Conference News: Engaging with Global Heritage Debates

Our team has recently contributed to two international conversations on museum practices and colonial legacies.

Noémie Étienne presented online at the study day Les choses des lointains: artefacts, échantillons et spécimens des colonies jusqu’en métropole (16e–18e siècles), organised by the Université Paris-Est Créteil. In her talk, De quoi “exotique” est-il le nom ? Étudier, exposer, et nommer les collections, she explored how the concept of the “exotic” shapes the ways in which collections are studied, displayed, and named, reflecting on the politics of representation in early modern and contemporary contexts.
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Meanwhile, Ruby Satele Asiata participated in the workshop Human Remains in University Collections – Comparison and Entanglements, hosted in Germany as part of the EUCOR – The European Campus network. Her contribution formed part of a wider dialogue on the care, ethics, and repatriation of ancestral remains in academic and museum collections.
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