Alia Rayyan: Practice of Fissures. Rethinking Participatory Art Practice in Jerusalem
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
Publication of “The Resonant Museum”
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 publication “Heritage Futures” is shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize 2023
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.
Magdalena Buchczyk: Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum
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: Thinking with Sound – A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
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
New volume in the series „Bildwelten des Wissens“
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
Margareta von Oswald: Working Through Colonial Collections. An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin
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
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive. Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive’s Acoustic Legacies by Irene Hilden
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