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Archivieren, Sammeln und Ausstellen durch Rom*nja – eine widerständige Praxis?

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• 31.08.2023

Workshop: Kein Vergessen: Die Besetzung der TU Berlin durch Geflüchtete und die Gründung des “Antirassistischen Zentrums” 1991/1992 (No Forgetting: The Occupation of the TU Berlin by Refugees and the Foundation of the “Antiracist Center” 1991/1992)

Invitation to attend the workshop with Dr. Pegah Byroum-Wand , September 16, 12 a.m. to 3 p.m., within scope of the Dekoloniale festival , September 14–17, 2023, Universitätsarchiv – Universität der Künste Berlin

• workshop
• widerstand
• aktivismus
• antirassismus
• 29.08.2023

Workshop: Navigating Museum Careers: Pathways, Training and Communities, 1850-Now

Call for participation in the workshop "Navigating Museum Careers: Pathways, Training and Communities, 1850-Now", being held by Kate Hill and Claire Wintle within scope of the Making Museum Professionals network, December 4-5, 2023, Online, University of Brighton

• museumsarbeit
• workshop
• community
• 29.08.2023

Symposium: Curating through Conflict with Care

Our colleague Pegah Byroum-Wand will be part of the creative and power-critical documentation team of the “Curating through Conflict with Care” symposium being held in Berlin from August 4–6, 2023

• curating
• conflictmethodology
• care
• museumsarbeit
• processorientation
• conflict
• 03.08.2023

Conference: “Berlins Weg in die Moderne. Eine Stadt am Schnittpunkt kolonialer Warenströme und Sehnsüchte (1763–1918)” (Berlin's Path to Modernity. A City at the Intersection of Colonial Commodity Flows and Longings (1763-1918))

Invitation to the scholarly conference of being held by the HiKo_21 network with contributions from our PI Dr. Andrea Meyer and Prof. Dr. Albert Gouaffo (Dschang), September 28–29, 2023, Berlin

• kolonialismus
• berlin
• ausstellungen
• museums
• 25.07.2023

KuK -Tuesdays: Dislocation

Invitation to the KuK -Tuesdays event series, where our PI Andrea Meyer will be moderating a roundtable with Dr. Valika Smeulderszu, Onyekachi Wambu and Dr. Claire Wintle on Dislocations, Museums and Activism, on July 11 at 6:30 p.m., Department of Art History as Cultural History, TU Berlin

• museums
• activism
• widerstand
• aktivismus
• 30.06.2023

Publication: Atlas der Abwesenheit: Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland (Atlas of Absence: Cameroon's Cultural Heritage in Germany)

The new publication Atlas of Absence coordinated by Andrea Meyer (TU Berlin) and Bénédicte Savoy (TU Berlin) is available in open access

• museums
• kolonialismus
• kulturerbe
• sammlungen
• 27.06.2023

Symposium: Expressionism Revisited

Presented and moderated by our PI Andrea Meyer and Sol Izquierdo de la Viña (TU Berlin) as part of the workshops and panels being held at the International Symposium, June 1–3, 2023, Brücke Museum

• museums
• sammlungen
• dekonstruktion
• 14.06.2023

Lecture: Building the Digital Nation: Biometric IDs and Belonging in Contemporary India

A lecture by Prof. Dr. Vijayanka Nair, San Diego State University, on Friday, June 2, 2 p.m., Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40/41

• digitalisierung
• data
• 30.05.2023

International conference – Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland: Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven (Cameroon's Cultural Heritage in Germany: Insights and Perspectives)

Invitation to the international conference of the DFG research project “Umgekehrte Sammlungsgeschichte” (“Reverse Collection History”) being held by the Technische Universität Berlin and the Université de Dschangan, June 1-3, TU Berlin

• sammlungen
• museums
• kulturerbe
• provenienzforschung
• 26.05.2023

Launch: Art Doc Archive

Invitation to the public Launch of the Art Doc Archive, a software prototype that our postdoc Lukas Fuchsgruber helped to develop, on May 8, 2023, at 7p.m., Technologiestiftung Berlin (Grunewaldstraße 61–62, 10825 Berlin)

• archive
• Open Source
• 02.05.2023

Colloquium: The Politics of Conservation

The digital Humanties of Nature colloquium is beginning at 1 p.m. May 3 with a lecture by Dr. Mordecai Ogada, Conservation Solutions Afrika, on Green Colonialism: The New Empires"

• conservation
• naturschutz
• 02.05.2023

Workshop: Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion

Invitation to attend a workshop on museum work within the scope of the Making Museum Professionals network, with a presentation by our PI Dr. Andrea Meyer on “Modernizing the Museum – Initiatives and Crises of the German Museums Association (1917–1933),” May 23, Birkbeck, University of London

