9 April 2025, 16:30-18:30
Humboldt Forum, Mechanische Arena im Foyer
Public event in French & German with simultaneous translation in French, German, English and livestream
Livestream registration: here
16:30 Welcoming remarks
Han Song Hiltmann, Director of programmes, Humboldt Forum
Souleymane Bachir Diagne,Chairman of the Franco-German Research Fund on the Provenance of Cultural Objects from Sub-Saharan Africa
Lars Christian Koch, Director of the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at Humboldt Forum
16:45 Keynote – Hamady Bocoum,Archaeologist, emeritus director, Museum of Black Civilisations Dakar
17:00 Introduction – What is postcolonial provenance research?
Julie Sissia, Head of project, Provenance Research Fund at Centre Marc Bloch
Christine Howald,Deputy director of Zentralarchiv, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
17:10 Project pitches in conversation with the SPK provenance research team of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB) / Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK)
ReMatriation / Matrimoines. Working with communities and diasporas to explore and reactivate the history, origin and stories of African objects preserved in France and Germany. (ReMatriation, Rautenstrauch Joest Museum Cologne and Université Paris Nanterre)
Re-connecting human remains and cultural objects: Provenance research and rehumanization of ancestral remains from former German colonies in Africa at the University of Strasbourg (ProHumStra, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and University of Strasbourg)
Provenances of Bamana Objects from French Soudan (Mali) between 1880 and 1914: Colonial acquisitions, appropriations and competition in the collections of Museum am Rothenbaum World Cultures and Arts and Musée du quai Branly (PROBAMA, Museum am Rothenbaum World Cultures and musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac)
In dialogue with / Reflected by: Kristin Weber-Sinn, Ohiniko Toffa, Ilja Labischinski and Christine Howald, provenance researchers, SMB/SPK
18:10 Discussion with the public
18:30 End of the event
