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The Global Heritage Lab congratulates Dr. Kelechi Uguwanyi on his new position at the University of Glasgow.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter is discussing this sensitive question during the panel “Critical Fabulation” at the conference “geschichten. Die Produktion historischen Wissens”, hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, on 28 March 2025.

Joanne Rodriguez and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter discussed their research on botanic gardens at the conference „Diffracting the Critical – STS HuB 2025” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. They joined the invigorating discussion of the panel “Diffracting urban greening: Re-Thinking species collectives beyond ‘nature’, ‘landscape’, ‘ecology’, and ‘infrastructure’.

Under the title “PLURIVERSUM – Voices from Around the World – Discourses for a Just Future,” a unique multimedia program will be presented, creating space for dialogue on global justice, perspectives on social transformation, environmental policy, and the rights of marginalized communities.

How has Christian missionization shaped fashion in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean? How do scholars, artists, and designers engage with this legacy today? Join us for the three public events of the international transdisciplinary conference “Interwoven Dependencies. Redressing Fashion and the Heritage of Mission” on 2, 3 and 4 April – onsite at the Global Heritage Lab or online.

The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an internationally operating research university with abroad spectrum of subjects. 200 years of history, around 31,500 students, more than 6,000 employees and anexcellent reputation at home and abroad: The University of Bonn is one of the most important universities in Germany and has been awarded the title of University of […]

The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) networks of NAoHH (Anthropology of History and Heritage) and FAN (Future Anthropologies Network) are inviting contributions to a two-day workshop in collaboration with the Global Heritage Lab at the University of Bonn. The event will take place on July 23 and 24, 2025, in Bonn. This collaborative workshop […]

Bonn, 27 January 2025. As part of the project Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures (CCP, ECF), the project partner institutions in Namibia and Germany are developing a publication. The CCP, ECF project is, to date, the largest collaborative research, exhibition and restitution project in which cultural belongings have been returned from Germany to Namibia. […]

Berlin, 13 February 2025 – Our Argelander-Professor for Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, Jun.-Prof. Dr Julia Binter, was invited to present her recently launched book chapter Towards Democratising the Formation of Knowledge: Researching Sensitive Collections from Namibia Collectively (open access) at the Humboldt Forum, in Berlin, together with Researchers and curators from the Stiftung Preußischer […]

At the end of January 2025, our guest researcher Dr. Tobias Skowronek published a provocation in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents as part of his ongoing research about the German metals used in the fabrication of the Benin Bronzes.