• museum
• workshop
• 21.04.2023

Conference: Sicher gestellt, verwahrt und verwaltet: Zum Umgang mit den Sammlungen zeitgenössischer deutscher Kunst des “Dritten Reichs“ (Secured, Stored and Managed: Dealing with the Collections of Contemporary German Art of the “Third Reich”)

Contribution by Dr. Andrea Meyer (TU Berlin) and Dr. Sabine Beneke (DHM Berlin) at the conference HALBwertZEIT: Zum Umgang mit “abgelaufenen” Sammlungen, April 21, 2023, Faculty of Design, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

• sammlungen
• museum
• 12.04.2023

The Activist Exhibition: Museen zwischen Widerstand und Vereinnahmung (Museums Between Resistance and Appropriation)

A panel discussion with Newroz Duman (Initiative 19 February Hanau), Mouctar Bah (Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh), Natalie Bayer (Director FHXB Museum), and Tahir Della (ISD), moderated by Pegah Byroum-Wand (Museums and Society – Mapping the Social), April 19, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin

• aktivismus
• museumsarbeit
• 28.03.2023

Workshop: “Decentering Collections: Power Critique in Collaborations and Digital Tools for Power Sharing”

Invitation to attend a workshop with Dr. Lennon Mhishi (Pitt Rivers), Dr. Pegah Byroum-Wand, and Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber (Museums and Society), April 4–5, at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

• workshop
• collection
• 23.03.2023

Talk: Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nach­haltigkeit (Digital Science Communication and Sustainability)

At the Digitaltag Kunstgeschichte , Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert (HeiCAD) and our postdoc Lukas Fuchsgruber will speak about “Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nach­haltigkeit” (Digital Science Communication and Sustainability) moderated by Angela Dreßen, on March 24, 11:30–12:30 p.m.

• 14.03.2023

Universities as gatekeepers of African History and Culture

Comment by Kofi Shakur on the open letter for the appointment of a W3-university professorship for Art and Visual Cultures of Africa at the Institute of Art History of Freie Universität Berlin

• 21.02.2023

New publication, "Image Archives in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism"

Chapter by Lukas Fuchsgruber in the publication "The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice", 2022

• archive
• 17.02.2023

Workshop: Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion

Call for participation in the workshop "Museum Work: Hierarchies and Barriers, Exclusion and Inclusion", being held by Kate Hill and Claire Wintle within scope of the Making Museum Professionals network, May 23, Birkbeck, University of London

• workshop
• museum
• 06.02.2023

"Weltbilder"

A website about the construction of otherness in art

• 16.01.2023

Workshop: Fermenting Data Canteen

Call for participation in a workshop being run by Lukas Fuchsgruber (Museums and Society), Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver (Aarhus University) and Lozana Rossenova (Open Science Lab TIB), February 1, 1:30 p.m -5:00 p.m., Berlin

• workshop
• data
• 10.01.2023

Software Prototyp: Art Doc Archive

Our postdoc researcher Lukas Fuchsgruber is helping to develop a new software prototype January 10, 2023

• software
• archive
• 10.01.2023

Podcast: Die koloniale Vergangenheit von Museen erforschen

Podcast: “Die koloniale Vergangenheit von Museen erforschen” (Investigating Museums’ Colonial Pasts) Episode with Mareike Vennen, Institute of Art Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, and Lennon Mhishi, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, in Meridian, research podcast of the Berlin Center for Global Engagement (BCGE) December 19, 2022

• museum
• podcast
• 19.12.2022

Student Publication on Museum Data

Students publish the booklet Museumsdaten analysieren: Beispiele und Prototypen (Analyzing Museum Data: Examples and Prototypes) to document a project seminar. December 14, 2022

• museum
• data
• 14.12.2022

New Publication on Diversity in Museums and Cultural Heritage

Article by Tahani Nadim and Chiara Garbellotto in the ethnography "Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage" , Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 2022

• museum
• kulturerbe
• 06.12.2022

Conference: Koloniales Afrika: Geschichten der Deutschen Gegenwart (Colonial Africa: Histories of the German Present)

Talk by Kofi Shakur at the 2022 Afrikagespräche (Talks about Africa) conference, December 10, 2022, December 9– 12, 2022, Hohenheim Convention Center, Stuttgart December 1, 2022

• tagung
• talk
• 01.12.2022

Talk: Instructing, Preserving, Infesting: Living and Deadly Environments of Collecting

Talk: Instructing, Preserving, Infesting: Living and Deadly Environments of Collecting Online talk given by Mareike Vennen in the lecture series " Instructing Colonial Natural History " on November 30, 2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• archive
• museum
• collection
• 29.11.2022

Interview: Museums and Society - Mapping the Social

Interviews with Prof. Dr. Tahani Nadim, Dr. Pegah Byroum-Wand, and Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber on the challenges presented by the project, on working with civil society, and positions on discrimination critique and diversity; films made by the Berlin University Alliance

• interview
• museum
• 22.11.2022

Online-Diskussion: #Twitter - geht's noch? (What’s Up with #Twitter?)

