International Conference: „From history to present: Dealing with museum collections from colonial contexts in Hesse and beyond“

Von Montag, 23.09.2024 bis Dienstag, 24.09.2024

International Conference

„From history to present: Dealing with museum collections from colonial contexts in Hesse and beyond“

Sep 23 — 24, 2024

The conference is an outcome of the German Lost Art Foundation funded project ‘Provenance Research on the East Africa Collection of the Museum Witzenhausen’. Co-financed by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Arts, it is hosted by the Museum Wiesbaden (MuWi) in cooperation with the project implementing partners German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) and fahari yetu Tanzania. The conference aims to advance the academic and public dialogue on how to deal with colonial history and heritage in Hesse, Germany, Tanzania and beyond.

Date and time:

September 23—24, 2024
09.00—18.00 hrs

Venue:

Museum Wiesbaden
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
65185 Wiesbaden
Germany

Please register until September 7, 2024 (deadline) via: 

The final program, streaming link and more information coming soon here: https://museum-wiesbaden.de/tagung-2024

List of contributors:

Noemie Arazi / Deonis Mgumba, Royal Museum for Central Africa Brussels/fahari yetu Tanzania

Anne Brandstetter, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Department of Anthropology and African Studies

Rainer Brömer, Philipps-University Marburg, Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine

André Burmann / Markus Scholz, Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology Frankfurt

Hans Peter Hahn, Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Ina Heumann, Museum of Natural History Berlin

Marion Hulverscheidt / Linda Knop / Maximilian Preuss, Kassel University, Department of History

Michael Kraus, University of Goettingen, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA)

Jan Kuever, DITSL Witzenhausen, fahari yetu Tanzania

Richard Kuba, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frobenius Institute

Eva Künkler, Leibniz-University Hannover, Department of History

Eliabu Mbonimpa, fahari yetu Tanzania

Sebastian Möllers, Museen Stade

Martin Nadarzinski, Lippe State Museum Detmold

Josefine Neef, Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt

Kepha Ngakonda, Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Tanzania – Southern Diocese Archives Department

Jimson Sanga, fahari yetu Tanzania/University of Iringa

Dagmar Schweitzer de Palacios, Philipps-University Marburg, Ethnographic Collection

Valence Silayo, University of Dar es Salaam/Linden Museum Stuttgart

Mareike Späth, Lower Saxony State Museum Hannover (NLMH)

Holger Stöcker, University of Goettingen, Seminar of Medieval and Modern History

Herry Titus, fahari yetu Tanzania