Friday 21st of October
9:30
Eva Maria Troelenberg, Damiana Otoiu & Felicity Bodenstein
Introduction
Biographies and objects
Chair: Costanza Caraffa
10:00
Fabrizio Federici (Rome)
Baroque restitutions: the donations and re-uses of Francesco Gualdi
10:30
Ewa Manikowska (Warsaw)
Entangled Identities. The Recovery of Eastern European Photographic Collections
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30
Ulrike Saß (Hamburg)
Saving lives with artworks. Do objects really want their stories to be told?
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-14:00
The subject of return: between objects and bodies
Chair: Annie Coombes
14:00
Noémie Étienne (Bern)
Life-Casts, Relics, and Human Remains. The Return of Museum Tools
14:30
Christopher Sommer (Wellington)
Of Phrenology, reconciliation and veneration – An object biography of the life cast of Māori chief Tangatahara
15:00
Clarissa Förster (Cologne)
The Long Way Home. On the Biography of returned objects/subjects
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00
Cressida Fforde, Major Sumner (Canberra)
The Dead or Artefacts: contention in the definition, retention and return of Ngarrindjeri Old People
16:30
Damiana Otoiu (Bucharest)
"Can biological history be determined?" South African Museums in the "New" Era of Genomics
Keynote
17:30
Bénédicte Savoy (Berlin)
Le droit des objets
Saturday 22nd of October
Return and afterlives of objects
Chair: Anna Seiderer
10:00
Christoph Frank (Mendrisio)
Genocide, Capitalization and Amnesia: An eighteenth-century French sculpture and its unexpected return to life
10:30
Jenny Graham (Plymouth)
The Van Eycks' Ghent Altarpiece and the Second World War: Restitution and Restoration as Cultural Patrimony
11:00
Eugenia Kisin (New York)
Resources and Returns: Totem Pole Afterlives in the Anthropocene
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00
Ruth E. Iskin (Jerusalem)
The Other Nefertiti: Symbolic Restitution in Contemporary Art
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-14:00
14:00
Lucas Lixinski (Sydney)
Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses in the Restitution of the Axum Stele (Ethiopia)
Objects in Intermediate "States"
Chair: Christian Fuhrmeister
14:30
Elena Franchi (Vicence)
Contentious and Missing Objects: the Landau-Finaly Collection in Florence and the EGELI Archives
15:00
Andrzej Jakubowski (Warsaw)
Failed States, de facto Regimes and the Return of Cultural Objects: the Role of Safe Havens
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00
Erin Thompson (New York)
Return to the Scene of the Crime: What Does the Future Hold for Looted Antiquities from Syria and Iraq?
Keynote
16:30
Laurajane Smith (Canberra)
Objects, agency and power: the pragmatic politics of heritage
Concluding discussion