Bernadette Biedermann (University of Graz): Decolonizing Austrian museum collections? – On the history of Austrian museum collections from the perspective of museology
Although Austria was never colonial, the Habsburg empire was of [...]
Rita Gaspar & Juliana Alves (University of Porto): Words matter. Can database reframing enable new perspectives?
Abstract: The Natural History and Science Museum of the University [...]
Jonatan Kurzwelly (University of Göttingen): Calcified Identities: Essentialism and identity politics in restitutions of human remains
Abstract: Essentialist assumptions about human beings lay at the core [...]
Elise Pape & Aggée Lomo (University of Strasburg): Human remains from former German colonies at the University of Strasbourg – crossed Franco-German perspectives
Abstract: Over the past years, in Strasbourg, intense debates have [...]
Massimo Zaccaria (University of Pavia): Restitution and Book History in Africa. A New Approach Toward the Recovery of Africa’s Printed Past
Somehow surprisingly, the debate on the restitution of cultural objects [...]
Yann LeGall (Technical University of Berlin): “White hunters” and their spoils of war: Retracing and reclaiming Ghanaian and Togolese artefacts and ancestors in German museums
Abstract: German-Togo, a German colonial territory which encompassed today’s Togo [...]
Diantha Vliet & Claire McGinn (Utrecht University): Broken Heritage Machines: affect and proximity to power in the decolonization of racialised European musical automata collections
Musical automata - luxurious nineteenth-century consumer objects - sometimes mirrored [...]
Emily Hansell Clark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Decolonizing Audiovisual Heritage
Abstract: In the context of debates on restitution and reckoning [...]
Priscilla Manfren & Marta Nezzo (University of Padova): Decolonization: the power of the painted image
Abstract: Iconographies and precise references to masterpieces of European art [...]
Guido Fackler (University of Würzburg): Reflections from a museological perspective
Abstract: Museums and collections, as “institutions of rationalism” (Udo Gößwald), [...]