The GHL seminar series continues this Thursday from 4 to 6 pm in our GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor. As a space for experimentation and dialogue, the series seeks to critically explore multiple pasts and presents to envision alternative futures. It aims to bring scholars and practitioners from across the globe together […]
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Happening this winter semester: Engaged Anthropology-Reimagining Social Transformation in Collaborative Anthropological Research
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. In the rapidly […]
Eleonora Grammatikou presented her PhD project at a meeting organized by the Tucher Cultural Foundation
Nürnberg, 16 November 2024 – Our Doctoral Research Fellow Eleonora Grammatikou presented her PhD project, “Heritage Revisited: Cultural Identity and the Representation of People of Color – A Study of the Tucher Family Coat of Arms”, at a meeting organized by the Tucher Cultural Foundation. Pursuing her doctorate at the University of Bonn, with support […]
Bonn, 05 November 2024. Aline R. Barbosa Pereira discussed mining for the energy transition at the VHS – Bonn
Our Research Manager Aline R. Barbosa Pereira contributed to the roundtable on Resource Extractivism and Environmental (In)Justice organised by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) in cooperation with the Volkshochschule in Bonn (VHS). Three other experts with different disciplinary backgrounds joined the discussion moderated by Cécile Jeblawei (BCDSS): Prof. Dr. Ulbe Bosma […]
Start of the GHL Seminar Series on October 31
The GHL seminar series starts next Thursday from 4 to 6 pm in our GHL Seminar room at Poststraße 26, 1st Floor. As a space for experimentation and dialogue, the series seeks to critically explore multiple pasts and presents to envision alternative futures. It aims to bring scholars and practitioners from across the globe together […]
Bonn, 23 October 2024. The Global Heritage Lab opens its doors to the public.
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’. Visit us on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m. Photos by Julia Binter, 2024
Dr. Alejandro Mora Motta’s recently published book: “Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance”
In 2024 our postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Alejandro Mora Motta published his book on Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance with Routledge. Besides uncovering part of Chile’s colonial past and its enduring consequences for the Mapuche-Williche and peasant communites, the book gives food for thought to some of the key […]
Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi will present a Paper at the “Envisioning Decolonial Futures through Archaeology” Conference at the University of Cambridge (25.10.2024)
Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, our postdoctoral research fellow, is speaking at the Envisioning Decolonial Futures through Archaeology conference collaboratively organised by the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge on 22-26 October 2024. He will speak on “Decolonising decolonisation: moving from discourse to practice, and to pluriversal dialogue in managing […]
Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi will give a talk at the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre Seminar Series of the University of York (22.10.2024)
Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, our postdoctoral research fellow, will contribute to the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre Seminar Series of the University of York on 22 October 2024 with the talk Ọfϙ in the age of decolonisation and restitution: interrogating Igbo objects of sovereignty and authority in the collections of the MAA, Cambridge. In […]
A Laboratory for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue?
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.