2023
Online network meeting on 25.10.23: planning meeting on international info meeting in February 2024
At the international information meetings interested international participants will be able to find out about research possibilities in
German institutions, museums, archives, etc. and to get an overview of the German funding landscape.
The first step of the information meeting(s) should be to present the diverse structural contexts in Germany in general, i.e. federalism, private and public funding bodies, etc., as well as concrete individual programmes which allow central project participation or even the submission of applications by
international project partners.
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Online network meeting on 12.06.2023:
These were our presentations:
- Milena Täschner (LWL-Kulturstiftung): Vorstellung Förderschwerpunkt (Post)Kolonialismus der LWL-Kulturstiftung
- Christiane Bürger und Sahra Rausch (KET): Vorstellung Koordinierungsstelle koloniales Erbe Thüringen
- Alexander Sachse und Sarah Wassermann (Museumsverband Brandenburg): Globale Geschichten in Brandenburger Museen mit Museum Digital
- Larissa Schmid, Lars Müller und John Woitkowitz (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin): Vorstellung des Projekts „IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histories and Digital Collections"
- Nadine Schmitt (Universität Köln): Vorstellung SocioHub
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2022
Online network meeting on 22.11.22:
This was our programme:
- Katja Hofmann (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden):
- Cindy Zalm (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden):
- Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio (The National Archives of Finland/ Sámi Archives, Inari)
- Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren-Brussels):
- Rita Gaspar und Juliana Alves (The Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto):
- Angela Kailus (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg):
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Online network meeting of the entire network on 21.06.2022
with the following topics:
- Introduction to the new DFG funding line VIGO (https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2022/info_wissenschaft_22_18/index.html)
- Break-out sessions on the topics: CCC Portal; planning of an international information and network meeting; decolonising the GND; Third-party funding for the archive guide to the German Colonial Past; ideas and overview on third party funding applications
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Meeting with colleagues from Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. on 24.2.2022
A (virtual) meeting with colleagues from Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. took place on 24 February 2022. We would like to thank them for the exchange on Wikimedia's activities in the field of colonial contexts.
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2021
Series of workshops organised by the network's Working Group on International Cooperation about collaborative digitisation projects.
Abstracts of the events as well as "takeaways and recommendations" can be found here.
- Shared experiences of working with databases for shared history
Friday, November 12
Chair: Paul Turnbull (University of Tasmania); Isabelle Reimann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Repatriation in Australia: the lessons learned, the work yet to be done
Friday, October 29
First Session
Speakers: Michael Pickering (National Museum of Australia), Lyndon Ormond-Parker (Cultural Heritage Expert with Alyawarra decent, a.o. Honorary Senior Lecturer at Australian National University)
Chair: Paul Turnbull (University of Tasmania)
Second Session
Speakers: Leah Umbagai (Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation); Kim Doohan (independent consultant anthropologist)
Chairs: Richard Kuba (Frobenius-Institute); Martin Porr (University of Western Australia) - The Global Database of Kenyan Objects of the International Inventories Programme (IIP)
Friday, October 1
Speakers: Juma Ondeng (Principal Curator at the regional museum in western Kenya, Kitale Museum - National Museums of Kenya, founding member of the IIP); Jim Chuchu (Director of The Nest Collective, member of the IIP)
Chair: Larissa Förster (German Lost Art Foundation) - Connect – Comprehend – Communicate. The „Amazonas future lab“
Friday, September 17
Speakers: Andrea Scholz (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin); Thiago da Costa Oliveira (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin); Fidel Thomet (FH Potsdam)
Chair: Katja Kaiser (Museum of Natural History Berlin)
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Workshop "Openness vs ethics?" July 8, 2021
We discuss with researchers how access to digitised materials with ethically difficult content should look like:
How do we ensure that people in the countries and regions where the research took place know about and can use digitised sources? What are the ethical implications of digitising material that was created in colonial contexts and in many cases reflects the thought patterns, attitudes and knowledge systems of its time/culture, with all its racisms, power-political distortions and hurtful abuses? And how can the societies of origin or the Global South as well as the needs of researchers be included in these decisions and discussions so that colonial structures of the knowledge system are not revived here?
Inputs by:
- Matthias Harbeck (FID SKA)
- Alexis von Poser (Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK)
- Aisha Othman (FID Afrikastudien)
- Michi Knecht (DGSKA-Vorstand)
- Hillary Howes (Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies, Canberra/AUS
- Emelihter Kihleng (Pohnpei Historic Preservation Program, Federated States of Micronesia)
- Magueye Kassé (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal)
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2020
Network for sustainable research structures in colonial contexts founded
23.11.20. The first DFG roundtable on cooperation in the field of infrastructure and provenance research projects on collections and holdings from the colonial era took place virtually. Approx. 40 participants agreed on networking. FID SKA and FID African Studies involved. Follow-up meeting planned for February 2021. Click here for the press release in German.