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CIHA in Lyon is happening! Noémie Etienne is chairing two sessions, on Tuesday 24 and Thurday 27.
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
GloCo
Lecture by Nadia Radwan
GloCo

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

on site and via Zoom

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GloCo
Invitation: Evening Talk by Noémie Etienne at Weltmuseum Wien
GloCo
Invitation: Evening Talk by Noémie Etienne at Weltmuseum Wien
GloCo

December 10, 2024
7:00 PM

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GloCo
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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Read new issue of Museums & Social Issues!
GloCo
Read new issue of Museums & Social Issues!
GloCo
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GloCo
New Journal Issue! On the Threshold of Conservation, 2024.
GloCo
New Journal Issue! On the Threshold of Conservation, 2024.
GloCo
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GloCo
New Lecture Series: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia. Conservation and Destruction
GloCo
New Lecture Series: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia. Conservation and Destruction
GloCo
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GloCo
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.
GloCo
CIHA, Lyon, 2024. Noémie Etienne is chairing two sessions.
GloCo
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GloCo
CFP: Clean
GloCo
CFP: Clean
GloCo
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GloCo
CFP: Casting Art
CFP: Casting Art

Please apply! New CFP, Casting Art.

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

Our first GloCo Article is out!

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GloCo
Lunch with the Presidents
Lunch with the Presidents
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Commonwealth Association of Museum Conference
GloCo
Commonwealth Association of Museum Conference
GloCo
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GloCo
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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Life and Death. Lecture Series
Life and Death. Lecture Series
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CfP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates?
CfP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates?

CFP. Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates?

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Book Presentation: Till Hilmar, "Deserved."
Event
Book Presentation: Till Hilmar, "Deserved."
Event

Launch and discussion of Till Hilmar’s new publication “Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain.” Moderated by Anna-Maria Kroupova.

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Find out what’s happening in our ERC Project!
Global Conservation: History and Theories

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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
View fullsize 👋This Tuesday, Dezember 10., our chair, Prof. Noémie Etienne will give a public lecture about „What is Conservation? About people, objects and words“ at the Weltmuseum Vienna. She will provide insights into current discourses and
View fullsize A few impressions from our PhD candidate Ruby Satele at the GloCo project and her recent research trips to Germany: I visited the ancestral remains from Sāmoa in the collections of the University of Gottengin (23.10) and the GRASSI museum (25.11) in
View fullsize 📢 Please join us this Wednesday from 5-6.30pm (CET) for the lecture by Dr. Mazen Iwaisi from Queen's University Belfast about "No State, no NGOs: Refection on Families'Approach in Converting Traditional Houses into Local Museums in Palestine&qu
View fullsize 👀 Check out the new issue of Troubles dans les collections "On the threshold of conservation" edited by our chair Noémie Etienne and Lotte Arndt! It explores the question of how to rethink conservation practices through the works of
View fullsize 🧳 From October 10.-13., our doctoral students of the Cultural Heritage Chair and the Global Conservation project at the University of Vienna visited the Venice Biennale. The focus of their research during this visit was the ‘fragility and tra

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