The rightful ownership, proper storing and multiple interpretations of museum collections has become a growing public concern and hot topic of debate in contemporary societies. In this seminar we discuss what is at stake when collections classified as anthropological or of natural history are mobilized by source communities, museum professionals, researchers and artists. How can these mobilizations help us think and act beyond dichotomies such as nature/culture, human/non-human and art/science?
Program
9.00 Welcome
9.15 “Digital Repatriation in the Global South: a model for open access to museum collections empowering indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon”
Cinthya Lana, (Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg).
9.40 “Restitution to the Yaquis, trying to understand the different layers of a conflict”
Adriana Muñoz (Museum of World Culture and Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.
10.00 “Ethnographic returns in the Argentine Chaco. Memory processes and archive film”,
Anne Gustavsson (National University of San Martín and Umeå University)
10.25 Break
10.50 “Fictionalizing the archive: creating a story of the Swedish migration in South America”
Johanna Lernstedt Sjödin (HDK Valand, University of Gothenburg)
11.15 “Mobilizing biodiversity as heritage”
Christine D. Bacon (Depart. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg)
11.40 Questions and Final discussion
Welcome!
Read more about the event on Världskulturmuseet web. Mobilizing Heritage in Theory and Practice
