We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming lecture series Museums, Exhibitions, Conservation, part of the Cultural Heritage Chair at the University of Vienna. This series features distinguished scholars discussing pressing issues in museum studies, conservation, provenance research, and the history of collections.
More: https://www.heritagestudiesvienna.com/

When: Wednesdays, 9:15–10:45 CET via Zoom (except May 21, starting at 8:15 CET)

Zoom Link: contact julia.spitalerunivie.ac.at

Guest Lectures

May 7 – Maeva Pimo (Vienna) – Gender and Queer Memory in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between Archive Fever and Archival Violence

May 14 – Silas Edwards (Frankfurt) – The Museum in the Age of Extinction

May 21 – Heghnar Watenpaugh (Los Angeles) – From Genocide to Justice: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript (Special start time: 8:15 CET)

May 28 – Adila Laïdi-Hanieh (Ramallah) – Museum and Heritage Solutions in Forbidding Circumstances

June 4 – Ruby Satele Asiata (Vienna) – Thinking Trans-Indigenous: Melanesian Ancestral Remains and the Samoan Context

June 11 – Wendy Shaw (Berlin) – From Heritage to Circulation: Islamic Thought as a Means of Decolonizing the Museum Paradigm

June 18 – Renée Riedler (Vienna) – Replicas in the Conservation Praxis

Download the program: https://www.heritagestudiesvienna.com/news-events/k3ms7w6wwnnlwn90lwuqjwci0v404e