Presentation of the ERC-funded project “Global Conservation: Histories and Theories” (GloCo)

by Noémie Etienne and Ruby Satele Asiata at the Collections and Collecting Lunchtime Seminar organised by Dr. Brooke Penaloza-Patzak and Dr. Jaanika Vider at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.

Round Table Collections: Rethinking our Narratives and Practices

with Prof. Noémie Etienne and Dr. Honoré Tchatchouang Ngoupeyou at the AURORA workshop at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille.

Guest Lecture: Vegetable and Artificial Intelligence: Conceptions of the Non-Human Other in 20th and 21st Century Art

by Dr. Chonja Lee (LMU, Munich) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Location: online via Zoom

Panel discussion: Corpses, Casts, and Copyrights. Displaying Human Remains

with Profs. Noémie Etienne, Maarten Delbeke (ETH Zurich), Bärbel Küster (University of Zurich) and Urte Krass (University of Bern & Collegium Helveticum), organised by Urte Krass and Maarten Delbeke at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich.

Guest Lecture: The New and the Dead Man: Fit Workers and Reactionary Cadavers in Vienna, ca. 1920

by Prof. Birgit Nemec (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Location: online via Zoom

Guest Lecture: Conservation and the Transformations of Museum Collections

by Prof. Carolin Bohlmann (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Location: online via Zoom

Guest Lecture: Casts in the Anthropological Collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna

by Dr. Margit Berner (Natural History Museum Vienna) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Location: online via Zoom

Guest Lecture: Talking with the Dead: Engaging with Narratives of Women Inside National Archives

by Dr. Gladys Kalichini (Zambia) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Location: online via Zoom

Book Launch: Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of The Iron Curtain (Columbia University Press, 2023)

by Till Hilmar with a panel discussion by researchers from the University of Vienna, CEU and IWM. The event was moderated by Anna-Marie Kroupová (University of Vienna), with contributions by Anna Durnová, Dorit Geva, Misha Glenny and Philipp Ther.

Panel Discussion: Kultur. Nachhaltig. Leben as part of the Kultur. Nachhaltig. Leben – Konferenz zur ganzheitlichen Entwicklung von Kultur(Erbe)

organized by Edu.Cult and UNESCO Austria.

Mariama de Brito Henn presents her research project Diaspora Aesthetics: Ritual dress in the Afro-Religions of the Americas as Alternative Archive at the Collections and Collecting Lunchtime Seminar organised by Dr. Brooke Penaloza-Patzak and Dr. Jaanika Vider at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna..

Guest-lecture The Logic of Distribution and the Lives of Contemporary Art by Dr. Niko Vicario (Amherst College, USA) as part of the lecture series Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Lecture The Elephant in the Fondue: A Swiss (Re)naissance and the Entanglement of Spaces by Prof. Noémie Etienne as part of the 53th Basler Renaissancekolloquium «meta-renaissance(s)» at the Departement Geschichte und Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Universität Basel.

Anna-Maria Kroupová presents her work about Arts, Politics, Exhibitions: The Role of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists in Nation-Building in post-WW1 Czechoslovakia at the international conference for the Centennial of the state purchase of French Art (1923-2023) at the Convent of Saint Agnes of Bohemia, National Gallery in Prague.

Lecture on Global Conservation: Missing Histories of Care by Prof. Noémie Etienne at the Brill Nuncius Seminar Histories of Conservation Science and Scientific Conservation after World War II organised by  Sven Dupré and Esther van Duijn at the University of Utrecht. Full programme available here.

Lecture by Prof. Noémie Etienne at the Visual Studies Research Institute of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles, USA).

Mariama de Brito Henn discuss the topic of Raubkunst und die Glaubwürdigkeit von Museen. Koloniale Kunst zwischen Konservierung und Rückgabe at the Ö1 Punkt Eins Radio, moderated by Marlene Nowotny.

Guest-lecture Heritage Rapatriations to Nepal by Erin L. Thompson and Alisha Sijapati as part of the lecture series Heritage & Hybridity organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.

Guest-lecture by Mabafokeng Hoeane as part of the lecture series Heritage & Hybridity

Guest-lecture Contested Conservation by Prof. Noémie Etienne (University of Vienna) and Dr. Lotte Arndt (TU Berlin)

as part of the digital colloquium The Politics of Conservation organised by the department Humanities of Nature, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (project Museums and Society – Mapping the Social).

The video recording of the lecture is available here.

Guest-lecture Collecting Practices, Pedigree, and Provenances of African works of Art by Yaëlle Biro as part of the lecture series Heritage & Hybridity organised by Prof. Noémie Etienne.