„Museum, Power, and Identity“ – The Third WeberWorldCafé
11 June 2015, 3-8 pm Museen Dahlem, Lansstraße 8 / Arnimallee 25, 14195 Berlin The 19th and early 20th centuries are the time of the great foundations and expansions of museums in Europe. In many...
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„Weltwissen“ ohne Kolonien: Hans Belting über Kolonialismus, Kunst und...
von Helen May und Gesche Schifferdecker „Kann man andere Kulturen ausstellen, indem man ihre Kunst ausstellt?“, fragt sich Hans Belting, Professor Emeritus am Institut der Kunstwissenschaft und...
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Wanted: Science Reporter!
Foto: [222/365] Breaking News by pasukaru76 | CC-BY 2.0We are looking for science reporter for the WeberWorldCafé “Museum, Power, and Identity.” As a Science Reporter, you are invited to document the...
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WeberWorldCafé “Museum, Power, and Identity”– Introducing our table hosts
How can artefacts be exhibited without falling into problematic categories like “Europe” and “the Other”? Can we make sense of the distinction between art and ethnology or art and material culture?...
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Table Topics: “Cultural Heritage, Belonging and Ownership”
With our table hosts Dr. Sophie Engelhardt (Referat Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and Prof. Dr. Kavita Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) you can discuss issues concerning Cultural Heritage,...
View ArticleTable Topics: “Decolonizing Knowledge – Decolonizing Aesthetics”
With our table hosts PD Dr. Paola Ivanov (Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Wendy Shaw (Freie Universität Berlin) you are going to debate about issues concerning...
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Table Topics: “Object Biographies and Theory of Things”
The discussion of our table hosts Dr. des. Verena Rodatus (Ethnological Museum Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) will focus on Object Biographies and Theory of Things. In the...
View ArticleTable Topics: “How to Display Rituals”
Our table hosts Dr. Mathias Alubafi (Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria) and Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels (Universität Heidelberg) will discuss with their guests how Ritual and Performance can be...
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Table Topics: “The Archive and the Unconscious”
Dr. Mirjam Brusius (Oxford University) and Monika Pessler (Sigmund Freud Museum Wien) will talk about The Archive and the Unconscious. doors (Photo: paddy patterson under CC BY 2.0) Like archives,...
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Table Topics: “The Practice of Curating”
Our table hosts Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) and Menno Fitski (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) will be up for discussion about theoretical and practical aspects of Curating at their...
View ArticleTable Topics “Identity, Language and Museum”
The table Identity, Language and Museum is hosted by Dr. des. Britta Hochkirchen (Universität Bielefeld) and Dr. Nabila Oulebsir (University of Poitiers). Britta Hochkirchen says that language and...
View ArticleTable Topics “Artistic Intervention”
The table Artistic Intervention, hosted by Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne (Kunsthochschule Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann (Kunsthochschule Kassel) will focus on the perspective of the artists...
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts cancels “Kimono Wednesdays”
Claude Monet: La Japonaise, Madame Monet en costume japonais (1876) (public domain) After protests Boston’s “Museum of Fine Arts” had to cancel their “Kimono Wednesdays”. As a part of their exhibition...
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The Death of the Expert Curator
By Anna Yuwen The collection and summation of all human knowledge is a not a new endeavor. Varying institutions across millennia have searched for ways to catalogue, archive, and disseminate knowledge;...
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Tipp: Thomas Billhardt. Vietnam
Vom 17. Juli bis zum 6. September 2015 ist im Museum THE KENNEDYS in Berlin die Sonderausstellung “Thomas Billhardt. Vietnam” zu sehen. Vietnam War Memorial (photo: InSapphoWeTrust under CC BY-SA 2.0)...
View ArticleRecommendation: “Rudi Meisel. Compatriots 1977 – 1987″
The c/o Gallery situated in the Amerika Haus Berlin will host an exhibition of Rudi Meisel’s photographs titled “Rudi Meisel . Compatriots 1977 – 1987“. Starting in 1971, Meisel worked as a freelance...
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Table Topics “Educational ‘Aid’ during the Cold War”
The table Educational ‘Aid’ during the Cold War, hosted by Corinne Geering (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen) and Constantin Katsakioris (Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies) will discuss the...
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“Globalisation during the Cold War: Culture, New Geopolitics and Che...
How much was today’s world order shaped by the Cold War era and its end? What events represent important caesurae of the East-West conflict besides the year 1989, for instance the founding of the...
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Table Topics “Social Movements and Cultural Icons”
At the table Social Movements and Cultural Icons, hosted by Beata Hock (Universität Leipzig) and James Mark (University of Exeter), we will consider the extent to which the socialist world was part of...
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