Events

Performing existence: The politics of heritage and recognition in Peru

GHL Seminar Series

4 to 6 pm, 24.04.2025

GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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 - Interwoven Dependencies. Redressing Fashion and the Heritage of Mission

Global Heritage Lab

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 4.30pm

GHL, Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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

Dr. Gabrielle Hosein - Nachorious. The Nach Gyal as Post Indenture Caribbean Feminist Jouvay Mas

Global Heritage Lab

Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 4.30pm

GHL, Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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

Keynote performance by Tuli Mekondjo - Saara Omulaule: Black Saara

Global Heritage Lab

Friday, 4 April 2025, 4.30pm

GHL, Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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

Book launch "Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures"

GHL Seminar Series

4 to 6 pm, 23.01.2025

GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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.

Heritage-making from the ground up in Vietnam and China

GHL Seminar Series

4 to 6 pm, 28.11.2024

GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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

Heritage and Territory in a Global Context: Ontologies, Epistemologies and Ambiguities

GHL Seminar Series

4 to 6 pm, 31.10.2024

GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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

Bonn, 23 October 2024. The Global Heritage Lab opens its doors to the public.

Global Heritage Lab

2 to 6 p.m. from Wednesdays 'til Sundays

Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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’.

Happening this winter semester: Engaged Anthropology-Reimagining Social Transformation in Collaborative Anthropological Research

Engaged Anthropology

12-14h, Tuesdays

GHL Seminar Room, Poststraße 26, 1st Floor

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.

A Laboratory for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue?

Laboratory

10–12 September 2024

Sankt Augustin/Bonn

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.

Colonial Entanglements of Museums

Public Lecture

7pm, 11.07.2024

Naturmuseum Dortmund

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

Film Screening 05.06.2024 Reclaiming the Narrative: Utilizing Film as a Safe Space for Healing from Colonial Trauma

Film Screening

10-12 AM, 5 June 2024

Oxfordstr. 15 - Room 1.002

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.

Bonn, 23 October Hybrid Workshop Series on "Contested Monuments" continues on 17 June 2024

Contested Monuments

Session 3 - 17 June 2024

Tagungsraum des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie NRW (IZPH), Poppelsdorfer Allee 28

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.

Call for Participation: Pluriversal Dialogues on Environmental Ethics

Pluriversal Dialogues

21-24 May 2024

Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn

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.

Hybrid Workshop Series on "Contested Monuments" continues on 15 May 2024

Contested Monuments

Session 2 - 15 May 2024

Tagungsraum des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie NRW (IZPH), Poppelsdorfer Allee 28

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.

Hybrid Workshop Series on "Contested Monuments" starts on 11 March 2024

Contested Monuments

Session 1 - 11 March 2024

Tagungsraum des Internationalen Zentrums für Philosophie NRW (IZPH), Poppelsdorfer Allee 28

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.