Eine Karnevals-Jam-Session – Kommt, wie ihr seid, oder verkleidet, schlüpft in andere Rollen. Bringt gern Musikinstrumente mit und werdet Teil einer gemeinsamen musikalischen Improvisation. Zusammen füllen wir das Global Heritage Lab mit Rhythmus und Feierlaune.

We are pleased to welcome Vivien Markert, Frederik Schmitz and Dr. Maximilian Mayer to present and discuss their book "The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State." (2025).

Ihr habt Lust auf Kreativität, Austausch und neue Perspektiven? Dann kommt zur Puppenwerkstatt des Global Heritage Lab! Gemeinsam gestalten wir Puppen, die von namibischen Puppen wie den Okaana/Ombopi inspiriert sind.

Join our conversation about Indigenous textile knowledge from the Tarabuco community in Bolivia and the cultural meanings of weaving beyond technique. Through storytelling, shared reflections, and lived experience, this event explores weaving as a social, spiritual, and political practice.

In this session, we are pleased to welcome Ganga Rajinee Dissanayaka, who will examine the Kandy Ring through provenance, craftsmanship, personal memory, and its ecological and material sustainability dimensions. Tracing the gold ring’s journey from traditional Sri Lankan techniques to colonial collections, reveals layered histories, human-environment interactions, and evolving heritage values.

Fühlen, staunen, verstehen! Am Anfang dieser besonderen Führung steht deine Wahl: Such dir etwas aus, das dich anspricht - und entdecke, welche überraschenden Verbindungen es zu den Ausstellungsstücken gibt. Hier darfst du anfassen, ausprobieren und Kunst mit allen Sinnen erleben. Tauche ein in kreative Prozesse des künstlerischen und textilen Gestaltens - und erfahre, wie sie mit faszinierenden Geschichten aus Afrika, Lateinamerika und der Karibik verwoben sind.

How did the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms reshape slavery across the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Middle East?

Our exhibition is getting cozy for Christmas. Bring your knitting, crocheting, or weaving projects and join us for a cozy crafting session.

Artist Talk with Cheryl McIntosh At the center of this Artistic Talk is the portrait of “Nanny - Queen of the Maroons”. According to historical sources, Nanny was born in present-day Ghana, enslaved, and forcibly taken to Jamaica, where she became a leader of the Maroons—communities of formerly enslaved people who had liberated themselves. This participatory talk uses the idea of camouflage as a point of departure to explore artistic strategies for engaging with the past, considering dress as a form of resistance, and giving voice to marginalized people.

Komm zu unserer Carnival Music Jam – komm verkleidet, bring ein Instrument mit und hilf uns, das Global Heritage Lab mit Rhythmus und Feierlaune zu füllen.

Fühlen, staunen, verstehen! Am Anfang dieser besonderen Führung steht deine Wahl: Such dir etwas aus, das dich anspricht - und entdecke, welche überraschenden Verbindungen es zu den Ausstellungsstücken gibt. Hier darfst du anfassen, ausprobieren und Kunst mit allen Sinnen erleben. Tauche ein in kreative Prozesse des künstlerischen und textilen Gestaltens - und erfahre, wie sie mit faszinierenden Geschichten aus Afrika, Lateinamerika und der Karibik verwoben sind.

Du liebst Literatur und das Lesen, hast aber bisher nie selbst zum Stift gegriffen? Dann ist dies der perfekte Moment, es einfach auszuprobieren! Ob jung oder alt - jeder ist willkommen. Einzige Voraussetzung: Lust aufs Schreiben.

In this seminar session, we invite Abdul Basit Zafar, a postdoctoral researcher at the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) of our university. Counting with research expertise in Islamic theology, comparative theology, and theological anthropology, he will present his project on Beyond Binaries: Queer Islamic Theology, supported by the Volkswagen Foundation.

How are needles, thread and textiles related to resistance? In this film screening, which will be followed by an open space for dialogue, we will explore how textile crafts can be used as a form of political resistance. We will show several short documentaries about: "Tatreez", palestinian art of embroidery and "Arpilleras", fabrics created by Chilean women in resistance

Feel, marvel, comprehend! This special tour starts with your choice: pick something that appeals to you—and discover the surprising connections it has to the exhibits. Here, you can touch, try things out, and experience art with all your senses.

Ihr habt Lust auf Kreativität, Austausch und neue Perspektiven? Dann kommt zur Puppenwerkstatt des Global Heritage Lab! Gemeinsam gestalten wir Puppen, die von namibischen Puppen wie den Okaana/Ombopi inspiriert sind. Dabei tauschen wir uns über Schönheit, Werte und Mode aus. In entspannter Atmosphäre nähen, reden, designen – ein Raum für Austausch, Kreativität und das Potential von widerständiger Handarbeit. Kommt vorbei und macht mit – wir freuen uns auf euch!

Fühlen, staunen, verstehen! Am Anfang dieser besonderen Führung steht deine Wahl: Such dir etwas aus, das dich anspricht - und entdecke, welche überraschenden Verbindungen es zu den Ausstellungsstücken gibt. Hier darfst du anfassen, ausprobieren und Kunst mit allen Sinnen erleben. Tauche ein in kreative Prozesse des künstlerischen und textilen Gestaltens - und erfahre, wie sie mit faszinierenden Geschichten aus Afrika, Lateinamerika und der Karibik verwoben sind.

With Prof. Dr. Tom Bratrud, University of Bergen, Dr. Sultan Doughan, Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr. Veronica Ferreri, Ca' Foscari University; Moderator: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn, Join us at the Global Heritage Lab and online.

Join us for the opening of the exhibition Botanic Futures: Towards a New Encounter with Plants on 24 July 2025 at 6 PM at the Mediterranean House, Botanic Gardens Bonn. The exhibition is part of the research-based teaching project Botanic Futures at the Global Heritage Lab, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter and Joanne Rodriguez, in cooperation with Dr. Cornelia Löhne, Botanical Gardens, and artist Parisa Karimi.

Vortrag und Diskussion zu unerzählten Geschichten und Symbolischer Dissonanz bei Textilien in missionarischen Kontexten.

Wissenschaft trifft Kunst ist ein Gespräch zwischen Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen zur peruanische Webkunst. Diese hat sich auch unter den Bedingungen von Eroberung, Kolonisierung und Missionierung weiterentwickelt. Indigene Weber*innen nahmen aus Europa und Asien kommende Materialien auf, um sie kreativ und widerständig zu neuen Formen und Designs zu verarbeiten. Heute setzt sich die Tradition in einer faszinierenden Mischung aus historischen Techniken, kultureller Identität und künstlerischer Innovation fort.

In this seminar session, we invite María Esperanza Rock Núñez, a Chilean scholar who is currently a Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She is working on industrial heritage from a decolonial perspective, focusing on the deindustrialisation of coal-extracting regions.

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.