Museums, Religion, and the Work of Reconciliation & Remembrance

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Upcoming Event:

Museums, Religion, and the Work of Reconciliation & Remembrance

A Religion & Public Memory (RPM) Workshop at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Thursday, 9 May 2019, 6.30 pm
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin

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Please visit the event page on the Jewish Museum Berlin site for the public program.
Workshop participants: Please visit the internal workshop page for the event (password-protected).

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downloadable program 

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Thursday, May 9

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Welcome (18:30)

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Inka Bertz
Jewish Museum Berlin

Pamela Klassen
University of Toronto

Monique Scheer
University of Tübingen

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Keynotes (19.00)

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Yahguudangang – To Pay Respect
Jisgang Nika Collison
Haida Gwaii Museum, Kay Llnagaay

Signification and the Liquid Museum: The Jewish and the Ethnografic
Léontine Meijer-van Mensch
Museums of Ethnology in Leipzig, Dresden and Herrnhut

Moderated by Sharon Macdonald
CARMAH, Humboldt University Berlin

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Friday, May 10

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Conservation and Spiritual Care (9.00)

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We are NOT all Treaty People Yet: Renewing Treaty Relationships at the Manitoba Museum.
Maureen Matthews
Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg

Digitizing What is Valued: Protecting, Respecting, and Caring for Digitized Collections
Hannah Turner
University of Leicester

Indigenous Knowledge Conservation and Spiritual Care as Nation-Building at //hapo Museum, Freedom Park, South Africa
Duane Jethro
CARMAH, Humboldt University Berlin

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Provenance and Ancestors (10.45)

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Sins of the Ancestors: The Historical Stakes of Collection, Provenance, and Repatriation of African Artefacts
Cécile Fromont
Yale University

Provenance Hiccups and the Definition of Jewish Objects
Michal Friedlander
Jewish Museum Berlin

The Colonizing Properties of Property and the Transformation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Robin R. R. Gray
University of Toronto

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Lunch (12.15)

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Display and Devotion (13.45)

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Exhibiting Islam or Exhibiting the Arts of Muslims? Collection Display and Reception at the Aga Khan Museum
Ruba Kana’an
University of Toronto

Native and Wandering Jews
Yaniv Feller
Wesleyan University

Visiting with the Ancestors: The Indigenization of Museums as Ritual Spaces
Laura Peers
Trent University

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Coffee Break (15.15)

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Acquiring and Relinquishing (15.45)

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A Bible and a Whip
Inés de Castro
Linden Museum, Stuttgart

Scarcity, Dispossession and Salvage: The Work of a Reconciliation Quilt to Think These with Care
Cara Krmpotich
University of Toronto

Respecting the Dead in Museum Collections Negotiating Conflicts with Artistic Research
Tal Adler & Anna Szöke
CARMAH, Humboldt University Berlin

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Saturday, May 11

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Tour (9.30)

Optional Tour of the Jewish Museum Berlin with Miriam Goldmann, Jewish Museum Berlin.

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Coffee Break (11.00)

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Curation and Stories (11.15)

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Curating Echoes: Collecting the Past to Tell Stories for the Future
Peter Manseau
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse  (click here for images)
Courtney Bender
Columbia University

Curating Relationships — Working with Muslim Youth in the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin
Christine Gerbich
CARMAH, Humboldt University Berlin

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Lunch (12.45)

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Objects and Stories (14.15)

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Thresholds of Sacrality: Contexts for Exhibiting Items of Anishinaabe Significance (click here for images)
Alan Ojiig Corbiere
Carleton University

(Dis-)Enchanting Objects: How Curators Attribute Values to Things
Thomas Thiemeyer
University of Tübingen

Naming in Collections: Scratching Woman, Bogoras, and the Jesup Collection
Marisa Karyl Franz
University of Toronto

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Coffee Break (15.45)

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Belonging and Difference (16.15)

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On the Question of (not) Showing. Spirituality as a Category of Knowledge in the Humboldt Forum
Friedrich von Bose
Humboldt University Berlin

Who Belongs? Legal and Cultural Barriers to Equal Membership
Ayelet Shachar
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen

Multidirectional Heritage in Museums: On Post-Holocaust, Post-Colonial and Post-Socialist
Alina Gromova
Jewish Museum Berlin

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Next Steps Planning (17.45)

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Tour (9.00)

Optional Museum Tour (not in JMB).