"To what extent can the documentation, archiving, and sharing of marginalized (historical) knowledge open up spaces for new ways of thinking?"
Congrats to our team member Ohini Toffa on their brilliant new book with @bpb.de
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Discover with us the multiple paths of a #provenance research process! July 15th, 6-7.15 pm: Webinar #2 in our series #UnpackingProvenance. This time, we discuss this Kakiemon model of an elephant from Japan @ Smithsonian‘s National Museum of Asian Art! Register today: asia.si.edu/whats-on/eve...
Thanks for an inspiring exchange with the colleagues from the three new launched projects funded by the #GermanFrenchProvenanceResearchFund (cmb.hu-berlin.de/fileadmin/us...) yesterday @ #HumboldtForum at the occasion of the #ProvenanceResearchDay! The discussions continue today @ #CentreMarcBloch.
In honor of #ProvenanceResearchDay there was a guided tour through the exhibition “Kosmos Blauer Reiter” with Andreas Schalhorn from the Museum of Prints and Drawings and Sven Haase from the Central Archive today.
Our colleagues from the Central Archive and the Alte Nationalgalerie are touring the traces of provenance and sharing provenance stories in honor of #ProvenanceResearchDay @akpf.bsky.social
Ready to go..
Reminder that the State Museums and Humboldt Forum are hosting many events this afternoon! Check them out here: www.smb.museum/nachrichten/...
And if you’re not in Berlin, there’s a live-streamed event as well, starting at 4:30 pm (see below)!
#ProvenanceResearchDay @akpf.bsky.social
If you’re not in Berlin today but don’t want to miss out on #ProvenanceResearchDay be sure to check out the event "Hidden Paths and Emerging Networks" hosted in the Humboldt Forum which will be live streamed, starting at 4:30 pm!
You can find more info here: www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
In total, there are over 160 events in 10 countries for the 7th #ProvenanceResearchDay ! Check them out at: www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/veranstaltun...
We are ready for the 7th #DayofProvenanceresearch! If you want to join us for one (or all) of our many activities, have a look here:
www.smb.museum/en/whats-new...
#provenance #provenienzforschung
On the 7th International Provenance Research Day on 9 April 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin we provide insights into the work of postcolonial provenance research in the Humboldt Forum.
Check out our program here:
www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
🕯 Das Gedenken an Hanau ist unerlässlich!
2024 ließen sich im Kulturforum 84 Exponate von über 400 Schüler*innen bestaunen, die beim Schulwettbewerb „Junge Kunst für Hanau“ mitgemacht haben. Für das SPKmagazin haben einige von ihnen ihre Arbeiten vorgestellt.
www.spkmagazin.de/2024/junge-k...
Hier in Oldenburg suchen wir Verstärkung im Bereich #Provenienzforschung und #Digitalisierung - und zwar im Bereich #Naturkunde!
Im Angebot ist eine 50%-13TV-L-Stelle für 3 Jahre im Projekt #ProSaDi!
„Kolonialgeschichte: Das Schicksal der zwölf Schädel“: Guter Text von Holger Stoecker @unigoettingen.bsky.social über Rückgabe der Ahnen durch Charité Berlin. Was tut @diplo.de? @laenderkultur.bsky.social
@hdilger.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
via (€)
@zeitonline.bsky.social
📖 Book launch of "Collections as Relations"on 13 February. The book includes a chapter by our dear former colleague Julia Binter and the collaborative provenance project on sensitive collections from Namibia "Confronting Colonial Pasts".
Opening page of the "Museum of Stolen History" series in The Continent, showing the drawing of a mostly empty museum showcase with just one object: the wooden sculpture of Ngwi Ndem on the upper left shelf.
Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism:
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
📍 Fellowship Opportunity: The NIAS Institute is offering two fellowships (AY 2025-2026) for research in the depots, archives and collections of museums belonging to the Colonial Collections Consortium.
Researchers from the Global South are invited to apply until March 17:
📖Looks like a great read! We've got our eye on Corinne Geering's chapter on "Museums, colonial ethnography and the European countryside"
👉New Open Access Publication
"Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950"
Thank you for your kind feedback. We enjoyed it too - see you next time!
Es beginnt mit einer chinesischen Porzellantasse und ihrem Weg nach Berlin: Morgen startet die neue Webinar-Reihe "Unpacking Provenance: Retracing the Histories of Asian Art" vom Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art und Staatliche Museen zu Berlin #Provenienzforschung asia.si.edu/whats-on/eve...
Registration is still open for Wednesday's online talk "Unpacking Provenance".
Panelists will formulate research questions, brainstorm approaches, and share resources for tracing the history of Asian art.
via: www.smb.museum/en/events/de...
A man in a white traditional garment, sitting.
A woman and a man in conversation, the man wearing a traditional white garment.
Today is January 16, 2025. Few weeks ago, after the opening of “Histories of Tanzania” at Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Chief Adam Abdul Mkwawa II. told me: “It also helped a little to have people to share and listen to our cries and stories.” (1/2)
Photo Credit: Imani Nsamila
🎫 EVENT TIP: A conference on restitution, rematriation and reparation is taking place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 24 and 25 of January. The two-day congress includes lectures, performances and sound offerings. See you there!
Eine der Porträtierten ist Alma Simba, deren sehr bewegendes Gedicht "Cold Hubris" hier (und in der aktuellen und sehr sehenswerten Ausstellung "Der Kolonialismus in den Dingen" im Museum 5 Kontinente) zu lesen ist:
www.sapiens.org/culture/cold...
Danke für den Hinweis an @rhoelzl.bsky.social
💬Today the department of Modern Art History at the TU Berlin is hosting its KuK-Tuesdays Dislocation series on the "Contact Zone". Speakers will discuss the potential and ambiguities of this prominent concept within and beyond the ethnographic museum.
More via www.tu.berlin/en/kuk/veran...
CfP: "Stadt und Kolonialismus", Konferenz am MARCHIVUM Mannheim, 21.-23.11 2025, Deadline 31.1.2025
europehist.hypotheses.org/2595 #history #skystorians #Kolonialismus
📖That comics can be a great medium for (re)telling the history of colonialism shows this graphic novel on three generations of anti-colonial resistance in Cameroon.
It is available from the Initiative Perspectivwechsel at www.initiative-perspektivwechsel.org/projekte/wid....
The International Association for Provenance Research @akpf.bsky.social will be holding its annual conference at the University of Bonn in September. This year's focus is on transdisciplinary collaboration and its potential for provenance research.
The call for papers is open until Feb. 28th: