Category: Events

Join us for the opening of the exhibition Botanic Futures: Towards a New Encounter with Plants on 24 July 2025 at 6 PM at the Mediterranean House, Botanic Gardens Bonn. The exhibition is part of the research-based teaching project Botanic Futures at the Global Heritage Lab, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter and Joanne Rodriguez, in cooperation with Dr. Cornelia Löhne, Botanical Gardens, and artist Parisa Karimi.

With Prof. Dr. Tom Bratrud, University of Bergen, Dr. Sultan Doughan, Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr. Veronica Ferreri, Ca’ Foscari University; Moderator: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn, Join us at the Global Heritage Lab and online.

The Working Group on Decolonisation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) supports museums in proactively addressing cultural rights, democracy, and the role of museums in colonisation. Jun.-Prof. Julia Binter, Global Heritage Lab, joined their meeting at inherit, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, to talk about the collaborative research, exhibition and restitution project ‘Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures’.

Our Visual Anthropology Fellow Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen will be contributing to the upcoming European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) Third Biennial Conference on June 11–13, themed Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen will be presenting his research paper titled “Against the Tyranny of Text: Multimodal Unwriting of Ethnographic Museums” at the 17th International SIEF Congress, taking place from June 3–6, 2025, at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Join us for the launch of Prof. Dr. Dan Hick’s book ‘Every Monument Will Fall’ on Friday, 23 May 2025, at 4pm at the Global Heritage Lab. Prof. Hick’s will share his thoughts on monumentality, endurance, and public memory with a talk on ‘Crumbling is not an Instant’s Act’. He is joined by discussants Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter.

What are possible futures of collections? Golda Ha-Eiros, National Museum of Namibia, and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, Global Heritage Lab, discussed this question with regard to their collaborative research, exhibition and restitution project “Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures” at the conference “The Future of Collections”, organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

We are pleased to invite you to the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. During this week, different institutes of the University of Bonn invite scholars to open up conversations and critical reflections on various approaches to heritage in a global context. The proposed agenda includes discussions on nature-culture and sustainability, indigenous heritage and cultural landscapes in the Americas and Africa, as well as on the coloniality of statues and monuments. 

Join us as we journey through the past while looking towards alternative and sustainable futures together. We look forward to welcoming you for an inspiring Heritage Week!

Opening on 15 May 2025, “Dressing Resistance. Fashion and the Heritage of Mission” explores how Christian missionisation has influenced fashion in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean – and how fashion designers and artists deal with this legacy today. The exhibition includes works by Tuli Mekondjo, Cheryl McIntosh, Amanda McIntyre, Loo Nascimento, and many more. Visitors are invited to take part in hands-on activities such as doll-making and weaving.

On April 27th, 2025, 4:00-6:00pm, there will be a workshop and film screening as part of the exhibition “Global Entanglements in the Collections of the University of Bonn”, Global Heritage Lab @ P26. FOR THE LAND (POR LA TIERRA) Hosted By Raquel Cortés Mora & Hanna Bölck, Followed by a discussion with Postdoctoral Researcher Alejandro Mora Motta