This conference seeks to foster critical and comparative conversations about the role of restitution within contemporary museology, particularly as it exists on an international level. It aims to explore the legal, cultural, diplomatic, financial, and historical factors that contribute to and prohibit progress, while providing a forum to discuss strategies that have shown promise for advancing reparative efforts and strengthening museums as shared spaces of practice.
Proposals are welcome from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including (but not limited to) Museum Studies, Indigenous Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Art History, Anthropology, History, Legal Studies, American Studies, Global and International Studies, Religious Studies, Public Humanities, Memory Studies, Archaeology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geology, Information and Library Science, and Heritage Studies.
Deadline submissions 28 September 2026
Conference 29 – 30 October 2026
