Programme of the Virtual Conference:
Thursday, 8 april 2021
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot (Deputy Chair U Bremen Research Alliance, Scientific Director Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS)
9:10 – 9:30 Introduction
Prof. Dr. Sunhild Kleingärtner (Director, German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven - GMM) and PD Dr. Gisela Parak (GMM)
9:45 – 12:00 Panel „Theories and Methodologies“
Chair: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli (University of Bremen)
9:45 – 10:30 Colonial Heritage in Museums. Critical Whiteness Studies in Practical Work
Prof. Dr. Anna Greve (State Museum for Art and Cultural History Bremen-Focke Museum/University of Bremen)
10:30 – 11:30 KEYNOTE: A Problem with Categories: Some Thoughts on Colonial Photographs in Museums
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Edwards (Professor Emerita, De Montfort University / Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, V&A Research Institute, London)
11:30 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 14:45 Panel „German-Namibian Stories”
Chair: PD Dr. Cordula Weißköppel (University of Bremen)
12:30 – 13:15 “Ovizire - Somgu” From Where do We Speak? Confronting a Colonial Photo Collection in the Museum am Rothenbaum
Vitjitua Ndjiharine, artist & cultural scientist (Windhoek, New York) in dialogue with Ulrike Peters, historian (University of Hamburg)
13:15 – 14:00 Visual Analysis of Material Culture Represented via Two Stages of Governance in Namibia from Colonial to Pre-Apartheid Era
Dr. Frauke Stegmann (Visual Arts, University of Namibia)
14:00 – 14:45 Didactics of Decolonization in Higher Education: “Walking Windhoek” – Insights from Interdisciplinary Collaboration During a Workshop on Visual Storytelling
Dr. Martin Gruber & PD Dr. Cordula Weißköppel (University of Bremen)
14:45 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 17:30 Panel „China and Japan“
Chair: Dr. Helga Rathjen (University of Bremen)
15:15–16:00 Johann Lauts’ Amateur Photographs. A Merchant’s Perspective on China
Jan Waßmann, M.A. (University of Oldenburg)
16:00–16:45 Souvenir Photography in Japan - Between Stereotype and Ar
Dr. Renate Noda (Übersee-Museum Bremen)
16:45 – 17:30 Picturing the Boxer War: Public and Private German Photo Albums
Prof. Dr. Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
Friday, 9 april 2021
8:00 – 10:15 Panel „Pacific“
Chair: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf (University of Bremen)
8:00 – 8:45 Say My Name: Countering Visual Narratives of Papua Niugini Bodies
Lisa Hilli (Artist & PhD researcher, Australian National University)
8:45 – 9:30 “Euer Deutscher Blauer Junge” – German Sailors & Samoans in the Early 1900’s: Snapshots from Private Albums
Tony Brunt (Independent Historian, New Zealand / Samoa)
9:30 – 10:15 Images Matter: Germans in the Pacific 1889-1914
Dr. Nicole Perry (University of Auckland)
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 13:00 Panel „Dealing with Anthropological Photo Collections in Museums and Other Research Institutions“
Chair: Dr. Elke Bauer (Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung)
10:45 – 11:30 Re/actions. Putting Images Online
Dr. Agnes Matthias (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)
11:30 – 12:15 Archives of the Future: Dealing with Colonial Photo Collection Items
Carolin Bräuer / Lucia Halder (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne)
12:15 – 13:00 Creating Accessability – Whom, Why, and How Digitisation Might Help
Dr. Beatrice Voirol (Museum der Kulturen Basel)
13:00 End of Conference
Information on participating / attending:
Conference Language: English, Time zone Central European Time (CET)
Registration: The conference will take place online as a Zoom webinar. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please follow:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YBh9xNDeTOi22grj8hsydA
Date:
04/08/2021 09:00 - 04/09/2021 13:00
Registration deadline:
04/07/2021
Event venue:
Online Webinar
Registration: The conference will take place online as a Zoom webinar. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please follow:
https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YBh9xNDeTOi22grj8hsydA
Bremerhaven
Bremen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Oceanology / climate
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
03/18/2021
Sender/author:
Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven
Department:
Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event68225
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