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Camouflage. Disguise as an Act of Resistance. Artist Talk with Cheryl McIntosh (28.11.2025)

©Julia Binter, 2025

Artist Talk with Cheryl McIntosh

At the center of this Artistic Talk is the portrait of “Nanny – Queen of the Maroons”. According to historical sources, Nanny was born in present-day Ghana, enslaved, and forcibly taken to Jamaica, where she became a leader of the Maroons—communities of formerly enslaved people who had liberated themselves. This participatory talk uses the idea of camouflage as a point of departure to explore artistic strategies for engaging with the past, considering dress as a form of resistance, and giving voice to marginalized people.

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Film Screening – Cinéclub X Bonner Filmfair: Dahomey (19.11.2025)

©Les Films du Bal - Fanta Sy

Mati Diop’s award-winning documentary Dahomey explores the return of 26 royal artworks from the former Kingdom of Dahomey to their country of origin—present-day Benin. Looted during the colonial era and taken to France, these objects become the center of a film that reflects on self-determination, restitution, and the reimagining of cultural spaces. Awarded the Golden […]

Call for Papers: Time is of the essence: Temporal (in)justice, extractivisms, and dispossessions in the “green transition”

©Pollen

We are happy to invite you to submit your paper proposal to our Panel P102 at the 2026 Conference of the Political Ecology Network (Pollen): ‘Pollen2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’, which will take place in June 2026, Barcelona.

Presentation: Is There a Future Beyond Extractivism? Environmental Justice in Between the Conflictual Temporalities of Hyper-Extractivism and Post-Extractivism.

© Futures of Sustainability, Hamburg

“Is There a Future Beyond Extractivism? Environmental Justice in Between the Conflictual Temporalities of Hyper-Extractivism and Post-Extractivism”
Presentation by Alejandro Mora Motta at the ‘Young Scholars’ Conference: Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice, 8–10 October 2025, Hamburg’

Advancing Provenance Research: Annual Meeting of the Working Group Colonial Provenances at the Global Heritage Lab

Nehoa Hilma Kautondokwa, Cynthia Schimming and Julia Binter at the depot of the Ethnologischen Museum Berlin. Filmstill from Tracing Namibian-German Collaborations, a film by Moritz Fehr © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2020.

We are delighted to host this year’s meeting of the AG Koloniale Provenienzen (Working Group Colonial Provenances) at the Global Heritage Lab. The group addresses topics such as the development of long-term strategies for collection management, approaches to prioritizing individual holdings and making research findings accessible, as well as proposals for (transnational) networking and the institutionalization of provenance research at museums and universities.