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 […]
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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 […]
Bio-Piracy: How Much Colonialism is There in our Gardens? Dlf Podcast (in German)
Many plants that grow in gardens today have a colonial past. From the tulip to the titanium root. Some botanical gardens are trying to come to terms with their history and are encountering resistance in the process.