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Borderless Museum Conference 2025 – Keynote Lecture – Sharon Macdonald

We are excited to announce, that as part of the Conference „Borderless Museums: Redefining Museum Narratives and Inclusivity“ starting this Sunday on International Museums Day, inherit director Sharon Macdonald will give another keynote lecture titled “Museums Across Borders: Connective Potentials”!

📍 EPICenter, Transalpina Square, Nova Gorica

📅 18 May 2025, 18:00

🎟 For registration, agenda updates, and inquiries: epic@go2025.eu

Starting on International Museums Day, the GO! Borderless Museum Conference will explore how museums can redefine narratives, foster inclusivity, and serve communities in today’s evolving world.

Further topics addressed by the conference will include how museums can become borderless platforms of knowledge, discussions on museum ethics, curatorial roles and dilemmas, community collaboration, as well as transnational and cross-border museum cooperation.

Invitation: https://www.go2025.eu/01.immagini/News/250204-konferenca-epic/Borderless%20Museums_invitation.pdf

Eventpage: https://www.go2025.eu/en/whats-up/news/borderless-museums-redefining-museum-narratives-and-inclusivity

Programm: https://icom-europe.mini.icom.museum/go-borderless-museum-conference-2025/

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Borderless Museums Conference 2025

Anthropology Day 2025 – Keynote Lecture – Sharon Macdonald

We are delighted to announce that inherit director Sharon Macdonald will give the keynote lecture – Recentring and resocializing collections: connective potentials – this Friday at the Anthropology Day 2025, with the theme “Anthropology, Collections, Restitution“!

📍 Wereldmuseum Leiden

📅 16 May, 11:00

The past decades have witnessed growing concerns around collections in Western museums and archives. Amid broader post- and decolonial critiques of heritage institutions, objects and practices, museums were confronted with demands to look critically at, or investigate possibilities for the restitution of (parts of) their collections. While the focus has tended to be on ethnographic collections, other collections that include objects, human/ancestral remains, photographs, audiovisual material, botanical specimens, field notes, indigenous knowledge, etc. raise similar concerns. Anthropology and anthropologists are deeply involved in these developments. Anthropological collecting as a colonial and extractive method has played a significant role in the establishment of ethnographic and other collections. At the same time, anthropologists are also actively involved in finding ways to address this past and push for decolonial work, developing novel ways of doing ethnography as well as looking for alternative methods, epistemologies and forms of collaboration.

This year’s Anthropology Day provides an opportunity to reflect on past contributions and look ahead. What have anthropologists contributed to debates on restitution and the evolving practices of museums, archives, and the arts? How do anthropologists collaborate with scholars and professionals from other fields—such as art history, museum studies, archaeology, history, and law—as well as with activists, artists, and stakeholders, also from the Global South? What future directions do anthropologists envision? Can ethnographic fieldwork help reshape the history and practice of ethnography as a form of collecting? How can anthropologists contribute to research on (colonial) ethnographic collections, and how might these contributions reshape the way we do anthropology?

© Antropologen Beroepsvereniging (ABv)

Eventpage: https://antropologen.nl/anthropology-day-16-may-wereldmuseum-leiden-anthropology-collections-restitution/

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Anthropology Day 2025

 

Call for Papers: “Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global”

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit paper proposals for our conference “Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global,” which will take place in Berlin 3-5 July 2024. The call for papers closes on March 4, 2024. To submit an abstract, please email us your proposal of up to 250 words at eastwest2024@web.de.

We are also offering a workshop program on July 5 in relation to the conference. The Ph.D. and master students can register for a specific workshop until February 17, 2024 at eastwest2024@web.de. All conference participants are welcome to join any one of the workshops.

The conference will take place at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin; workshops will visit other institutions in Berlin and Potsdam. In addition to the workshop track, the conference will also include a concert and several public interviews with eyewitnesses (Zeitzeugen). The conference sessions and workshops will take place either in German or in English.

Call for Papers: “Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global” (PDF)

IASA Annual Conference 2023

This year’s IASA Annual Conference will be organised by the IASA Country Group Germany/Switzerland e.V. in cooperation with the Lautarchiv of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Phonogram Archive, Department of Music Ethnology of the Ethnological Museum.
It will be held at the Humboldt Forum on November 10-11, 2023.

Thematic focus of the IASA Annual Meeting 2023: 100 years of radio and 70 years of television in Germany.

Call for papers until June 30, 2023 by email to sekretariat@iasa-online.de

Further information can be found on the IASA website.