Conference in Paderborn: Opening Spaces – Mediating Missionary Collections through Artistic Methods (12-14.01.26)

Loo Nascimento with a balangandã from her historical collection. ©Yohannes Mekonnen and Rodrigo Xavier, 2025.

What is the epistemological potential of bringing artists and scholars together to research fashion and its legacies of Christian mission?

Jun.-Prof. Julia Binter discusses this question with regard to the project “Interwoven Dependencies. Redressing Fashion and the Heritage of Mission” at the conference “Räume öffnen. Missionssammlungen vermitteln mit künstlerischen Methoden” of the Katholische Hochschule in Paderborn, 12-14 January 2026.

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