper - Portals of Curiosities,The Museums Online
March 1999, New Orleans, Museums and the Web, 99, 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 1998, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto, Canada, Guest Speaker Education Round Table, Presentation -Interactive Education
September 1998, Santa Monica, USA, Computer Network Conference, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Preservation, 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 1998, Toronto, Canada, Museums and the Web Conference, Chair - "Rich Experiences", Paper -T he Museum Website as a Two Way Communication Vehicle
November 1997, Vienna, OKS, Osterreichischen, Kultur-Service, Vienna, Austria Guest Speaker, The forum, "Von der Kunst Schule ze machen", Report -Interactive Education, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
December 1997, Singapore, Introduction: @rt a Cyberart show by Lin Hsin Hsin,® Caldwell House, Chijmes, Singapore, 1997
March 1997, Los Angeles, Museums and the Web:An International Conference, Workshop -Making Your Site Interactive, Chair - "Museum Applications of the Web Experience"
October 1997, St. Louis, USA Museum Computer Network '97, 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 1997, Paris, ICHIM 97',Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums, Paper -The Fourth Wall - The Virtual in the Museum
July 1997, Jerusalem, The Dead Sea Scrolls- Fifty Years after Their Discovery, Major Issues and New Approaches, Chair - Computer-Assisted Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls
November 1996, Ottowa, Museum Computer Network, MCN '96/CHIN '96, Reaching Museum Audiences Using New Technology,Paper -The Virtual Art Experience - Beyond the Museum Walls: Children of the World Draw Jerusalem
September 1996, 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 1996, 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 1995, San Diego, USA, ICHIM 95' - MCN9, USA, Hands on Hypermedia & Interactivity in Museum, Paper - Museums and Art on the Internet
May 1995, Tel Aviv, Info 95', Israel, Internet Applications, Paper -"Art and Museums on the Internet"