{"id":111076,"date":"2016-03-29T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.afromagazine.eu\/decolonize-the-museum-conference-april-16th-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:48:39","slug":"decolonize-the-museum-conference-april-16th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/decolonize-the-museum-conference-april-16th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonize The Museum Conference April 16th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Decolonize The Museum<\/strong> is an effort to confront the colonial ideas and practices present in ethnographic museums up until this day. We have worked throughout 2015 to stage a joint intervention in the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures<\/strong>. This intervention critiques the language, imagery and accessibility of its current exhibitions.<\/p>\n

Our intent is firstly to expose the violence perpetuated by ethnographic museums by critiquing its Eurocentrism, white supremacy, its assumed neutrality and its excuses of \u201conly having so much time\/space\u201d. We base this critique on the museum experience of ourselves and our friends whose heritage is studied and analysed, but who, ourselves, are seldom the target group of ethnographic museums. Simultaneously, we push a conversation about how – if at all – the ethnographic museum can contribute to reinstating the agency and histories of colonized peoples, life and territories.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, Decolonize The Museum is about educating and challenging the organization so that neo-liberal conceptions of \u2018diversity\u2019 do not become the limit of change for these institutions.<\/p>\n

The conference on April 16th 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Decolonize The Museum conference will take place on the 16th of April at the Tropenmuseum<\/strong>. It is a public and free event. The event is free but due to limited space, reservations are required. Please reserve your spot by sending an e-mail to:<\/strong> decolonizethemuseum@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those interested are invited to become part of the intervention and the broader conversation about the role of justice within ethnographic museums and other cultural institutions. Participants of the intervention will share their analysis and experience of the intervention in the Tropenmuseum. Activists, thinkers and artists from different countries and lands will share their ideas of what a \u2018decolonial approach\u2019 can and\/or ought to mean when it comes to (European) cultural institutions. What are the possibilities and problems of such an approach? How do we build structures of our own to honour the past and anticipate the scopes of what is to come?<\/p>\n

Programme<\/strong>
\n12.00-12.15 Introduction by Decolonize The Museum initiators
\n12.15-13.00 Keynote speech: Is it possible to \u2018decolonize\u2019 the museum?
\n13.00-14.30 Panel \u201cPossibilities, politics and limits of decolonizing the Tropenmuseum\u201d with participants of Decolonize The Museum
\n14.30-15.30 Break
\n15.30-17.00 Panel \u201cStrategies for changing European cultural institutions and creating our own decolonial structures\u201d with PoC and migrant thinkers, activists and artists from the Netherlands and other European countries
\n17.00-17.15 Break
\n17.15-18.30 Workshops
\n18.30-18.45 Reflection and closing
\n18.45-19.30 Drinks<\/p>\n

Location:\u00a0Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) – Royal Tropical Institute<\/strong>
\nMauritskade 63, 1092 AD Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Image credit:\u00a0https:\/\/unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/05\/the-decolonial-atlas-re-imagining-the-world\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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