Conference
Collecting Global Heritage
- Date
- Thursday 26 June 2025
- Time
- Address
- Wereldmuseum Leiden
Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are jointly organizing a networking event as part of the joint sector theme 'Cultural heritage and identity: collecting, management and transfer'. You are cordially invited to attend.
The restitution of objects and collections and the decolonization of the institutions to which these collections belong are high on the agenda. Through co-creation and new, digital techniques, collections managers want to open up collections in a more equitable and inclusive way. These trends require us to reflect not only on our practice as researchers, but also on our conceptual understanding of the collection, management and transfer of cultural heritage.
What is the place of cultural heritage collections in our research? How is the digitization of these collections changing our research practice? And to what extent do archival and research infrastructures - digital and physical - influence our approach to heritage collections?
On 26 June we would like to discuss these questions and share experiences with you, together with partners from the heritage sector. We will start with four presentations followed by a panel discussion and debate with the audience.
- Mariana de Campos Françozo (Universiteit Leiden) - Indigenous South America in Museum Collections: Evolving Research Perspectives
- Quinsy Gario (Vrije Universiteit) - In Plain Sight: Dutch Afro-Caribbean art practices and Dutch colonial collections
- Alicia Schrikker (Universiteit Leiden) - Colonial Collections and the Repatriation of Objects
- Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit) - Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage
Before the programme and during the break there will be an opportunity to visit a poster market. Do you conduct research with cultural heritage collections and want to share a ‘best practice’? Advanced (Re)MA students, PhD students and researchers can submit a poster proposal by 28 May and will receive confirmation and further instructions by 6 June.
Do you know anyone who would be interested in this afternoon? Feel free to forward this invitation but remember that places are limited.
We hope to see you on 26 June.
Michiel van Groesen – Universiteit Leiden
Norah Karrouche – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam