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CIHA in Lyon is happening! Noémie Etienne is chairing two sessions, on Tuesday 24 and Thurday 27.
Upcoming: Noémie Etienne Moderates at the Natureculture Lab Workshop, 29 January
Upcoming: Noémie Etienne Moderates at the Natureculture Lab Workshop, 29 January
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Welcoming Alisa Santikarn to the GloCo Project Team!
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Welcoming Alisa Santikarn to the GloCo Project Team!
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Upcoming Conference: “Situated Conservation” (23-25 January 2025, Senegal)
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Upcoming Conference: “Situated Conservation” (23-25 January 2025, Senegal)
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We're hard at work preparing for the Situated Conservation conference, taking place in Senegal this January 2025!

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New Editorial: The Untold Story of GAMA’s European Ambitions
New Editorial: The Untold Story of GAMA’s European Ambitions

Publication by Laura Bohnenblust

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Lecture by Nadia Radwan
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Lecture by Nadia Radwan
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“Making Art for Whom? Urgency, Cancellation and Loss”
December 11, 2024, 5-6:30 pm

on site and via Zoom

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Invitation: Evening Talk by Noémie Etienne at Weltmuseum Wien
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Invitation: Evening Talk by Noémie Etienne at Weltmuseum Wien
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December 10, 2024
7:00 PM

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Introducing Our New Cultural Heritage Newsletter!
Introducing Our New Cultural Heritage Newsletter!
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VO Take Over – “Axé - Afrospirituelle Ikonographie in Brasilianischer Kunst” Lecture by Mariama de Brito Henn
VO Take Over – “Axé - Afrospirituelle Ikonographie in Brasilianischer Kunst” Lecture by Mariama de Brito Henn

December 2, 2024
13:15-15:15 PM

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“Contested Conservation” – Read new issue of Museums & Social Issues!
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“Contested Conservation” – Read new issue of Museums & Social Issues!
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New Journal Issue! On the Threshold of Conservation, 2024.
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New Journal Issue! On the Threshold of Conservation, 2024.
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New Lecture Series: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia. Conservation and Destruction
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New Lecture Series: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia. Conservation and Destruction
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Cold War, Hot Topics!
Cold War, Hot Topics!
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CFP: Museum Exhibitions and the Political Economy of Exchange
CFP: Museum Exhibitions and the Political Economy of Exchange
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Launch of the new book series “Traces” on September 18th!
Launch of the new book series “Traces” on September 18th!
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Upcoming: International Workshop “Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates?” 19-20 Sep. 24
Upcoming: International Workshop “Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates?” 19-20 Sep. 24
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Matilde Cartolari at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles
Matilde Cartolari at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles
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Mariama de Brito Henn at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Mariama de Brito Henn at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Workshop “The Fire of the Glaspalast in Munich 1931” with Matilde Cartolari
Workshop “The Fire of the Glaspalast in Munich 1931” with Matilde Cartolari
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AG Provenienzforschung Italien. Online lecture series with Matilde Cartolari
AG Provenienzforschung Italien. Online lecture series with Matilde Cartolari
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CIHA, Lyon, 2024. Noémie Etienne is chairing two sessions.
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CIHA, Lyon, 2024. Noémie Etienne is chairing two sessions.
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CFP: Clean
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CFP: Clean
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CFP: Casting Art
CFP: Casting Art

Please apply! New CFP, Casting Art.

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Renée Riedler in LA!
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Renée Riedler in LA!
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Cécile Mendy in Dakar!
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Cécile Mendy in Dakar!
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Matilde Cartolari won a prize!
Matilde Cartolari won a prize!
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Art and Anthropology. Lecture Series. Join us!
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Art and Anthropology. Lecture Series. Join us!
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New article! From Objects to People
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New article! From Objects to People
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Our first GloCo Article is out!

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Lunch with the Presidents
Lunch with the Presidents
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Commonwealth Association of Museum Conference
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Commonwealth Association of Museum Conference
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Traces. Public History and Heritage Studies
Traces. Public History and Heritage Studies

We are editing a new serie. Feel free to contact us and send us proposals!

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View fullsize 🤩 We are very excited for our conference "Situated Conservation", taking place on from the 23. - 25.01.2025 in Saint Louis, Senegal. Thus we would like to introduce the last set of our distinguished guest speakers: Chantal Umuhoza, Curato
View fullsize We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Alisa Santikarn as a new post-doctoral fellow with the GloCo project! 💫 Alisa will be documenting traditional conservation methods in Cambodia, Thailand, and collaborating with researchers in Northeast India. She&
View fullsize 🤩 We are very excited for our conference "Situated Conservation", taking place on from the 23. - 25.01.2025 in Saint Louis, Senegal. Thus we would like to introduce some of our distinguished guest speakers in the coming days, like: Dr. Di
View fullsize 🤩 We are very excited for our conference "Situated Conservation", taking place on from the 23. - 25.01.2025 in Saint Louis, Senegal. Thus we would like to introduce some of our distinguished guest speakers in the coming days, like: Prof.
View fullsize 👏 Before we start the new year let's take a look back as December was quite a busy month for us and surely for Dr. Guillemette Caupin, who under the supervision of Prof. Noémie Etienne defended her PhD at the Université Paris 1 Pantheo
View fullsize 👀 Check out the new special issue of "Museums & Social Issues" about "Contested Conservation", edited by our chair Prof. Noémie Etienne and Dr. Lotte Arndt! With contributions by Ariane Théveniaud, Isabel Garcia
View fullsize ✨ A Wonderful Evening at the Weltmuseum Wien! ✨ Last night, we were thrilled to see our colleague Noémie Etienne, chair of the Heritage Studies team, share her expertise as a guest speaker at the Weltmuseum Wien. Her talk, „What is Cons
View fullsize 🚨Please join us this Wednesday when Nadia Radwan, researcher and curator specialising in modern and contemporary art from the middle east and current head of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD Geneva, will talk about „Making art for Whom? Urge

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