Ilja Labischinski
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Ilja Labischinski
@iljalabi.bsky.social
Provenance Researcher at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. My views are my own.
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A handover ceremony with representatives from the Ugar Island in Torres Straits was held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin on December 5 to honor the return of five First Nations ancestors to Australia.

'These ancestors were removed without consent and now they are coming home.' Sereako Stephen
www.arts.gov.au
December 17, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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New year, new webinar series! Join us for the first session:

💬Unpacking Provenance: Retracing the Histories of Asian Art

🕛Wednesday, 22 January, 12-1pm EDT / 6-7pm CET.

The webinar on histories of Asian Art brings together specialists to discuss provenance research processes and share resources.
January 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Poesiepreis Cave Canem gewinnt Brandon Kilbourne, Evolutionsbiologe am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Sein Gedichtband legt Zeugnis davon ab, wie die Erforschung der natürlichen Welt mit den Schrecken der Sklaverei und des Kolonialismus verwoben war

www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/ueber/neu...
Evolutionsbiologe am Berliner Naturkundemuseum gewinnt amerikanischen Poesiepreis
Den diesjährigen US-amerikanischen Poesiepreis von Cave Canem gewinnt Brandon Kilbourne, Evolutionsbiologe am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Sein Gedichtband „Natural History“ legt Zeugnis davon ab, wi...
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
December 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Die SPK hat heute eine chinesische Dachreiterfigur aus der Sammlung des Ethnologischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin an die Erben des Schriftstellers und Sittenforschers Eduard Fuchs restituiert.
www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/news-detail/...
Chinesische Dachreiterfigur an die Erben von Eduard Fuchs restituiert
Die SPK hat heute eine chinesische Dachreiterfigur aus der Sammlung des Ethnologischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin an die Erben des Schriftstellers und Sittenforschers Eduard Fuchs restit...
www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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REMINDER: Morgen geht es in der James-Simon-Galerie um die menschlichen Schicksale hinter den Akten: Das Projekt "Kunst, Raub, Rückgabe" zieht Bilanz. Mit Podiumsgespräch über das Erinnern in Familien, Kurzfilmen von vergessenen Lebensgeschichten und einem Ausblick von Provenienzforschenden.
Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten - Bilanz und Ausblick
www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de
December 3, 2024 at 10:51 AM
"Wie freiwillig ist ein Geschenk, wenn in der Nachbarschaft die Paläste brennen?"

www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
Der Perlenthron - Kameruns Kulturerbe in deutschen Museen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Es war ein majestätisches Geburtstagsgeschenk eines Königs an einen Kaiser. 1908 sandte der kamerunische König Njoya den Perlenthron "Mandu Yenu" an Kaiser Wilhelm II. In Berlin ist der Thron als Kuns...
www.arte.tv
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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How can we remember and confront the legacies of scientific racism and eugenics? I wrote a review about the new exhibition “Science and Injustice” of the Memorial Site Ihnestraße at the FU Berlin and its community-based participatory process: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/11/28/a...
A Collective Effort to Remember Scientific Racism: The Opening of the Memorial Ihnestraße in Berlin
Flowers were placed next to a stele in the opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial Site’s exhibition “History of Science and Injustice”, October 2024 (Photo by the author)by Thiago P. Barbosa The beauti…
anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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How do objects from archaeological excavations end up in a museum in Berlin? In the last provenance exhibition talk of 2024 this question will be discussed by researchers from the project "Legal - Illegal?

Where? Altes Museum.
When? Th. 5.12. 3:30-4:30 pm
How? In German. Free with registration:
Antiken auf der Spur
Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, wie all die archäologischen Objekte eigentlich ins Museum gekommen sind? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich ...
www.smb.museum
December 2, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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early sneak peak into the exhibition "Histories of Tanzania"

the co-curated exhibition asks: What (hi)stories do cultural belongings tell?

central in the curation: the perspectives of society representatives and provenance stories

opens tomorrow, 29.11 www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
November 28, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Die beste Handwercksbäckerei in Berlin jetzt auch mit einem Standort an diesem wichtigen Ort. Was für tolle Neuigkeiten!

www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche...
„Babka & Krantz“ im Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Die jüdische Meisterkonditorei begrüßt ab dem 3. Dezember seine Gäste
www.juedische-allgemeine.de
December 2, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Eine Ausstellung fächert die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania auf. Tausende Kulturgüter und menschliche Gebeine wurden damals geraubt. Deutschland müsse historische Verantwortung übernehmen, fordert Entwicklungs-Experte Thomas Fues.

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-historie...
Humboldt Forum: Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania
Teile des heutigen Tansanias waren einst deutsche Kolonie. Eine Ausstellung im Humboldt Forum zeigt rund 170 Objekte von über tausenden geraubten Kulturgütern.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
December 2, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Out now as full open access!
“Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others. The Materiality of Identity and Depots of Global History“ ed. by @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social, Friederike Odenwald and me.
November 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Artifacts and human remains taken by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the late 1940s are being returned to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum

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Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.
apnews.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Read our collection of articles published as part of the #OLHJournal "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery" special collection, guest-edited by Angela Dressen: olh.openlibhums.org/...
November 9, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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This is long overdue, & a good reference point for tackling one of the darkest aspects of Norway's history.

That the most populist right-wing party opposed the measure is an important sign that this motion is very, very necessary.
November 12, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Posting to a new audience the repatriation and provenance project I have been working with since 2015

returnreconcilerenew.info
Return Reconcile Renew Digital Archive
The Return Reconcile Renew Digital Archive offers information and records relating to the removal and repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains.
returnreconcilerenew.info
November 13, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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One of the driest places on Earth, #Chile 's Atacama Desert, attracts hundreds of racers every year - but the #offroad fun is also threatening - and destroying - #Indigenous peoples' rich #CulturalHeritage, ancient monumental #geoglyphs:

🏺 www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/s... via @nytimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Our special exhibition on "Colonialism in Things" opened today and will run until May 18. Check it out if are in Munich or pass through, perhaps give me a call or leave a note here 👋🏻. #KolonialismusinDingen
November 8, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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How did Nazi plunder get from a cabal of looted art dealers in Munich to the art museums of the United States of America?

The Munich Connection
www.openartdata.org/2021/06/the-...

#networks #art #crime #museum
November 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
"Grassi-Museum Leipzig. Vorbild im Umgang mit Gebeinen aus der Kolonialzeit"

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/leipziger-gr...
January 10, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Join us on November 29 for our talk on "Curating Postcolonial Provenance Research in the Humboldt Forum" at FU Berlin or online

www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/e...
November 23, 2023 at 8:43 AM
5 years ago today, we first set foot on the construction site.
One year ago we proudly opened the exhibition and in two weeks from today you will witness some major changes and transformations within our exhibition.

Follow the website for more news to come:
www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/...
November 1, 2023 at 8:54 AM
Hi everyone and thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social for the invitation!
October 27, 2023 at 7:12 PM