Very recently, a long-lost Klimt has resurfaced, along with a silenced story. @noemieetienne.bsky.socials student, Sarah Hübler, looks into Austria’s colonial past through the portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, a performer in 1900s so-called ethnographic shows.

Read here: bit.ly/42hLWqN

🎨 Check out our new guest lectures for the summer term on Museums, Exhibitions & Conservation, organized by @noemieetienne.bsky.social. Speakers include @silas-blue.bsky.social, @heghnarw.bsky.social & @cageinbeakifly.bsky.social and many others.

📅 Wednesdays 9:15–10:45am CET.
✍️ DM for Zoom link!

Sargal Fatima Fall Niang! We closed the day with a heartfelt ceremony honoring Fatima Fall Niang. She is an iconic figure in heritage management in 🇸🇳, dedicating her life to its preservation. A former director of CRDS in Saint-Louis, she combined practical experience with theoretical approaches.

How to transmit heritage? In our final panel on textiles, we focused on preserving knowledge through bottom-up efforts--driven by the people involved and not relying solely on the state.

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What is the goal of conservation if not the living? We asked many thought provoking questions during our fifth panel on built heritage. The discussion centered around the connection between built heritage, histories, and tourism.

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How do we conserve archival documents? In our fourth panel, we talked about the specific challenges of preserving both colonial and pre-colonial archives, in distinction from objects.

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Craftwomen are at the center of art and knowledge production. In our third panel, we highlighted pottery as an important cultural heritage, urging museums to value it and connect with communities.

In our second panel, PhD candidates and postdocs shared their ongoing research. We discussed key aspects for cultural heritage processes. We looked into the role of languages in connecting traditional practices and communities to museum work.

In our first panel, we discussed the standards and futures of museums in Africa, focusing on the relationship between traditional and international approaches in institutions. Digital humanities emerged as one of the tools for decentralizing and decolonizing knowledge.

In his inaugural lecture, Alain Gonodou talked about the repatriation of objects from French museums 🇫🇷 to Benin 🇧🇯. He not only shared details about the process, but also invoted the scientific community to deconstruct ideas surrounding the universality of knowledge.

Our chair, @noemieetienne.bsky.social, has emphasized in her opening speech the importance of approaching #conservation as a plural, situated socially, economically, historically, and epistomilogically.

✨ We're getting ready at the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis to kick-off this intriguing morning program! 🌍 Join us online for the international conference "Situated Conservations" by following this link to the 📹 livestream: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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✨ But now it’s time for the “Situated Conservation” conference in Saint Louis, organized together with CRDS. It starts tomorrow at 10am CET, and we’ll be covering it here. 📢📜 Stay tuned! @noemieetienne.bsky.social @amkroupova.bsky.social

See the full program here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Our team from Vienna has been in Senegal, meeting professionals in Dakar and Saint Louis across heritage fields like textiles, archives, museums, and feminist networks. The inspiring conversations taught us so much about local heritage practices while sharing perspectives and building connections.

🌍 Join us in honoring Fatima Fall Niang, UNESCO expert & champion of cultural heritage! The international conference on Situated Conservation is set for Jan 23–25, 2025, in Saint Louis, Senegal. 🎉 A tribute to her incredible work preserving museum collections in Senegal & across Africa. 🏛️✨

Don't miss the online lecture “Talking with the Deads” by Gladys Kalichini, researcher & artist based in Zambia (organized by @noemieetienne.bsky.social). The lecture is part of the series Take Over. Intersektionale Interventionen.
📆 Next Tuesday, Dec 5, 10:15-11:45am CET.
📩 DM for Zoom link.

👋Meet the faces behind our Chair of Cultural Heritage! We, Laura Bohnenblust, Mariama de Brito Henn, Milena Telsnig, @amkroupova.bsky.social, Cécile Mendy and @noemieetienne.bsky.social, are looking forward to share with you exciting projects, interesting events and inspiring discussions!

Vielen Dank an alle Teilnehmenden für die spannende Veranstaltung "Disziplinen in Bewegung" am vergangenen Donnerstag!🙏
🚨 Nächster Termin: Zum Thema "Konsum" diskutieren wir am 14.12. ab 12:00 mit K. Mack und M. Martsch.
📩 Anmeldung per DM.
👉 Programm: fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/veranstaltun...

🎨How does contemporary art relate to life and death? Find out in the first lecture of the series by Niko Vicario from the Amherst College, organized by @noemieetienne.bsky.social at the University of Vienna.
📆 Next Tuesday, 14.11., 10:15am CET on Zoom.
📩 DM sarah.huebler@univie.ac.at for the link.