„Museum, Power, and Identity“ – The Third WeberWorldCafé
11 June 2015, 3-8 pm Museen Dahlem, Lansstraße 8 / Arnimallee 25, 14195 Berlin The 19th and early 20th centuries are the time of the great foundations and expansions of museums in Europe. In many...
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WeberWorldCafé “Museum, Power, and Identity”– Introducing our table hosts
How can artefacts be exhibited without falling into problematic categories like “Europe” and “the Other”? Can we make sense of the distinction between art and ethnology or art and material culture?...
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Recommendation: Symposium “Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century”
Are you interested in ethnology and cultural anthropology? If so, did you know that the traditional way in which culture is exhibited in ethnological museums originated with the curiosity cabinets of...
View ArticleTable Topics “Artistic Intervention”
The table Artistic Intervention, hosted by Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne (Kunsthochschule Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann (Kunsthochschule Kassel) will focus on the perspective of the artists...
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Table Topics “Social Movements and Cultural Icons”
At the table Social Movements and Cultural Icons, hosted by Beata Hock (Universität Leipzig) and James Mark (University of Exeter), we will consider the extent to which the socialist world was part of...
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Table Topics: Can Cool Little Boys Wear Skirts? Gender, Parenthood and...
Ronald Saladin (photo: private) Fashion can be regarded as an extension of the body. The clothes we wear can convey information about our job, our hobbies, our religion etc. Fashion tells a story about...
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Table Topics: Facing Various Axes of Oppression – Individual, Political and...
„All Oppression is Connected“, 2013 by Jim Chuchu (photo: baldiri | Flickr| CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Crucial to the rise and propagation of diversity as a relevant notion for the social sciences were the...
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