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Tid og stad: , Seminar room in St. Olavs gate 29

Greenland’s repatriation work has resulted in the restitution of more than 30 000 cultural objects. In this SENKU seminar, Dr Christian Koch Madsen from Greenland National Museum & Archives will talk about the past but foremost the present and future repatriation strategies and processes in Greenland.

Tid og stad: , Lecture Hall, Historical Museum

This marks the book launch of two edited volumes that explore the subject of human sacrifice from diverse – archaeological, anthropological, and theoretical – perspectives.

Tid og stad: , Foredragssalen Frederiks gate 3

Dr. Barrie Cook from the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum will give a talk 'A history of A history of the world in 100 objects and other projects, 2009-2020'.

Tid og stad: , Seminar room St. Olavsgate 29

Welcome to the SENKU seminar with Igor Krupnik, a curator from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution!

Tid og stad: , Seminar room St. Olavsgate 29

Øivind Fuglerud will present his paper in progress entitled 'Conspiracies, ideology and myth: Some aspects of the Sri Lankan Aragalaya in a wider setting'. All KHM colleagues are welcome to join the discussion!

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SENKU seminar on November 30 will host two curators from the Wereldmuseum, the Netherlands: Cunera Buijs and Erna Lilje who will discuss the role of Indigenous knowledge and engagement in museum research and exhibition making.

Tid og stad: , St. Olav's gate 29

Australian Indigenous people held a very particular position in European ethnography at the beginning of the last century. For a long time, the colonial narrative has been shaping the way Aboriginal cultures were interpreted and exhibited in European museums. How do Aboriginal Australians tell their own histories and how should European museums engage with this today?

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Join us in this lecture where Professor Batsaikhan Ookhnoi reconsiders the role of the 8th Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu – in rough terms, the Mongolian equivalent of Tibet’s Dalai Lama at the time – in engineering the national independence of Mongolia from the Qing Empire in 1911.

Tid og stad: , St. Olav's gate 29

Social anthropologist and historian of ideas Lars Risan gives his perspective on the fascinating story of two girls allegedly raised by wolfs in the early 1900s and how that incident affected new scientific understandings of human nature.

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Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen will share the story of the Benin Bronze, from its casting in the late 18th century to its return to Benin City in February 2022, exactly 125 years after it was looted.

Tid og stad: , St. Olav's gate 29

What role do artists play in the repatriation of looted cultural property to the communities of origin?

Tid og stad: , St. Olav's gate 29

Ládjogahpir is a traditional Sámi hat for women. How do Sámi women engage with it and discuss it nowadays? What are the particular meanings attached to it in current Sámi society, and in the processes of remaking and reusing the ládjogahpir?

Tid og stad: , Seminarrommet St. Olavsgate 29

The Challenge of Being a World Culture Museum Today.

Tid og stad: , Seminar room NUMBER? St. Olavs gate 29, Museum of Cultural History

In the 11th and 12th century, a profound change took place in Europe. Christianisation spread to the far corners of the continent, kingdoms emerged and with them came literacy, bureaucracy – and national coinage. Medieval monetization processes have increasingly become the focus of numismatic research over recent years in many places. This workshop aims to bring researchers from different countries together and create an environment of exchange in order to share and create new knowledge, insights, and ideas.

Tid og stad: , Seminarrommet St. Olavsgate 29

Narratives of human sacrifice are fraught with colonial heritage in multiple ways, from the ways in which accusations of human sacrifice and cannibalism was used as a legitimating tool by colonialist powers to the Eurocentric frameworks of knowledge production which upholds traditional assumed meanings of acts interpreted as sacrifice. The workshop seeks to approach this complex topic from varied viewpoints and materials, to create an environment for open discussion about how we can decolonise the study of multifaceted forms of sanctioned violence and expressions thereof. We will discuss the influence of political and strategic desires to Other those to whom such practices were ascribed, and the residual effects of colonialist frameworks on current knowledge, along with other angles and questions.

Tid og stad: , Seminarrommet St. Olavsgate 29

Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at UCL Elisabeth Graham will give a lecture titled Killing people for gods…… the pastime of the Ancients?

The lecture builds on her extensive expertise in decolonising and problematizing assumptions of human sacrifice. 

Tid og stad: , Gamle festsal, Urbygningen

Christopher Hansteens bidrag til studiet av jordas magnetisme i skyggen av Alexander von Humboldt og Carl Friedrich Gauss. 

Tid og stad: , Seminarrommet St. Olavsgate 29

Dark Time – Museums in the Time of Decolonisation

Tid og stad: , Seminarrommet St Olavsgate 29

Liisa-Rávná Finbog discusses indigenous heritage objects in museums

Tid og stad: , Zoom Meeting https://uio.zoom.us/j/68384456101

Transient E-Waste Spaces: Labour, Kinship and Capital in Electronic Waste Salvaging

Tid og stad: , St. Olavs gate 29

Critical events and public memories: Remembering and forgetting racism in Norway

Tid og stad: , St. Olavs gate 29

Critical events and public memories: Remembering and forgetting racism in Norway   

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Lecture and panel conversation with Franziska Torma

SENKU is co-hosting The 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, which is Corona-postponed until 2021. In lieu of the 2020-conference, the organizing committee have organized two webcast panels to adress current issues in the history of science. This is the second. No pre-registration: Join the event here.

Tid og stad: , Online: Link will be published here.

Online lecture and panel conversation with Nathaniel Comfort.

SENKU is co-hosting The 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, which is Corona-postponed until 2021. In lieu of the 2020-conference, the organizing committee have organized two webcast panels to adress current issues in the history of science. This is the first.

Tid og stad: , https://uio.zoom.us/j/62878534972

A Human Rights Based Approach to Sámi Statistics in Norway.

NB: Please note, this is a webinar on Zoom: 

https://uio.zoom.us/j/62878534972