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We are pleased to share that two of our colleagues are participating in the upcoming POLLEN Conference in Barcelona.
They will be presenting Panel 102 titled:
“Time is of the essence: Temporal (in)justice, extractivisms, and dispossessions in the ‘green transition’.”

Join us for the second participatory art workshop of the series Crafting a Life: A Participatory Art Project on the Life and Legacy of Theodor Wonja Michael: Summer (Coming of Age). The Workshop is about the teenage years of Theodor Wonja Michael (1925-2019) —a key figure in Afro-German history. The Workshop invites you to engage, reflect, and create together, it weaves storytelling and textile art into a shared, collective experience.

We are delighted to welcome TheMuseumsLab Fellows Chabwera Phiri and Erëmirë Krasniqi to the Global Heritage Lab at the University of Bonn for their residency. During their stay in Bonn, both fellows will engage in conversations and exchanges with researchers, curators, and practitioners, contributing their perspectives and experiences to ongoing discussions around museums, heritage, and […]

Discover the world through language, culture, history, and ideas at the University of Bonn. The fields of Humanities, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Theology encourage students to think critically, explore diverse perspectives, and engage with the cultural and ethical questions shaping our society today. With an international and interdisciplinary approach, students gain valuable communication and analytical […]

The exhibition explores the ongoing legacy of a destructive form of Knowing Plants: the plantation system, which relied on the exploitation of plants, people, and ecosystems.

The Autumn School on The Democratization of Heritage: Towards a Critical Engagement with Inclusive, Accessible, and Participatory Practices takes place from 21-25 September 2026 in Paris (France). Application Deadline: 07 June 2026. This Autumn School explores how museums and heritage institutions can translate the principles of accessibility, inclusivity, and participation— central to the 2022 ICOM […]

Julia Binter joins the Konstfack Research Seminar transfer/translate/reconstruct: methods of exploring museum collections to present the collaborative, transdisciplinary research and exhibition project Dressing Resistance: Fashion and the Heritage of Mission. The seminar will take place at Konstfack in Stockholm and online on Friday, 8 May 2026, from 13:00 to 15:00 For online attendance click the […]

In their article “Port Cities Storytelling: Drawing on Materials of Neglect,” Jun.-Prof. Dr Julia Binter and her colleagues, Yvonne Liao, Olivia Durand, and Helena Lopes, explore how overlooked materials and marginal spaces can reshape our understanding of port cities and their histories. Focusing on storytelling as a method, the authors show how neglected objects, fragmented […]

A recent The New York Times article highlights how modern science is reshaping long-held historical assumptions about West African gold trade. For centuries, European traders believed that merchants along Africa’s so-called “Gold Coast” diluted gold with cheaper metals. But new research led by Tobias Skowronek challenges that claim. By analyzing gold artifacts recovered from the […]

13.04.2026 How does the Catholic Church engage with the legacy of colonialism? This question was at the center of a meeting of the working group “Dealing with the Consequences of Colonialism” of Justitia et Pax at the Global Heritage Lab of the University of Bonn. In the context of increasing global interconnectedness, the historical burdens […]