Mobilizing Heritage in Theory and Practice

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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, art/science? 

Organized by Göteborgs Universitet (CCHS, Global Studies, Historical Studies) and Världskulturmuseet

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 (Depart. of Historical Studies, GU)

9.40 “Restitution to the Yaquis, trying to understand the different layers of a conflict”

Adriana Muñoz (Museum of World Culture and Depart. of Historical Studies, GU)

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, GU)

11.15 “Mobilizing biodiversity as heritage”

Christine D. Bacon (Depart. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, GU)

11.40 Questions and Final discussion

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