The Expertise Center for Restitution (ECR) of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Resistance Museum Amsterdam present Robbery Art Ontrafeld, a lecture series that focuses on the less exposed aspects of loot art and restitution.
Historians associated with the NIOD present recent research and surprising insights and enter into dialogue with the public, led by moderator Yuki Kho.
Mirjam Shatanawi gives an overview of Islamic collections in the Netherlands, focusing on their presence in museums, libraries, and archives. It provides a critical overview of how these collections have been shaped, preserved, and interpreted, with particular attention to the enduring influence of colonial perspectives on Indonesian Islamic traditions. Examples will be given of objects from Java, Sumatra and South Sulawesi.
Dan Hicks talks at the Society of Antiquaries of London (Burlington House, courtyard of the Royal Academy) about the return of ancestral human remains through the case of the Worcester College skull cup.
J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi about the decolonial analytical tool of coloniality of power, knowledge and being is utilised to examine the injustices and power imbalance in heritagisation within and outside museum space, in and outside Nigeria/Africa. It interrogates how decolonial engagements could begin to recognise other realities and ways of knowing and doing heritage beyond the asymmetric universality.
Between 1896-1916 today's Burundi was a German colony as part of what was known as ‘German East Africa’. Not only in colonial historiography, but also in provenance research, Burundi has been largely underrepresented and, similar to Rwanda, stands ‘in the shadow’ of the reappraisal of the material cultural heritage of present-day Tanzania.
Lecture by Jonatan Kurzwelly: From Racialisation to Reconciliation and Back: Ethical and conceptual dilemmas in the post-/de-colonial handling of human skeletal remains
[ in German ] Provenance research is becoming increasingly digital: be it in the cataloguing of source material, in the use of the numerous existing databases for research or in the visual analysis of research data.
Exactly 130 years ago, the World Exhibition took place in Antwerp. For that occasion, 144 Congolese were exhibited at the KMSKA. Seven Congolese died. The AfricaMuseum, which has a similar colonial history in Tervuren, organizes an online MuseumTalk about the memory and commemoration of this tragedy. The speakers are a researcher, an activist and an artist.
