Collecting Global Heritage
Date: Thursday 26 June 2025
Time: 01.30 – 4.30 PM (CEST)
Location: Wereldmuseum Leiden
Address: Steenstraat 1 2312 BS Leiden
Organisation: Universiteit Leiden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Language: English
Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are jointly organizing a networking event as part of the joint sector theme ‘Cultural heritage and identity: collecting, management and transfer’. You are cordially invited to attend.
The restitution of objects and collections and the decolonization of the institutions to which these collections belong are high on the agenda. Through co-creation and new, digital techniques, collections managers want to open up collections in a more equitable and inclusive way. These trends require us to reflect not only on our practice as researchers, but also on our conceptual understanding of the collection, management and transfer of cultural heritage.
What is the place of cultural heritage collections in our research? How is the digitization of these collections changing our research practice? And to what extent do archival and research infrastructures – digital and physical – influence our approach to heritage collections?
On 26 June we would like to discuss these questions and share experiences with you, together with partners from the heritage sector. The programme will start with four presentations followed by a panel discussion and debate with the audience.
- Mariana de Campos Françozo (Universiteit Leiden) – Indigenous South America in Museum Collections: Evolving Research Perspectives
- Quinsy Gario (Vrije Universiteit) – In Plain Sight: Dutch Afro-Caribbean art practices and Dutch colonial collections
- Alicia Schrikker (Universiteit Leiden) – Colonial Collections and the Repatriation of Objects
- Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit) – Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage