Museum Collections in Motion

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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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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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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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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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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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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Nicholas Thomas

20/12/19

The question is really that of local agency

Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘

Nicholas Thomas: Writer, museum director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Nicholas Thomas has written widely on art and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific, as well as on museum histories and futures. His books include The Return of Curiosity: what museums are good for in the twenty-first century (2016). Director of the Museum of […]

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20/12/19

We need a ‘Museum Truth Repatration and Restitutions Commission’

Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘

Wandile Kasibe: Sociologist, museologist, Chevening scholar and public programmes coordinator at Iziko Museums of South Africa (but comments in his personal capacity) Wandile Kasibe is a UCT PhD Candidate in Sociology, his research focuses on “Museums and the Construction of Race Ideologies”. As a student, Kasibe was involved in the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), […]

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20/12/19

What we really need is a collaboration with the African diaspora here

Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘

Rokia Bamba: sound designer and DJ, Brussels Since she picked up her headphones again, Rokia Bamba’s star is rising quickly in Brussels and Paris. She is not DJ-ing in just any circuit, but picks out the activist circles of Globalicious, La Colonie, Massimadi – where she curates the whole DJ-programming – and the New […]

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