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Date
08.06. - 09.06.2017
Location
Museumsakademie Joanneum
Meeting point
Brussels (BE)
Costs
180 €, reduced fee 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)
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“European identity” – what does this term mean today against the background of Europe’s historical entanglements and the challenges and hopes of the present? We will approach this question by focusing on the new and renewed museums that embody this idea, above all, the House of European History and the newly renovated, perhaps largest colonial museum on the continent, the old Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. How do these museums position themselves against the background of their history of foundation and collecting? How do museum professionals deal with (national) views of history and European/Belgian colonialism? How do they interact with the individual urban communities? Finally, what perspectives for and on Europe can they develop in its relationship to a globalized world?
With
Christine Bluard Museologist, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (BE)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Director of Museumakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)
Taja Vovk van Gaal Head of Project Team, House of European History, Brussels (BE)
Saskia Willaert Curator African Collections, Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels (BE)
Organiser of the workshop
Kerstin Poehls Professor at the Institute of Folklore/Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg (DE)
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