Collections as Relations: Neue Perspektiven

In the organizer's words:

Scholars and curators from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Bonn will present new approaches to researching relational connections between ethnographic and global art collections from different regions of the world.

The focus will be on debates about belonging, cultural heritage and knowledge infrastructures. The event, which will be moderated by Barbara Göbel (co-editor, Director of the Ibero-American Institute, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), aims to promote an exchange on the future of collections and collecting institutions.

Ibero-American Institute in cooperation with:

Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin

Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

PROCEDURE

18.15 - Introduction

Hansjörg Dilger (co-editor, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin)

18.30 - Curating and shaping relationships between lifeworlds: A practice-oriented methodology for museum collaboration with indigenous communities from Amazonia

Andrea Scholz (Curator for Transcultural Cooperation, Ethnological Museum, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)

Cultural heritage from colonial contexts as contested heritage: The case of Cameroon and Germany

Richard Tsogang Fossi (Postdoctoral Fellow, DFG project "Reverse Collections' Stories. Mapping Art and Culture from Cameroon in German Museums", Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies, Technische Universität Berlin)

On the democratization of knowledge formation: The collective exploration of sensitive collections from Namibia

Julia Binter (Argelander Professor for Critical Museum and Heritage Studies/ Research Professor in the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Past Worlds - Contemporary Questions. Cultures in Time and Space", University of Bonn)

19.00 - Comments

Ferdinand de Jong (Visiting Professor for Art and Visual Cultures of Africa, Institute of Art History, Free University of Berlin)

Yorleny Cardozo Peña (Visiting Fellow, Collaborative Museum, Ethnological Museum, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)

19.20 - Questions and discussion

Publication: Collections as Relations. Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures (Routledge, 2025)

Further information:

- free of charge

- Admission starts at 17:45

- Language: English

- Location: Klangwerkstatt

- Virtual participation is possible via Webex.