Welcome + Introduction
Opening Remarks: Carl Deußen, Anne Haeming.
Conference logistics (00:01)
Genesis of project (09:52)
Overview of project, our questions regarding “researching” + “narrating” (15:25)
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Panel “Science and Violence” (Researching I)
Chair: Ciraj Rassool
Katherine Biber: “Touching the Death of Joe Governor: Colonial Violence and the Scientific Body Trade” (11:22)
Marie Hoffmann: “Life of a Colonial Traveler: Rethinking the Biography of Alphonse Pinart in the Context of His Collecting Practices” (33:36)
Peter Schröder: “Colonial or Not Colonial, That’s the Question: Curt Nimuendajú as Collector for Brazilian and European Museums” (1:01:18)
Nicholas Miller: “The Archives of German Scientific Travelers in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i: Collection, Colonialism, and Plantation Labor Migration” (no video)
Discussion (1:27:00) –– See more: program Day 1
Keynote: Patrice Nganang
Patrice Nganang: “Reading German Colonial Ethnography to Write My Memoir”.
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Panel “Imperial Self-Portrayal”
(Narrating I)
Chair: Freya Schwachenwald
Kathryn Ticehurst: “A Portrait of the Anthropologist as a Young White Woman: Reading Tensions in Fieldnotes” (05:09)
Philipp Müller: “On the Scope of Biographical Research in the History of Collections” (26:35)
Arisa Loomba: “Foreign Objects at Home and Away: Mobility and Materiality in Self-Fashioning and Imperial Careering in the Late British Empire, Exploring the Collections at Rudyard Kipling’s English Home” (45:57)
Discussion (1:12:44)
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Panel “Deconstructing Imperial Lives”
(Narrating II)
Chair: Stefanie Michels
Agnès Lacaille: “A Congo of One’s Own? The collection of Jeanne Walschot at the RMCA” (no video)
Jonas Tinius: “Colonial Neighbours. On Curatorial Footnotes and Narratives” (07:37)
Tal Adler: “Foreign Objects at Home and Away: Mobility and Materiality in Self-Fashioning and Imperial Careering in the Late British Empire, Exploring the Collections at Rudyard Kipling’s English Home” (27:27)
Discussion (42:30)
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Keynote: Vanessa A. Opoku
/ PARA Collective
Vanessa A. Opoku, PARA Collective: “Moving Mountains. Berge Versetzen”.
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Panel “Imperial Production of Knowledge + Ignorance”
(Researching II)
Chair: Carl Deußen
Nora Derbal “A ‘German Orientalist’ in Aden: Decolonizing Methodologies Through the Biographic Approach”
Suha Hasan: no video
Sarah Longair: no video
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Panel “Decentering Imperial Memory”
(Researching + Narrating)
Chair: Richard Kuba
Shreya Gupta: “Colonial Coin Collecting Networks: Unearthing Indian Voices Through Imperial Archives” (07:54)
Yann LeGall: “A Fish Who Goes Around in Togo, Comes Around in Kamerun” (29:57)
Luisa Marten: “The Notion of Interlocution in Biographic Research Approaches” (54:32)
Discussion (1:15:47)
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Closing Remarks
Conference Summary: Carl Deußen, Anne Haeming.
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