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Collaborating: For Whose Benefit? & Returning: From Causes to Consequences

As part of the Webinar Series "Global Provenance. Revisiting Appropriated Heritage in the Light of Inclusive Partnerships?"

For further information at Palais de Rumine website.

Program

10.00-11.30 (UTC+1)

Collaborating: For Whose Benefit?

Modératrice/Chair : Noémie Etienne, SNSF Professor at the University of Bern
 
Les participant.e.s du panel proposent de questionner la légitimité et la pertinence des relations établies ou convoitées entre les institutions gardiennes d’un patrimoine anthropologique ou ethnographique, et les héritiers culturels de celui-ci.

The participants of the panel propose to question the legitimacy and relevance of the relations established or expected between museums with anthropological or ethnographic collections, and the cultural owners of this heritage. 

  • Le traitement médiatique des collections des musées d’ethnographie : visibilisation de la recherche et enjeux géopolitiques. Audrey Doyen, Attachée temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

  • Revisiting the history of the ethnographic collection in Cape Town, South Africa. The changing relationship between museum curators and representatives of indigenous populations. Damiana Otoiu, Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department, University of Bucharest

  • Haunting Simulacra: the Presence and Evolving Meanings of Colonial Era Body, Bone and Facial Casts of Indigenous Peoples in Western Museum Collections. Paul Turnbull, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania

14.00-15.30/2.00-3.30PM (UTC+1)

Returning: From Causes to Consequences

Modérateur/Chair : Marc-André Renold (Professeur et directeur du Centre du droit de l'art, Université de Genève)

Des enjeux des politiques gouvernementales aux initiatives internationales de recherche en provenance, les participant.e.s discutent des circonstances de la restitution patrimoniale et de ses répercussions.

From governmental issues to international provenance research initiatives, the panel participants discuss the circumstances of heritage restitution and its repercussions.

  • Retour et traitement des biens patrimoniaux en Belgique : Dénonciations, frilosité, bonnes pratiques et évitement. Yasmina Zian, chargée de la rédaction du rapport sur la question de la restitution des patrimoines culturels en Belgique commandé à l’Académie royale de Belgique

  • Current Developments in the Netherlands: Advice on a National Policy Framework for Colonial Collections. Jos van Beurden, Senior Researcher, Free University, Amsterdam

  • Contemporary Narratives on Ownership and Convenient Usages of the Provenance Yemen’s Past. A Perspective on Values and Archives of South Arabian Heritage. Alexander Nagel, Assistant Professor at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology

  • "Demuseumification" and the return of Cultural Objects. Donna Yates, Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University, and Pierre Losson, Post-Doc, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Later Event: 3 February
Zone Franche