Publication/New release Alia Rayyan: Practice of Fissures – a trans- and interdisciplinary investigation of socially engaged art interventions in East Jerusalem in the anthology “Double bind postcolonial. Critical Perspectives on

On the occasion of the publication of The Resonant Museum, the Gropius Bau invites you to a reading followed by a conversation. How can the museum become a socially relevant place? How

The EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) annually awards the EAA Book Prize to honour recent publications by EAA Members. By the 28 February 2023 deadline, we received altogether 49 nominations.

The new book offers fresh insights into the little-known collection of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Museum of European Cultures, MEK) in Berlin. Buchczyk’s monograph Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into

Viktoria Tkaczyk is Professor of Media and Knowledge in the Department of Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thinking with Sound undertakes a historicisation of auditory neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field

Bildwelten des Wissens – volume 18. Museale Reste. Edited by Nina Samuel and Felix Sattler. Remnants are a challenge for the museum as an institution. They are ambiguous figures, and their attributions open up

Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collectionsWhat are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department

Irene Hilden’s PhD thesis on the Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) is now available, published by Leuven University Press.The book focuses on sound recordings produced under colonial conditions. It examines sound

The cultural studies scholar Britta Lange researched sound recordings of male prisoners of war from the Sound Archive of the Humboldt University of Berlin produced in German camps during the

Analysis of the historical practice of a university teaching collection, including the objects that still exist today.Author: Oliver Zauzig.This research paper is about the königliche Modellkammer (Royal Model Chamber) of

Kältebilder. Ästhetik und Erkenntnis am Gefrierpunkt (Ed. Matthias Bruhn)  Bildwelten des Wissens – Band 17 Edited by Katja Müller-Helle, Claudia Blümle, Horst Bredekamp and Matthias Bruhn As means of preservation, low-temperature technologies

The book title “Eine Frage der Perspektive” addresses several highly topical issues at the same time: On the one hand, the volume negotiates the gain of knowledge from an object

What are active materials? This book aims to introduce and redefine conceptions of matter by considering materials as entities that ›sense‹ and respond to their environment. By examining the modeling