Category: Events

The Global Heritage Lab congratulates Dr. Kelechi Uguwanyi on his new position at the University of Glasgow.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter is discussing this sensitive question during the panel “Critical Fabulation” at the conference “geschichten. Die Produktion historischen Wissens”, hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, on 28 March 2025.

Joanne Rodriguez and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter discussed their research on botanic gardens at the conference „Diffracting the Critical – STS HuB 2025” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. They joined the invigorating discussion of the panel “Diffracting urban greening: Re-Thinking species collectives beyond ‘nature’, ‘landscape’, ‘ecology’, and ‘infrastructure’.

Under the title “PLURIVERSUM – Voices from Around the World – Discourses for a Just Future,” a unique multimedia program will be presented, creating space for dialogue on global justice, perspectives on social transformation, environmental policy, and the rights of marginalized communities.

How has Christian missionization shaped fashion in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean? How do scholars, artists, and designers engage with this legacy today? Join us for the three public events of the international transdisciplinary conference “Interwoven Dependencies. Redressing Fashion and the Heritage of Mission” on 2, 3 and 4 April – onsite at the Global Heritage Lab or online.

Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, our postdoctoral research fellow, is speaking at the Envisioning Decolonial Futures through Archaeology conference collaboratively organised by the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge on 22-26 October 2024. He will speak on “Decolonising decolonisation: moving from discourse to practice, and to pluriversal dialogue in managing […]

Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, our postdoctoral research fellow, will contribute to the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre Seminar Series of the University of York on 22 October 2024 with the talk Ọfϙ in the age of decolonisation and restitution: interrogating Igbo objects of sovereignty and authority in the collections of the MAA, Cambridge. In […]

Can missionary collections become laboratories for intercultural and interreligious dialogue?
An international, transdisciplinary conference seeks to answer this question by bringing together experts from Religious Studies, Catholic Theology, Protestant Theology, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Global History, Art History, History of Science, Regional Studies of Africa, Oceania, South East Asia and South America as well as Critical Museum and Heritage studies.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter will be giving a lecture on the „Colonial Entanglements of Museums” at Naturmuseum Dortmund, 11 July, 7 pm

Our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, is giving a presentation entitled “Dissonant Heritage and Ontological Ambivalence: Colonial and Missionary Encounters with Igbo Cosmology – the Case of ‘Twin Killing’ in Nigeria” at CY Cergy Paris Université on 1 July