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Under the motto “Science for everyone to participate in!”, the University of Bonn cordially invites you for the second time to the Science Festivalon Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 12:00 AM to 6:00 PMon the Hofgartenwiese, Bonn. With many exciting activities, including the TRAllye – a “Science rallye” for the whole family – the Transdisciplinary […]

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.The […]

Film screening and discussion with Joel Haikali, filmmaker, Namibia 5 June 2024, 10-12 AM Oxfordstr. 15 – Room 1.002 Joel Haikali is one of the most renowned filmmakers in Namibia. His recent project is documenting the process of connecting with cultural belongings which returned from Berlin to Namibia in 2022. The film is part of the […]

Redbird Ferguson, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University 4 June 2024, 6-8 PM, University of Bonn, Main Building HS XII The world is grappling with the challenge of finding sustainable approaches to conserving and protecting our ocean and coastal systems, increasing the urgency to recognise and include Indigenous Knowledge and cultural values of […]

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter talks about knowledge justice and Namibian cultural assets Junior Professor Dr Julia Binter investigates cooperative research on cultural assets from colonial contexts in museums. She accompanies the restitution of cultural assets from Germany to Namibia with the question: How can knowledge creation in museums and cultural heritage be made more sustainable […]

The workshop series aims to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and to consider whether and how they challenge, re-imagine and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, participation, history, democracy, and memory. The series intends to provide a comprehensive and global approach, with case studies from around the globe. ©Image: Senya Zhukavin

As part of her Professorial Fellowship at the Global Heritage Lab, funded by the Humboldt Foundation and Thyssen Foundation, Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi has published an article on ‘Colonial Statues in Post-colonial Africa’ in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. A revised version of this article has been published in French in the newspaper AfriqueXXI and […]

Convened by Prof. Dr. Paul Basu and Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi The workshop series aims to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and to consider whether and how they challenge, re-imagine and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, participation, history, democracy, and memory. The series intends to provide a comprehensive and global […]

Call for Participation Pluriversal Dialogues on Environmental Ethics: Decolonising Scientific Practice for Futures Beyond ‘Development’ Date: 21-24 May, 2024Venue: Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn We are inviting researchers from TRA 4 and TRA 5 with a particular interest in or research focus on the global south, environmental ethics, education and/or research, (critical) development […]

A conversation with Julia Binter about what is missing in the photographic collection of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn In this interview, Julia Binter, Argelander Professor of Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, explains the limitedness of the Eurocentric canon in art history and points out the importance of the often overlooked intercultural exchange that shaped European […]