Category: Events

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

Our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, participated in and presented his work in progress at the 5th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, which was held at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, 5-8 June 2024.

Under the motto “Science for everyone to participate in!”, the University of Bonn cordially invites you for the second time to the Science Festivalon Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 12:00 AM to 6:00 PMon the Hofgartenwiese, Bonn. With many exciting activities, including the TRAllye – a “Science rallye” for the whole family – the Transdisciplinary […]

Film screening and discussion with Joel Haikali, filmmaker, Namibia 5 June 2024, 10-12 AM Oxfordstr. 15 – Room 1.002 Joel Haikali is one of the most renowned filmmakers in Namibia. His recent project is documenting the process of connecting with cultural belongings which returned from Berlin to Namibia in 2022. The film is part of the […]