With contributions from Lukas Fuchsgruber, Berit Glanz, Jasmin Mickein, and Martin Zierold in the Twitterspace of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, November 22, 6 p.m. Social media talk

• Social Media
• talk
• 22.11.2022

Conference: „Besucher*innenforschung digital“ (Digital User Research)

Contribution from Prof. Dr. Patricia Rahemipour and Kathrin Grotz at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Netzwerk Besucher*innenforschung (User Research Network), November 14-15, 2022, Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.

• museum
• tagung
• 13.11.2022

Seminar: Archivieren, Sammeln und Ausstellen durch Rom*nja – eine widerständige Praxis? (Archiving, Collecting, and Exhibiting by Rom*nja – a Practice of Resistance?)

The seminar is being held by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Lukas Fuchsgruber from the research project Museums & Society for bachelor’s and master’s Art Studies students at TU Berlin.

• archive
• seminar
• 07.11.2022

Workshop: Vom kritischen Vermitteln und Verlernen im Museum

Talk by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Daniela Bystron at the workshop “Colonial Heritage – Museal Reflections: A Workshop to Critically Question Museums Together,” November 7, 2022, 1:30–3:00 p.m., Wolfsburg.

• workshop
• talk
• museum
• 01.11.2022

Talk: Pathways of Affect: Mapping Transcultural Emotional Journeys of Visitors in Museum Spaces

A paper presented by Ranjamrittika Bhowmik at the IV International Congress Literary Geographies, “Social and Pedagogical Views of Written Cities,” October 26–28, 2022, University of Valencia

• vortrag
• talk
• museum
• 29.10.2022

Schöne Lecture: Mind the Gap: Data Absence, Data Silence, and Data Bias

Lecture given by Professor Julianne Nyhan on November 14, 2022, 7:00 p.m., TU Berlin, in cooperation with the Richard Schöne Society for Museum History

• vortrag
• talk
• 26.10.2022

Seminar: Kunst oder historisches Zeugnis? Malerei aus der Zeit des NS im Depot des DHM(Art or Historical Evidence? Paintings from the third reich in the Storage of the DHM)

Dr. Andrea Meyer in cooperation with Dr. Sabine Beneke, Head of Collection for Art Paintings and Sculptures at the German Historical Museum for students in the Masters program Art Studies at TU Berlin

• seminar
• collection
• 20.10.2022

Workshop: Fermenting/Curating Data

Talk given by Lukas Fuchsgruber at the workshop “Curating/Fermenting Data: Data Workflows for Semantic Web Applications,” October 8, 2022, NordiCHI 2022 pre-conference, Aarhus, Denmark

• workshop
• data
• 20.10.2022

Master’s theses being supervised by Dr. Andrea Meyer

• theses
• university
• 15.10.2022

Talk: Mining Colonial Museums: Data, Archives, Storerooms

With contributions by Dr. Mareike Vennen, Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber, Dr. Lennon Mhishi, and Dr. Yann LeGall on July 5, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Berlin Science Week , Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

• vortrag
• talk
• 27.09.2022

New publication on reappraisal of colonial heritage at the Brücke Museum

Article by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Daniela Bystron in the edited volume “Das Museum dekolonisieren? Kolonialität und museale Praxis in Berlin” (Decolonizing the Museum? Coloniality and Museum Practice in Berlin), 2022

• museum
• 19.08.2022

New publication on data policy of collecting and archiving

Article by Lukas Fuchsgruber in the volume "Networks of Care. Politiken des (Er)haltens und (Ent)sorgens", (Politics of Holding and Maintaining, and Caring and Disposing), July 18, 2022

• archive
• 18.07.2022

New publication on museums and virtual reality

Article by Lukas Fuchsgruber “Soziale virtuelle Realität als zukünftige Museumstechnologie?” (Social Virtual Reality as a Future Museum Technology?) in Vigia: Zeitschrift für Technologie und Gesellschaft 1, no. 1 (2022)

• museum
• virtualreality
• 18.07.2022

Audiowalk: "Läsuren"

Talk by Lukas Fuchsgruber or an audiowalk put on by the Urbane Dermatologie collective, Osten Festival July 1-17 2022, Bitterfeld.

