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Planetary Reading Group

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Lénia Marques (Rotterdam) & Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia (Aveiro)

Transforming Places Through Street Art: Bordalo II and the City

Work by Bordalo II In recent years, street art has gained increased attention in academia, which reflects the growth and expansion of different forms of street …

Esper Postma (Berlin/Deventer)

GAGAPALIZI: A New Museum for Florence

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December 16

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Sasha Huber (Helsinki)

“Demounting Louis Agassiz” Artistic Renegotiation of Archive, Memory & Place

Rentyhorn intervention © Sasha Huber In her presentation, Sasha Huber will speak about her artistic research and engagement within the cultural-activist …

Sasha Shestakova (Bochum)

Decolonizing Soviet Art History

Pankov Konstantin, Waves, 1938, Solontsev Museum Complex, Tyumen, Russia On the 64th day of the escalation of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the Russian …

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December 14

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Aziza Chaouni (Fez/Toronto)

Sidi Harazem: Co-Designing Heritage Preservation in a Modern Oasis

Cristiana Strava (Amsterdam)

At Home with Colonial Materialities: Snapshots of Heritage-Making and Unmaking on Casablanca’s Margins

Nid d'Abeille experimental, colonial-era worker housing, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca, 1952 Hay Mohammadi is a mythicized yet maligned neighbourhood on the …

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December 1

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Kateryna Kublytska (Kharkiv/London)

Destruction of Immovable Cultural Heritage During the War of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine

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November 29

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2 years ago July 506:00 pm CET

Ece Canlı (Porto)

Beneath the Thick Skin, Behind the Brick Wall

Analogy between the body and building or “body-as-house” has long prevailed in mainstream architecture, comparing skins to walls, veins to conduits, windpipes …

Robert Glas (Rotterdam)

On the film-installation '1986 Or A Sphinx's Interior'

Film still '1986 Or A Sphinx's Interior' © Robert Glas In 1986, Norwegian prison abolitionist Thomas Mathiesen said: ‘There is a clear and strong …

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July 5

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Łukasz Stanek (Manchester)

Socialist Worldmaking

International Trade Fair, Accra, Africa Pavilion and Pavilion A, aerial view, 1967. GNCC, Vic Adegbite (chief architect), Jacek Chyrosz, Stanisław Rymaszewski …

Dawit Benti (Addis Ababa)

Challenges of Urban Heritage Conservation during State-Led Gentrification of Addis Ababa's City Centre

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June 21

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Taputukura Raea (Wellington) & Digital Pasifik

Re-Claiming Pacific History - Making Pacific Cultural Heritage Visible and Accessible

Digital Pasifik team during digitalpasifik live – Showing Cook Islands collections from the National Library of New Zealand via Facebook live © Digital Pasifik …

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June 7

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Laura Ammann (Berlin)

The Appeal of the Colonial Baroque to the Brazilian Modernists

Tarsila do Amaral - Vista de Ouro Preto 1924 © Laura Ammann The Baroque of Minas Gerais, in colonial Brazil, flourished in the 18th century and constitutes a …

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May 24

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Paul Basu (Bonn/London) & Ozioma Onuzulike (Nsukka) & Ikenna Onwuegbuna (Nsukka)

[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times

Northcote Thomas Collections © Re-Entanglements Over the past few years the Museum Affordances / [Re:]Entanglements project has been re-engaging with colonial …

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May 10

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2 years ago April 29 - April 3006:00 pm CET

Between Zones of Conflict and the Realm of Dreams: Planetary Perspectives on Film and Filmmaking

Workshop I

Mykola Ridnyi (Kyiv)

Circle of War: Artistic and Historical Narrations on the Frontlines of Ukraine Session 1: April 29, 6 pm CET Saber, Deer and Spinning Wheel. Exhibition in the …

Mariana Martínez-Bonilla (Mexico-City)

Ghostly Times Violence, Memory and Resistance in the Works of Bruno Varela Session 1: April 29, 6 pm CET In the last week of September 2014, 43 rural students …

Yashaswini Raghunandan (Bangalore)

Eclipse Entanglements Session 2: April 30, 11 am CET © Yashaswini Raghunandan In 2016, filmmaker Yashaswini Raghunandan, visited a village in Murshidabad which …

Chihab El Khachab (Oxford)

Materialist Approaches to Cinematic Creation: A View from Egypt Session 2: April 30, 11 am CET © Chihab El Khachab Fiction cinema can seem like a mesmerizing …

Christian Thiam (Dakar)

AFRICAN RHYTHM FOR AFRICAN FILM: Transposition of the Concept of "Asymmetrical Parallelism" into Film Language Session 3: April 30, 2pm CET Mamiwatta © …

Roundtable: Fide Dayo (Rome) & Norma Gregory (Nottingham)

African Cinema Session 3: April 30, 2pm CET “African Cinema” is the theme of the African Diaspora Cinema Festival that draws on the principle that being …

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April 29 - April 30

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Alyssa K. Barry (Dakar)

Navigating the Digital Spaces

Voyaging (Edification Series) © Alun Be As the COVID-19 pandemic recently showed us, our world today can no longer survive without digital technology. If the …

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April 12

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Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala (Windhoek) & Tuuda Haitula (Windhoek) & Museums Association of Namibia

Museum Development as a Tool for Strengthening Cultural Rights – A Case Study

©Museums Association of Namibia Between 2017 and 2021, the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) worked in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts …

Njabulo Chipangura (Manchester)

Community Museums in Zimbabwe as an Alternative Form of Representing Living Cultures

In this paper Njabulo Chipangura will present the Marange Community Museum as an alternative form of cultural display that emerged as a result of community …

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March 29

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Annalisa Bolin (Kalmar) and David Nkusi (Kigali)

Decolonizing Heritage Management in Rwanda: Community Engagement and Homegrown Solutions

What does it mean to decolonize heritage? In addition to rethinking narratives presented in heritage, such an effort also includes changing management …

Chantal Umuhoza (Kigali)

Decolonizing Conservation Practices in Rwanda Museums

In 2020, Rwanda museums started a 10-year project of Decolonising Museums, in collaboration with Royal Museum for Central Africa. The Ethnographic Museum is …

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March 15

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Alessandra Ferrini (London)

Unruly Connections

Hiba Shalabi (Tripoli) with translation by Malak Altaeb (Tripoli/Paris)

#SaveTheOldCityOfTripoli

The campaign #SavetheOldCityofTripoly aims at the restoration of the Old City of Tripoli and at the preservation of Libyan cultural heritage. This talk will …

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February 28

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Banji Chona (Rome)

Ngoma zya Budima: Exploring Grief and Death, Celebrating Life and Love, Batonga Drum Story

Ngoma zya Budima is a research project by Banji Chona that swells with the gravity as well as the ethereality of mourning and remembrance. A displacement from …

Victoria Phiri (Lusaka), Samba Yonga (Lusaka) & Mulenga Kapwepwe (Lusaka) & the Women’s History Museum Zambia

Decolonization of Cultural Objects in the Process of Restitution and Repatriation. The Case of Zambian Cultural Objects in Swedish Museums

This paper is based on a digital restitution project in the Gwembe Valley of Southern Province of Zambia, conducted by the Women’s History Museum Zambia (WHMZ) …

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