12.12.2018
10:00-10:30 Welcome
Prof. Marion Ackermann (General Director, Dresden State Art Collections - SKD)
Uwe Gaul (Staatssekretär im Sächsischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst)
Nanette Snoep (Director, State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - SES)
10:30-12:30 Pacific
Linnae Pohatu (Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, Aotearoa New Zealand):
Losing control: Museums building partnerships with Maori and Pacific communities
Amber Aranui (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa):
Restitution or a loss to science? Understanding the importance of returning Māori ancestral remains
Phil Gordon (Australian Museum):
The evolving role of repatriation and Aboriginal cultural objectives
Dr. Michael Pickering (National Museum of Australia):
Call me! Museums liaising with Indigenous peoples in the 21st century
Lunch break
13:30-15:30 Africa
Prof. Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape, South Africa):
Restitution, return and the postethnographic
Dr. Jeremy Silvester (Museums Association of Namibia):
The return of the power stones
Esther Utjiua Muinjangue (University of Namibia):
The significance of rituals in the repatriation process of human remains: A Herero perspective
Prof. Peju Layiwola (University of Lagos, Nigeria):
Benin art as contested heritage
Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Europe
Dr. Emmanuel Kasarhérou (Museé du Quai Branly, France):
A case of restitution of human remains from France to New Caledonia: Act of reparation or bone on contention?
Dr. Lissant Bolton (British Museum, UK):
Knowing and not knowing about collections: Perspectives from Vanuatu
Prof. Wayne Modest (Research Centre for Material Culture, Leiden, Netherlands):
Staying with the trouble: Ethnographic museums and the question of repair
13.12.2018
09:30-11:30 Germany
Dr. Felicity Bodenstein (TU Berlin, Germany):
Incomplete returns and desires for restitution: The case of the Benin Bronzes before and after Nigerian independence
Prof. Barbara Plankensteiner (Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, Germany):
Challenges in establishing and caretaking of a multilateral relationship: The Benin Dialogue
Dr. Paola Ivanov (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany):
Sharing the heritage of colonial violence: Towards a collaborative reactivation of the Tanzania collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin
Dr. Larissa Förster (CARMAH, Berlin, Germany):
Restitution, repatriation, reconciliation - What’s at stake?
Coffee break
12:00-14:00 Germany
Sarah Fründt (Freiburg University, Germany):
Far behind, but catching up?! Debates on repatriation and restitution in German institutions
Gesa Grimme:
Where to start? Systemizing provenance research on collections from colonial contexts
Dr. Andreas Winkelmann (Brandenburg Medical School, Germany):
Experience with repatriation of human remains from Germany to Australia, Namibia, and Paraguay
Dr. Claudia Andratschke (State Museum Hanover, Germany):
The project „Provenance Research on Non-European Collections in Lower Saxony“ – a joint attempt to deal with a difficult legacy
Lunch break
15:00-16:30 SES-SKD
Prof. Gilbert Lupfer (SKD, Germany):
Sensitive matters of provenance research at the Dresden State Art Collections
Dr. Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider (SES, Germany):
Our common histories and the importance of immaterial restitution
Dr. Philipp Schorch (SES, Germany):
Restitution as ethnographic method