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 […]
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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.
Open position: Research Assistent at GHL (deadline 21.7.2024)
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 inGermany and has been awarded the title of University of Excellence. […]
Colonial Entanglements of Museums
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter will be giving a lecture on the „Colonial Entanglements of Museums” at Naturmuseum Dortmund, 11 July, 7 pm
CIRPAT Seminar
Our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, is giving a presentation entitled “Dissonant Heritage and Ontological Ambivalence: Colonial and Missionary Encounters with Igbo Cosmology – the Case of ‘Twin Killing’ in Nigeria” at CY Cergy Paris Université on 1 July
Participation at the 5th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium in Berlin
Our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi, participated in and presented his work in progress at the 5th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, which was held at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, 5-8 June 2024.