The third WeberWorldCafé, “Museum, Power, and Identity” took place on June 11, 2015 at the Museen Dahlem in cooperation with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Art historians, curators and artists discussed the implications of exhibiting non-European art and the question what stories the objects in museum collections can tell today.
As part of their conference „Museums and Their Collections“, the research group FLOORPLAN is hosting a WorldCafé on “Whose Heritage? Museums and Their Collections”. The event will take place at...
By Anna Yuwen The collection and summation of all human knowledge is a not a new endeavor. Varying institutions across millennia have searched for ways to catalogue, archive, and disseminate...
After protests Boston’s “Museum of Fine Arts” had to cancel their “Kimono Wednesdays”. As a part of their exhibition featuring Monet’s “La Japonaise”, visitors have their photographs taken in front...
As the pictures of the table cloths already show, the documentation of our WeberWorldCafé is rather unusual. Instead of papers by our table hosts published together as it is often done after...
Das Blog CONTEMPORARY AND, kurz C&, ist eine dynamische Plattform für den Austausch von Informationen, Ideen und Diskursen zur zeitgenössischen Kunstpraxis aus afrikanischen Perspektiven. Initiiert wurde das Blog vom Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, gefördert...
Wild Thinking, Coffee and Notes on Table Cloths It is the basic idea of the WeberWorldCafé to start an open conversation. The goal is to have a small group of people engage...
See below for a few impressions from our third WeberWorldCafé!
Vergangene Woche fand das Richtfest des Berliner Stadtschlosses statt. Das Stadtschloss soll nicht nur deutsche Geschichte präsentieren, sondern soll auch Objekte aus außereuropäischen Kulturkreisen darstellen. Doch die vom Humboldt-Forum gesponnenen Träume eines...
Das WeberWorldCafé-Blog begleitet und dokumentiert die verschiedenen WeberWorldCafés und schafft so neben dem analogen Diskussionsraum während der Veranstaltungen einen zusätzlichen digitalen Raum für einen offenen Dialog. Ziel der WeberWorldCafés ist es, transregionale Themen aus möglichst vielen Perspektiven zu betrachten und wissenschaftliche Impulse aus verschiedenen Regionen zusammenzuführen.
The WeberWorldCafé blog links the digital possibilities of communication with the actual event of the WeberWorldCafés and creates an additional, digital space for open dialog. The aim of the WeberWorldCafé events is to discuss the transregional topics with manifold perspectives and thus bring together different academic impulses from various world regions.
