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Bonn, January 2025 – Our post-doctoral researcher, Alejandro Mora motta, was invited to present his recently launched book Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Univerity of Bonn. At the Colloquium of the Cultural and Political Change (CPC) ZEF Group, he will explore the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bottrop, 5 December 2024 – Our doctoral research fellow, Joanne Rodriguez, was invited to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop to give a lecture as part of the exhibition Sheila Hicks (2 October 2024 – 23 February 2025). Her talk focused on onto-epistemologies connected to the hands and textiles in the Andean region, exploring […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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, 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 […]