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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