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Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
It's a hugely exciting month for the CHRC Lunchtime Seminar series - with some wonderful talks, starting with our very own Dr. Alisa Santikarn's talk on Elephants, Temples and Nationalism this Thursday (1pm)!
Sign up to join online here: rb.gy/ybsszw.
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Speaking on the idea of heritage and ethics through colonial legacies at @Cambridge_Uni @HCDGroup (Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group) with Dr. John Carman on March 5th. The session is online so please do join if you're interested!
🚨Next #HCDG talk:
Tuesday, 5th March @ 2-3:30pm.
We’ll have a panel on ‘Heritage, Law, and Ethics’ by John Carman and Shubhangni Gupta.
👉For attendance instructions see ⬇️
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Published today, this brilliant Handbook sheds light on the relationship between the fields of heritage & law and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways: routledge.com/The-Routledge-… @RoutledgeHist @routledgebooks #heritage #law
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
This is tomorrow! Very much looking forward to discussing how best to represent complicated colonial figures.
🚨Join us online next Tuesday (February 13) for one more #HCDG #itscomplicated session.
Jack Ashby @JackDAshby will discuss 'Re-presenting Representation: Complicated Identities of Celebrated Figures'.
More info on how to attend in poster ⬇️
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Very much looking forward to giving this talk next week - and benefitting from the discussion around it - about how best to represent people like EC Stirling, a huge figure in the history of Australian zoology and anthropology.
🚨Join us online next Tuesday (February 13) for one more #HCDG #itscomplicated session.
Jack Ashby @JackDAshby will discuss 'Re-presenting Representation: Complicated Identities of Celebrated Figures'.
More info on how to attend in poster ⬇️
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Anyone in Cambridge this Thursday: come and hear about the history of the National Trust and its relationship with British colonialism from the 1890s to today!
I will be speaking in person at the @camb_heritage research seminar about my PhD research at 1pm
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Woke wars, colonialism and (of course) The National Trust - reflecting on great seminar by @HCDGroup @beckyhodg97 #colonialism #heritage heritagefutures.wordpress.co…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Shoutout to @CambridgeGender event Transatlantic Dialogues: A Symposium on Race, Imprisonment, and Transformative Justice on 16 November. Important themes our tours explore too. Register: eu1.hubs.ly/H069bTc0
#race #justice #imprisonment
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
In 1947 Mikel Utsi curated the @MAACambridge's Sámi display case. This was the earliest example in Cambridge of work by an Indigenous curator. [1/2]
📸P.109431.MUS Sámi display case, @MAACambridge. Photographer: Len Morley, c1970
🔗collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/ph…
ALT Black and white documentary photograph of the Sámi display case, including a cradle (hanging in the centre of the case), a sled (standing on one end on the right of the case) and a tree trunk (standing on the left of the case from which hangs an apron belt on a loom).
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Trending Globally on restitution today.
New York’s Salon Art and Design Returns for Its 12th Edition, Promising Visitors a ‘Sense of Discovery’. Read more on this in an article by Artnet Gallery Network. news.artnet.com/buyers-guide…
The remains of 4 tribal warriors killed nearly 150 years ago have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to Taiwan. Read more about this article here. ed.ac.uk/news/2023/mudan-sku…
Activists protested in France, demanding that a mask auctioned and sold for millions be returned to Gabon, its place of originality.Find details in this article
BY Tessa Solomon . artnews.com/art-news/news/af…
Christie's to auction Pechstein painting after settlement reached with heir. Read more on this in an article. By Catherine Hickley. lootedart.com/news.php?r=WC7…
Photo credit: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP
#RestitutionNow
#GlobalConversation
#WhatsTrendingOnRestitution
#CulturalHeritage
#CulturalPreservation
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
🥥CALL FOR MEMBERS: Countering the Colonial Project🥥
—a community-serving space for underserved academics & activists (like ourselves) who are wrestling with questions around the ‘colonial’ in the past, present & future tenses
Convened by @antonioalcazr
🔗southsouthmovement.org/proje…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
First capital of colonial Senegal (1872-1957) and home to first beginnings of Senegalese democracy, Saint Louis was a melting pot where mix race competed boldly for political leadership (9th & 20th centuries). This rich history is celebrated as part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
🚨See below for the Heritage + Colonialism Discussion Group (@HCDGroup) Michaelmas Term Card!
Four exciting events this November around the theme "It's Complicated"!
For more information - follow this link: heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/even…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
We are delighted to present the Heritage Research Group Seminar Term Card for Michaelmas 2023!
📅⏰ Thursdays, 1pm
📍McDonald Research Institute Seminar Room (+ online)
👉 Find out more: heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/even…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
1 week to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity! @uniofeastanglia @IpswichMuseums
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Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
The Museum Test, a visual flow chart for curators to determine how effectively museum displays handle topics of colonialism, empire, slavery and representation.
museumsassociation.org/museu…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
NAGPRA: By funding scientific studies on Native American human remains, the @NSF and other federal agencies have created incentives for institutions to hold on to ancestors in ways that undermine the goals of NAGPRA, @propublica @marymhudetz found.
propublica.org/article/delay…
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Scholars Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy "say African nations face a double task: first, restoring memory through reclaiming heritage, second, a process of “self-reinvention” that connects reclaimed artifacts to present-day societies." buff.ly/3PXsaMT
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
Q&A | 'Museums in Britain can be a painful space - institutions must be able to understand this pain'
Museums Journal hears from the Changemakers who created The Museum Test, a new decolonisation tool for curators.
Read: ow.ly/w7nU50PbI4e
@OSCH_Glasgow @MuseumsScotland
ALT A woman looking at a museum exhibit and writing on a clipboard
Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group retweeted
"Benin Bronzes in Britain will be returned to Nigeria despite revelations they will become the property of a local king, The Telegraph can reveal."
Read on and they mean just Kelvingrove and the Horniman. No change in Scotland, Oxford or Cambridge. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07…
