CONF: The Benin Bronzes. Globalising the Colonial Looting of Art (Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 25-26 Oct 2022)
To conclude the research project of the same name, the conference, ‘The Benin Bronzes. Globalising the Colonial Looting of Art‘ will take place on 25/26 October 2022 in the lecture hall of the…
CFP: Stedelijk Studies, Issue 12: Diaspora and Collections
The “Diaspora” has come to describe mass movements of displaced peoples, or the scattering of a people away from their geographical “origin”. Yet diasporic movements are not sequestered within the flow of people:…
CFP: Thinking About the Archive & Provenance Research (DCNtR Blog)
In the debate about the colonial past of ethnological museums in Western Europe, provenance research has emerged in recent years as the main method for researching colonial legacies and addressing museums’ need for decolonisation….
ANN: Erased Memories: Italian colonialism and its material legacies; Lecture (Istituto Svizzero, Rome / online; 28 Jan 2022, 18:00 CET; in Italian)
Memorie cancellate: il colonialismo italiano e le sue eredità materiali Sebbene gli studiosi abbiano a lungo denunciato il silenzio che ha caratterizzato lo studio del passato coloniale dell’Italia, il revisionismo storico fatica a…
CFP: Post-Colonial Heritage in the Present (Rome, 12-13 Oct 2022)
Coming to terms with the long-lasting impact of colonialism has recently been the focus of attention of a number of cultural institutions transnationally. From the 90s onward scholars have noted multiple ways to…
CONF: The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts (German Lost Art Foundation / online, 17-19 Nov 2021)
This year’s online conference of the German Lost Art Foundation (kulturgutverluste.de) – organized in cooperation with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Research Center for Material Culture of the National Museum of World…
CONF: Decolonizing Heritage – The Return of Cultural Objects to Africa : An International Law Perspective (Centre universitaire du droit de l’art, Univ. of Geneva; 23-24 Sept 2021)
Depuis la déclaration faite à Ouagadougou en 2017 par le Président Emmanuel Macron, pour qui les biens culturels doivent être restitués aux Etats africains victimes de la colonisation, les musées européens ont dû réévaluer…
CFP: The Restitution of Looted Artefacts since 1945: Denazification and Decolonization in Entangled Perspective (German Historical Institute in Rome, 16-18 May 2022)
Over the past decades, the restitution of cultural property has come to the forefront of both public and academic debates. Besides the well-established provenance research into Jewish-owned cultural property, postcolonial restitution has increasingly…
JOB: PhD Position, Contemporary Artistic Practices Reflecting on Colonial Heritage (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 01 Sep 2021)
This four-year PhD student position is based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s (VU) Faculty of Humanities (Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity), within the framework of the NWA funded project “Pressing…