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