Dear list members
Please see below the details about the forthcoming conference:
Museum Collections in Motion
Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
July 15-17, 2019
The growing public awareness of colonial violence and historical injustice has put ethnographic collections into the spotlight of social and political debates. Museums are increasingly confronted with the challenge to decolonize their exhibition practices and examine their collection history for looted art, colonial entanglements, and systematic exclusions. The recent initiative of French President Macron to explore the modalities for restituting African objects from French collections has opened a new chapter in the debate on restitution and repatriation. While its actual implementation remains to be seen, the report by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy has set a world-wide agenda for decolonizing museum collections and academic research in the coming years.
In order to envision alternative futures for these collections and new forms of co-operation, this conference brings together activists, curators, experts, young researchers and scholars from around the world. Over three days we will re-visit museum collections and the debates and practices that have evolved around them, discuss ongoing work in the longue durée of colonial and postcolonial encounters and bring views from the Global North and South into intensive dialogue.
A cooperation of:
University of Cologne, Bremen University, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne
and
boasblogs
Convenors:
Anna Brus, Larissa Förster, Michi Knecht, Ulrike Lindner, Nanette Snoep, Martin Zillinger
Contact and registration
Please register with Leonie van Dreuten, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Registration deadline: July 5, 2019
https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/32059.html <https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/32059.html>
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Anna Krämer
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft
Institut für Ethnologie
Universität zu Köln
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D - 50923 Köln
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
ethnologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de
facebook.com/ethnologie.koeln
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