Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Adenauerallee 131, 53111 Bonn

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Welcome

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Keynote by Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer, University of Utrecht: Missionary Collections as Laboratories for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue: Problems and Possibilities

8:00 PM Dinner with Conference Participants

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Haus Völker und Kulturen, Arnold-Janssen-Straße 26, 53757 Sankt Augustin

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Guided Tour of the Exhibitions at the Haus Völker und Kulturen

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Workshop Mission and Museum – Comparative Examples

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Workshop Changing Concepts of Mission

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Workshop Beyond Essentialisms – Art as Dialogue between Religions

6:30 PM – 8 PM Filmscreening and Discussion: A Goddess in Motion (María Lionza in Barcelona

Thursday, September 12, 2024
Haus Völker und Kulturen, Arnold-Janssen-Straße 26, 53757 Sankt Augustin

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Filmscreening and Discussion: re/despair – Painful Encounters in German Museums

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM Workshop Histories of Collecting as Histories of Knowledge

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Panel Discussion Towards Futures of Missionary Collections

WORKSHOPS

Mission and Museum – Comparative Examples
The workshop Mission and Museum in Global Perspective will look at case studies from Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Nigeria and explore how the handling of missionary collections has changed against the background of a changing understanding of mission and the decolonial critique of museums.

Moderator: Dr. Markus Scholz, Philosophical-Theological College of St. George

Speakers:
– Nina van der Werf, Steyl Mission Museum: Mission and Museum – Comparative Examples
– Dr. Claudia Augustat, Weltmuseum Wien: Can digital repatriation matter? Thinking with landscapes
– Dr. John Kelechi Ugwuanyi, University of Bonn, and Ambrose Onyemaechi Ezema, University of Nigeria, Nsukka:
Missionary Collection for Who and for What? The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Heritage by the Okunerere Adoration Ministry, Nigeria
– Polen, SVD Museum N.N.

Changings Concepts of Mission
The workshop Changing Concepts of Mission aims to create a transdisciplinary basis for understanding mission as a dynamic, situational and economically, politically and culturally interwoven practice.

Moderator: Dr. Rafaela Eulberg, University of Bonn

Speakers:
– Dr. Jan Hüsgen, German Lost Art Foundation: ”good Christians and good & useful objects” Moravian mission and slave emancipation in the Caribbean
– Prof. Dr. Chris Wingfield, University of East Anglia
– Christian Tauchner SVD, St. Augustin Steyler Mission Institute
– Heide Lienert-Emmerlich, St. Ottilien

Beyond Essentialisms – Art as Dialogue between Religions
The workshop Beyond Essentialisms – Art as a Dialogue between Religions Looks at art from Africa, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe and asks whether and how artistic creation can negotiate and translate religious and cultural understandings.

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Stosch, University of Bonn

Speakers:
– Dr. Zachary Kingdon, National Museum Scotland (Senior Curator, Africa Collections)
Religion, Creative Agency, and Critique within Mozambican Makonde Migrant Communities in 20th Century Tanzania

– Rev. Dr. Christian Weber, mission 21 (Protestant Theology)
Can artistic creation negotiate and translate religious and cultural understandings?

– Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann, Religious Studies (University of Bonn), and Yulia Lokshina, documentary filmmaker (University of Babelsberg)

– Naomie Ratunde University of Bonn (Latin American Studies)
Materialities, Memories and Mission – On the Ayoréode Collection at the BASA Museum

Histories of Collecting as Histories of Knowledge
The workshop Histories of Collecting as Histories of Knowledge takes an in-depth look at the nexus of collecting and knowledge creation and discusses the historical inclusions and exclusions in the production and documentation of knowledge in religious contact and conflict zones.

Moderator: Dr. Martin Radermacher, Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr-University Bochum

Speakers:
– Dr. Oliver Lueb, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Head of Research, Curator, Oceania Collection)
Missionary traces in secular collections – Experiences from preparing an exhibition on missionary collections in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Kulturen der Welt, Cologne

– Dr. Peter Rohrbacher, Austrian Academy of Sciences (History of Science)
P. Wilhelm Koppers in Central India: Theoretical reflections on his collecting activities in 1938/39

– Dr. Harald Grauer, Anthropos Institute (Catholic Theology)
A look behind the façade of an institution…

– Amélie Roussillon, Utrecht University (Mission PNG)
Collecting and documenting Abelam: rethinking the role of Father August Knorr (SVD) in Papua New Guinea

– Prof. Dr. Peter Pels, University of Leiden (Anthropology and Sociology of Africa)

PANEL DISCUSSION - TOWARDS FUTURES OF MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS
What can we learn from a critical re-examination of missionary collections as histories of religious contact and conflict? How can we unpack their political, economic and epistemological entanglements past and present? And can they become laboratories for intercultural and interreligious dialogue?

Moderator: Jun. Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, University of Bonn

Participants:
– Richard Tsogang Fossi, Technische Universität Berlin
– Dr. Ramona Jelinek-Menke, Philipps University Marburg
– Dr. Stanislav Grodz, SVD
– Prof. Dr. Karoline Noack, University of Bonn
– Valerie Viban, Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e.V.