Friday, October 25th

9.30–10 a.m.: Arrival & check-in
10–10.30 a.m.: Opening

- Videos with welcoming remarks from Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media and Professor Dr hc mult. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

- Professor Dr Lars-Christian Koch, Director of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin)

- Professor Dr Moritz Wullen, Director of the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

10.30–11.10 a.m.: Introduction

- Dr Paola Ivanov, PD, curator of the East-, North East-, Central and South African Collections, Ethnologisches Museum
- Dr Ludger Derenthal, Kunstbibliothek, Head of Collection of Photography

- Professor Shamsoun Khamis Kafi Tiyah, Chairman of the Pan-Nuba Council

11.10–11.50 a.m.: Keynote

- Sudan’s Identity Politics, Violence, and Nuba Resilience / Dr Guma Kunda Komey Kalo, Pan-Nuba Council, Associate Professor of Peace and Development Studies and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Bahri, Khartoum

11.50 a.m.–1.30 p.m.: Lunch break

1.30–1.50 p.m.: Multiple Photographic Contexts and Working with Archives / Moderator: Dr Ludger Derenthal

- Working with a Working Archive – Collaboratively cataloguing Riefenstahl’s photographic estate / Katrin Peters-Klaphake, research associate, Kunstbibliothek, Collection of Photography

1.50–2.10 p.m.
- Sudan & photography / Ala Kheir, photographer, educator and curator

2.10–2.30 p.m.
- The Allegories of Leni Riefenstahl’s Photobooks / Professor Dr Zoë S. Strother, Riggio Professor of African Art, Columbia University

2.30–3 p.m.: Q & A
3–3.30 p.m.: Coffee break

3.30–3.50 p.m.: Multiple Filmic/Artistic Contexts and Working with Archives / Moderator: Dr Valerie Hänsch

- Tracing, Sorting, Identifying: Riefenstahl’s film recordings of the Nuba mountains as holdings in the Deutsche Kinemathek / Anke Wilkening, film restorer, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

3.50–4.10 p.m.
- Hussein Shariffe and The South-East Nuba: A case study in digital archiving, restitution and reparation / Professor Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film, King’s College London

4.10–4.30 p.m.
- Artistic Reflections on the Digital Nuba Archive: Uncovering loss and ancient revival / Khalid Shatta, visual artist

4.30–5 p.m.: Q & A
5–5.30 p.m.: Coffee break

5.30–7 p.m.: Film screening and discussion with the director / "Beats of the Antonov", directed by Hajooj Kuka, 68 minutes, 2014

Saturday, October 26th

9.30–9.50 a.m.: Collaboration, Knowledge Production and Multiple Epistemologies – Panel I / Moderator: Dr Mohamed A. G. Bakhit

- Collaboration in Times of Crisis: Ethics, affects and agencies in the co-production of knowledge / Dr Valerie Hänsch, postdoctoral researcher, Ethnologisches Museum and Dr Paola Ivanov, PD, curator of the East-, North East-, Central and South African Collections, Ethnologisches Museum

9.50–10.10 a.m.
- Identifying Criteria and Classifying the Nuba Images of Leni Riefenstahl: Challenges and processes / Dr Guma Kunda Komey Kalo, Pan-Nuba Council, Associate Professor of Peace and Development Studies and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Bahri, Khartoum

10.10–10.40 a.m.: Q & A
10.40–11.10 a.m.: Coffee break

11.10–11.30 a.m.: Collaboration, Knowledge Production and Multiple Epistemologies – Panel II / Discussant: Professor Dr Annie E. Coombes, Emerita Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London / Moderator: Dr Valerie Hänsch

- Decolonising Riefenstahl’s Work on the Kau Nyaro People: Perspectives of the photographed people between the past and the present / Dr Mohamed A. G. Bakhit, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum

11.30–11.50 a.m.
- Visual Deconstruction of a Sudanese-German Connected Heritage / Hajooj Kuka, filmmaker

11.50 a.m.–12.20 p.m.: Q & A
12.20–2 p.m.: Lunch break

2–2.20 p.m.: (Re-)Claiming Heritage – Panel I / Moderator: Dr Guma Kunda Komey Kalo

- Sudan Memory: Lessons learned / Professor Marilyn Deegan, King’s College London

2.20–2.40 p.m.
- Nuba Material Cultures: Calabashes and funeral rituals in the Masakin and Kau Nyaro region / Dr Towhid Khamis Angalo Tabasa, postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Dalanj

2.40–3 p.m.: Q & A

3–3.20 p.m.: (Re-)Claiming Heritage – Panel II / Moderator: Dr Paola Ivanov

- Claiming Belonging: Nuba cultural festivals and creative practices of resistance / Mohamed Ahmed Farah Salih, research assistant and video journalist and Dr Valerie Hänsch, postdoctoral researcher, Ethnologisches Museum

3.20–3.40 p.m.
- Creating with Purpose: Participatory art and resilience in the Nuba mountains, a contemporary context and experience / Professor Khalid Ibrahim Kodi, Professor of the Practice, Art + Design, College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University

3.40–4 p.m.
- Nuba Centre for Culture, Heritage and Arts / Professor Shamsoun Khamis Kafi Tiyah, Chairman of Pan-Nuba Council

4–4.30 p.m.: Q & A
4.30–5 p.m.: Coffee break
5–5.30 p.m.: Final discussion
5.30–6 p.m.: Handover of Digital Images