Dr. Mirjam Brusius
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
9.30 AM Welcome: Mirjam Brusius, Subhadra Das, Alice Stevenson, James Robertson (co-organizers)
10.30-11.30 AM Chair: Subhadra Das
Alice Stevenson (UK): A very Museum Object. The Dislocation of Egyptian Heritage
Latika Gupta (India): Shifting terrain. Meaning-making in the Himalayas, between Region, Religion and the Nation
11.30-12.00 AM Break
12.00-1.00 PM Chair: Alice Stevenson
Rachel Engmann (Ghana/USA): What is known (and not known). Nineteenth-Century Asante Islamic Talismans in the British Museum
Jean-Sébastien Guibert (Antilles, Martinique): West Indies Heritage in Question. Sugar and Slavery Artefacts in British Museum Collections
1.00-2.00 PM Break
2.00-3.00 PM Chair: Mirjam Brusius
SKYPE: Sani Yakubu Adam (Nigeria/South-Africa): Benin Plaque and Competing Narratives of African Art
Maia Nuku (New Zealand/USA): Unpacking Cosmologies
3.00-4.00 PM Chair: James Robertson
Mirjam Brusius (UK/Germany): A Flood Tablet from the Middle East, and a Flood of Questions
Heba Abd El Gawad (Egypt/UK): (Re)claiming the Rosetta. The Rosetta Stone and the (re)writing of Egypt’s Modern History
4.00-4.30 PM Break
4.30-5.30 PM Chair: Subhadra Das
Leah Lui-Chivizhe (Australia): Repossessing the Gwaegal Shield and Healing Trauma
Siriporn Srisinurai (Thailand): Let Things classify. A case-study of relational Collections from Northeast Thailand
7.00 PM Conference dinner (for speakers and chairs, place tbc)
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
9.30-11.00 AM Chair: Mirjam Brusius
Skype: Laura Osorio (Mexico/UK): Amazonian Dolphin Teeth. Collecting During the Rubber Boom Genocide
Subhadra Das (UK): 'Fit' bodies and the Science of 'Race'. Re-membering the Parthenon
Sculptures
Golda Ha-Eiros (Namibia): Rhythms of Culture. Creating meaning of the African Drum in a contemporary World
11.00-11.30 AM Break
11.30-12.30 PM Chair: Alice Stevenson
Rachael Minott (UK/Jamaica): Head to Head (Taino sculptures from the Caribbean). 'Masculine' and 'Feminine' Approaches to Decolonisation
Jonathan Fine (Germany): Le don, qui n‘est pas un: King Njoya‘s Throne