Interviews

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Emmanuel KasarhérouBernard Muller
08/02/21
The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
A place to forge new connections to the objects
Interview[1] with Emmanuel Kasarhérou. “When it comes to creating exhibitions, a museum constructs certain approaches, it looks at areas, some of which don’t lead anywhere, it explores them nonetheless. That’s the role of the institution, so let’s explore now”. The new director of the Quai Branly Museum Jacque Chirac, discusses his research design with Bernard […]
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Nelson Adebo AbitiNaomi Salbert
31/03/20
Wie sieht die Zukunft für ethnografische Museen aus?
Ein Interview mit Nelson Adebo Abiti
Das nachstehende Interview mit Abiti Adebo Nelson ist auf der Konferenz „Museums in Motion: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters“ in Köln im Juli 2019 entstanden. Dort kamen Künstler*innen, Kurator*innen, Expert*innen, junge Forscher*innen, Stipendiat*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen aus der ganzen Welt zusammen, um über die Notwendigkeit der Dekolonialisierung von Museen zu sprechen und neue Formen der Kooperation zu […]
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Matthias De GroofFrancis MampuyaKristin Rogghe
10/02/20
Tervuren Invisible
Tervuren invisible (2007) is a videowork based on a critical interview with the Congolese painter Francis Mampuya. This interview was done in 2007 in Belgium, while Mampuya was there for a solo-exhibition in the framework of the Belgo-Congolese cultural project Yambi. This video is part of “ôtre k’ ôtre”, a video-installation by Kristin Rogghe & […]
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20/12/19
Voices from the Conference „Museum Collections in Motion, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters“, Cologne, July 2019
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We are pleased to present 15 film interviews from the conference „Museum Collections in Motion“, co-organized by the boasblogs and held in July 2019 at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne with more than 300 participants.  
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Helen Verran
20/12/19
To set museum visitors thinking
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Helen Verran: Historian and philosopher of science, Charles Darwin University, Australia’s Northern Territory Helen Verran is a historian and philosopher of science at the Charles Darwin University in Australia’s Northern Territory where she holds the position of University Professorial Fellow in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Societies. Before taking up that position […]
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Felwine Sarr
20/12/19
For a new relational ethics
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Felwine Sarr: Economist, scholar & writer, University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, Senegal Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese scholar and writer born in 1972 in Niodior, in the Saloum Islands. He attends high school in Senegal before studying Economics at the University of Orleans where he obtains a doctorate in Economics in 2006. Full professor […]
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Mary Mbewe
20/12/19
Using collections in imaginative ways to speak to current problems
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Mary Mbewe: Doctoral student, University of Westen Cape / Historian, Mulungushi University, Zambia Mary Mbewe is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, where she also obtained her Masters in Museum and Heritage Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies under the African […]
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Ciraj Rassool
20/12/19
Create a new ethical footing and relate to historical injustices
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Ciraj Rassool: Historian, University of Western Cape, Cape Town Since 2015: Fellowship, Morphomata Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Cologne Since 2009: Professor of History at the University of Western Cape 2005 -2008: Associated Professor; History, University of Western Cape 1999 -2004: Senior Lecturer, History, University of Western Cape 1989 -1998: […]
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Bebero Lehmann
20/12/19
Giving back what is not meant to be here
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Bebero Lehmann: Historian, Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany, Cologne Bebero Lehmann is a historian based at the Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany, Cologne (DOMiD e.V.). She studied history and German language and literature in Darmstadt, Paris and Cologne. Since 2017 she offers (post-)colonial city tours through Cologne. In […]
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Richard Tsogang Fossi
20/12/19
We can correct what was done wrong in the past
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Richard Tsogang Fossi: Curatorial research fellow at MARKK-Hamburg (former Ethnological Museum) Richard TSOGANG FOSSI is a PhD. Holder in the field of Intercultural German and Memory Studies. He received training as DaF-Didaktiker for High Schools level and is also busy as part-time lecturer at the University of Dschang in Cameroon. His fields of research […]
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