On this guided tour we'll take you through the Global Heritage Lab's exhibition space and its new exhibition 'Dressing Resistance', featuring artworks by international artists and performers. This guided tour is part of the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. During this week, different institutes of the University of Bonn invite scholars to open up conversations and critical reflections on various approaches to heritage in a global context.

"Crumbling is not an Instant's Act": thoughts on monumentality, endurance, and public memory. We are pleased to invite you to the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. Dan Hicks will launch his new book "Every monument will fall". It will be followed by a presentation and discussion.

The Kick-off Panel: “Re-thinking Heritage Studies: Lessons from the Global South” is the starting event of the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. During this week, different institutes of the University of Bonn invite scholars to open up conversations and critical reflections on various approaches to heritage in a global context. As panellists will join us Asrat Gella, Carla Jaimes Betancourt and Julia Binter, moderated by Alejandro Mora Motta.

In this fellows seminar Sophia Labadi will introduce her research topic "From Streets to Front Pages: The Media Stories of Contested Statues of enslavers and colonial figures since 2020”. As a discussant Julia Binter will join us. It will be part of the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. During this week, different institutes of the University of Bonn invite scholars to open up conversations and critical reflections on various approaches to heritage in a global context. The proposed agenda includes discussions on nature-culture and sustainability, indigenous heritage and cultural landscapes in the Americas and Africa, as well as on the coloniality of statues and monuments. 

A workshop and film screening as part of the exhibition “Global Entanglements in the Collections of the University of Bonn”, Global Heritage Lab @ P26.

In this session, Walther Maradiegue explores the sonic afterlives of heritagization in an indigenous Peruvian community. Focusing on a protest by Cañaris ‘comuneros’ at the government's denial of their existence and land rights, he argues that they challenge the government’s politics of recognition on a performative and sonic level by combining the dramatized performance of the 1781 execution of indigenous leader Tupac Amaru II and the ‘Danza de los Guerreros Cascabeleros’, which has been recognized as a national heritage by the state.

Roundtable discussion in the framework of the international conference "Interwoven Dependencies. Fashion and the Heritage of Mission"

Keynote in the framework of the international conference "Interwoven Dependencies. Fashion and the Heritage of Mission"

Keynote in the framework of the international conference "Interwoven Dependencies. Fashion and the Heritage of Mission"

This seminar session brings five scholars to reflect on the recently published book "Collections as Relations", which explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations.

This seminar session brings two scholars to reflect on bottom-up heritage-making in Vietnam and China.

Using intercultural epistemological dialogues, we examine how heritage and territory are framed, contested, and negotiated in our globalised world.

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’.

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.

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.

Lecture by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter on the "Colonial Entanglements of Museums” at Naturmuseum Dortmund, 11 July, 7pm.

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 workshop series aims to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and to consider whether and how they challenge, re-imagine and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, participation, history, democracy, and memory. The series intends to provide a comprehensive and global approach, with case studies from around the globe.

We are inviting researchers from TRA 4 and TRA 5 with a particular interest in or research focus on the global south, environmental ethics, education and/or research, (critical) development studies, marginalized indigenous, feminist and/or decolonial standpoints to apply for participation.

The workshop series aims to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and to consider whether and how they challenge, re-imagine and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, participation, history, democracy, and memory. The series intends to provide a comprehensive and global approach, with case studies from around the globe.

The workshop series aims to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and to consider whether and how they challenge, re-imagine and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, participation, history, democracy, and memory. The series intends to provide a comprehensive and global approach, with case studies from around the globe.