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 […]
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Happening this winter semester: Engaged Anthropology-Reimagining Social Transformation in Collaborative Anthropological Research
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 […]
Lecture by Joanne Rodriguez at the Quadrat Museum in Bottrop
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 […]
Eleonora Grammatikou presented her PhD project at a meeting organized by the Tucher Cultural Foundation
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 […]
Bonn, 05 November 2024. Aline R. Barbosa Pereira discussed mining for the energy transition at the VHS – Bonn
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 of the International […]
Start of the GHL Seminar Series on October 31
The GHL seminar series starts next 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 […]
Bonn, 23 October 2024. The Global Heritage Lab opens its doors to the public.
The Global Heritage Lab opens its new exhibition space in P26 with the student-led exhibition ‘Global Entanglements in the Collections of the University of Bonn’. Visit us on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m. Photos by Julia Binter, 2024
Dr. Alejandro Mora Motta’s recently published book: “Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance”
In 2024 our postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Alejandro Mora Motta published his book on Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance with Routledge. Besides uncovering part of Chile’s colonial past and its enduring consequences for the Mapuche-Williche and peasant communites, the book gives food for thought to some of the key […]
Researcher in the News
As part of her Professorial Fellowship at the Global Heritage Lab, funded by the Humboldt Foundation and Thyssen Foundation, Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi has published an article on ‘Colonial Statues in Post-colonial Africa’ in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. A revised version of this article has been published in French in the newspaper AfriqueXXI and […]
“Invisible Cultural Connections” – Interview with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter (in German)
A conversation with Julia Binter about what is missing in the photographic collection of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn In this interview, Julia Binter, Argelander Professor of Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, explains the limitedness of the Eurocentric canon in art history and points out the importance of the often overlooked intercultural exchange that shaped European […]