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The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) networks of NAoHH (Anthropology of History and Heritage) and FAN (Future Anthropologies Network) are inviting contributions to a two-day workshop in collaboration with the Global Heritage Lab at the University of Bonn. The event will take place on July 23 and 24, 2025, in Bonn. This collaborative workshop […]

Bonn, 27 January 2025. As part of the project Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures (CCP, ECF), the project partner institutions in Namibia and Germany are developing a publication. The CCP, ECF project is, to date, the largest collaborative research, exhibition and restitution project in which cultural belongings have been returned from Germany to Namibia. […]

Berlin, 13 February 2025 – Our Argelander-Professor for Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, Jun.-Prof. Dr Julia Binter, was invited to present her recently launched book chapter Towards Democratising the Formation of Knowledge: Researching Sensitive Collections from Namibia Collectively (open access) at the Humboldt Forum, in Berlin, together with Researchers and curators from the Stiftung Preußischer […]

At the end of January 2025, our guest researcher Dr. Tobias Skowronek published a provocation in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents as part of his ongoing research about the German metals used in the fabrication of the Benin Bronzes.

Bonn, January 2025 – Our post-doctoral researcher, Alejandro Mora motta, was invited to present his recently launched book Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Univerity of Bonn. At the Colloquium of the Cultural and Political Change (CPC) ZEF Group, he will explore the […]

The GHL seminar series continues this Thursday from 4 to 6 pm in our GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor. As a space for experimentation and dialogue, the series seeks to critically explore multiple pasts and presents to envision alternative futures. It aims to bring scholars and practitioners from across the globe together […]

Julia Binter, Argelander Professor for Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, and Sascha Sistenich, Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology, are organising the lecture series Engaged Anthropology – Reimagining Social Transformation in Collaborative Anthropological Research in the winter term 2024/25. Join us at the Global Heritage Lab at P26 or online. In the rapidly […]

Bottrop, 5 December 2024 – Our doctoral research fellow, Joanne Rodriguez, was invited to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop to give a lecture as part of the exhibition Sheila Hicks (2 October 2024 – 23 February 2025). Her talk focused on onto-epistemologies connected to the hands and textiles in the Andean region, exploring […]

Nürnberg, 16 November 2024 – Our Doctoral Research Fellow Eleonora Grammatikou presented her PhD project, “Heritage Revisited: Cultural Identity and the Representation of People of Color – A Study of the Tucher Family Coat of Arms”, at a meeting organized by the Tucher Cultural Foundation. Pursuing her doctorate at the University of Bonn, with support […]

Our Research Manager Aline R. Barbosa Pereira contributed to the roundtable on Resource Extractivism and Environmental (In)Justice organised by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) in cooperation with the Volkshochschule in Bonn (VHS). Three other experts with different disciplinary backgrounds joined the discussion moderated by Cécile Jeblawei (BCDSS): Prof. Dr. Ulbe Bosma […]