Researchers and curators from the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Universität Bonn present the book “Collections as Relations” (Routledge, 2025). In this volume, they develop new approaches for exploring relational connections among ethnographic and global art collections from diverse world regions. The focus will be on contestations of belonging, cultural heritage, and knowledge infrastructures. The event, moderated by Prof. Dr. Barbara Göbel (co-editor, Director, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and introduced by Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin) aims at fostering the exchange on the future of collections and collection institutions.

18:15     Introduction: Hansjörg Dilger (Co-editor, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin)

18.30     Curating and Creating Relations between Lived Worlds: A Practice- Oriented Methodology for Museum Engagements with Indigenous Communities from Amazonia: Andrea Scholz (Curator for Transcultural Cooperation, Ethnologisches Museum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)

Cultural Heritage from Colonial Context as Disputed Heritage: The Case of Cameroon and Germany: Richard Tsogang Fossi (Postdoc Research Fellow, DFG-Project „Reverse Collections' Stories. Mapping Art and Culture from Cameroon in German Museums", Institut für Kunstwissenschaften und Historische Urbanistik, Technische Universität Berlin)

Towards Democratising the Formation of Knowledge: Researching Sensitive Collections from Namibia Collectively: Julia Binter (Argelander-Professor for Critical Museum and Heritage Studies/ Research professorship of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Present Pasts", Universität Bonn)

19:00     Comments: Ferdinand de Jong (Guest Professor for African Art and Visual Cultures,Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin); Yorleny Cardozo Peña (Fellow, Collaborative Museum, Ethnologisches Museum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)

19:20    Questions and Discussion

Collections as Relations. Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures (Routledge, 2025, edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze and Alexis Th. von Poser)

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with:

Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Free entry: Admission to the event starts at 5:45 P.M.

Virtual participation via Webex: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/j.php?MTID=mdb61607c25ece8fdb63fb676b36dda5e

Language: English

Venue: Klangwerkstatt, Humboldt Forum, Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, crossbar/floor 1.5