GHIL Lecture

Subhadra Das, Clémentine Deliss, Tristram Hunt, and Alice Procter

From Collected to Contested:

The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate

Contested Histories Seminar Series

25 June 2019

(1:45 h)

GHIL Lecture

Subhadra Das, Clémentine Deliss, Tristram Hunt, and Alice Procter

From Collected to Contested:
The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate

Chaired by Mirium Brusius

European museums have recently come under increasing pressure to repatriate objects from colonial times. But where do we go from here? Does repatriation naturally entail ‘decolonizing the museum’, or might it even prevent museums from doing just that? This panel will discuss what decolonization in the museum might actually mean. How do recent debates fit into the bigger picture of engaging with uncomfortable collecting histories? And how could embracing these histories enable marginal and multiple voices to have a say?

The second part of the Contested Histories Seminar Series (11 June 2019):

Avril Alba, Yasmin Khan, and Tom Lawson: Multidirectional Memory? National Holocaust Memorials and (Post-)Colonial Legacies

was held at UCL and can be found here on the UCL Arts and Social Science Soundcloud (1:18 h)