Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter and Yohannes Mekonnen, Global Heritage Lab’s Visual Anthropology Fellow, have joined the selection committee of the 18th German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF), co-curating this year’s program. Among this year’s themes are heritage and decolonial methods, alongside films by directors from Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. These strands […]
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Conference in Paderborn: Opening Spaces – Mediating Missionary Collections through Artistic Methods (12-14.01.26)
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 […]
Lecture and film by Behnaz Mirzai on African Slavery in Iran (11.12.25, 4-6pm)
The implicated researcher: Shifting positionalities in collaborative research and restitution projects How did the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms reshape slavery across the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Middle East?This talk by Behnaz Mirzai, Professor of Middle Eastern History at Brock University, examines the shared origins of Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire—neighboring […]
The Implicated Researcher: A Talk by Julia Binter at the ifeas in Mainz (02.12.25)
The implicated researcher: Shifting positionalities in collaborative research and restitution projects On 2 December 2025, Jun-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter will give a talk titled “The implicated researcher: Shifting positionalities in collaborative research and restitution projects.”Taking the collaborative research, exhibition and restitution project ‘Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures’ on the collections from Namibia at the […]
Call for Papers: Time is of the essence: Temporal (in)justice, extractivisms, and dispossessions in the “green transition”
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.
“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’
Film and the Unmaking of Dependencies
Film screening and public round table with Dr. Joseph S. Jean, Yohannes Mekonnen, Dr. Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter
Catch Our Colleagues at DGSKA 2025 in Cologne!
How are needles, thread and textiles related to resistance?
In this film screening, which will be followed by an open space for dialogue, we will explore how textile crafts can be used as a form of political resistance.
Conference on “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures” (18-19 September)
Conference on “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures” (18-19 September)
Gespräch über Religion, Kleidung und Identität
Bonn, 03.08.2025. Argelander Professorin für kritische Museums- und Heritage-Studien an der Universität Bonn, Julia Binter, spricht als Gast in der Sonntagssendung „Lebenswelten“