• audiowalk
• 15.07.2022

Talk “Von alten Präparaten, blinden Passagieren u. toxischen Verbindungen: Wissensumwelten der Naturkunde im 19. u. 20. Jahrhundert” (Old Specimens, Blind Passengers, and Toxic Connections: Natural History Museum Environments in the Nineteenth Centuries)

Talk by Mareike Vennen at the conference Tier-Mensch-Relationen (Animal-Human Realtions), July 14-15, 2022, University of Mainz

• vortrag
• 12.07.2022

TU Berlin: July 14, 2022, 5:00 p.m.: Graduates’ Day + Summer Party, Institute of Art Studies

On Thursday, July 14, the Institute for Art Studies invites you to attend art history Graduates’ Day. Our PI's Dr. Meike Hopp and Dr. Andrea Meyer supervised two of the lectures on museum-historical and current topics.

• vortrag
• 11.07.2022

Talk: Infesting and Preserving – Environmental Histories of “Pests” in Natural History Collections

Talk by Dr. Mareike Vennen at the European Society for Environmental History conference, July 4-8, 2022, University of Bristol

• vortrag
• 06.07.2022

Talk: "Histories of Record-Keeping for the Digital Age“

Talk by Dr. Mareike Vennen at the conference Situating Knowledge: Natural History Collections in the Digital Age , Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, June 13-14 2022

• vortrag
• 10.06.2022

Talk: „Der holprige Weg des Museums in die Moderne. Akteure, Initiativen und Krisen des Deutschen Museumsbunds von 1917 bis 1933“ (The Museum ’s Bumpy Road to Modernity: Actors, Initiatives, and Crises of the German Museum Association from 1917 to 1933)

Guest lecture by Dr. Andrea Meyer , 15 June 2022, Paderborn Unisversity

• vortrag
• 03.06.2022

Video: “How and Why Should We Reclassify Cultural Heritage? Social Aspects of the Use of AI in Museums”

Input by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber at the online workshop AI and Data Ethics in Culture, organized by the Niedersachsen Foundation, May 12, 2022. Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber provided input on the social aspects of using AI in museums (from 2:04, in German).

• Video
• vortrag
• 02.06.2022

Video: The History of the Museum: an ARTE Documentary with Dr. Andrea Meyer

To mark International Museum Day on May 15, our PI Dr. Andrea Meyer spoke about the multifaceted history of the museum, from its beginnings in sixteenth-century Italy to the present day. The video can be watched until June 14, 2022 (in German).

• Video
• 02.06.2022

Panel Talk: Lange Nacht des Sachbuchs (Long Night of the Non-Fiction Book)

On April 29, Dr. Mareike Vennen will provide a sneak peek at her book on the early history of the aquarium at the Lange Nacht des Sachbuchs on April 29, 2022, organized by th Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover.

• vortrag
• 25.04.2022

Weltbilder. Konstruktion von Fremd- und Andersheit in der Kunst des langen 19. Jahrhunderts (World Images: Constructing Foreignness and Otherness in the Art of the Long Nineteeth Century)

This seminar for master’s Art Studies students at the TU Berlin is being held by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber and Freya Schwachenwald , summer semester 2022

• 20.04.2022

Intervention: Neusichtung - Museum Revisited; Eine Ausstellungsanalyse (Neusichtung - Museum Revisited: An Exhibition Analysis)

Headed by Dr. Andrea Meyer in cooperation with the Brücke-Museum and the Kunsthaus Dahlem with students in the Art Studies masters program at TU Berlin

• seminar
• museum
• 11.02.2022

“We have to explain more clearly why museums are essential”

Interview with Prof. Dr. Patricia Rahemipour and Kathrin Grotz from the Institut für Museumsforschung, April 30, 2021 (in German).

• Zeitungsartikel
• 12.01.2022

Museumsdaten analysieren lernen (Learning to Analyze Museum Data)

Master’s seminar for Art Studies students being held by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber at the TU Berlin, winter semester 2021/22

• museumssammlungen
• daten
• 10.12.2021

Kunst und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert (Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century)

Master’s seminar for Art Studies students being held by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber at the TU Berlin, winter semester 2021/22

• gesellschaft
• daten
• 10.12.2021

Museums as Social Places

The joint project “Museums and Society – Mapping the Social” examines the role that museums can play today in political and social debates; Technische Universität Berlin press release from October 14, 2021 (in German)

• Pressemitteilung
• 15.10.2021

Digitale Bildwelten - Museumssammlungen im Netz (Digital Image Worlds - Museum Collections on the Internet)

Master’s seminar for Art Studies students being held by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber at the TU Berlin, winter semester 2021/22

• museumssammlungen
• digitalisierung
• 01.06.2021

Archive des Aussortierten. Fälschungen im Museum (Archives of the Discarded: Forgeries in the Museum)

Master’s seminar for Art Studies students being held by Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber at the TU Berlin

• archive
• museum
• 01.06.2021