Activities & Events Conferences and Workshops Photo: Wikimedia CommonsVisuelle Skepsis in der Landschaftsarchitektur?Historische Grüngestaltung als schwieriges Erbe und der heutige Umgang mit diesem Hamburg, 11 April 2025detailsPhoto: UHH | KernDifficult Heritage and “Nature”.Greening as Forgetting – Greening as Healing? Hamburg, 19. -21. Sept. 2024detailsAnnouncementsPhoto: MSA14 July 2025|ConferencePanel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt” accepted to the 9th Annual MSA conference in PragueWe are delighted to announce that our panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt in Reframing Difficult Heritage –...Photo: Wikimedia Commons11 April 2025|WorkshopWorkshop "Visuelle Skepsis in der Landschaftsarchitektur? Historische Grüngestaltung als schwieriges Erbe und der heutige Umgang mit diesem"The workshop "Visuelle Skepsis in der Landschaftsarchitektur? Historische Grüngestaltung als schwieriges Erbe und der heutige...Photo: Margit Kern7 November 2024|AnnouncementField Trip to "Sachsenhain“ and Bergen-Belsen MemorialTogether with Prof. Dr. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn from Leibniz University Hannover, several team members visited the “Sachsenhain”...Photo: UHH21 September 2024|ConferenceEnd of Conference: "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature'"Our conference "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature': Greening as Forgetting - Greening as Healing?" took place from 19 to 21 September...Photo: Pablo Carrera Oser/ UNSAM18 July 2024|AnnouncementGuest Scholar joining in SeptemberFellow at the ERC-project in September 2024: Prof. Dr. Carolina Vanegas CarrascoUniversidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos...Archive of current newsProject-Related ActivitiesPhoto: University of York; Mark Woodward9 April 2025|Presentation"'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso" at the Association for Art History’s Annual ConferenceAs part of the panel “More-than-human worlds on the move: Reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in...Photo: University of Amsterdam/ Concordia University8 March 2025|Presentation“Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization?” at “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past”At the workshop “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past” held by the University of Amsterdam (NL) and...Photo: Johanna Spanke28 November 2024|AnnouncementJohanna Spanke receives gold medal at the Deutsche FotobuchpreisJohanna Spanke has been awarded the gold medal in the category of photo theory at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook...Photo: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / CC-BY-SA 4.015 November 2024|PresentationKritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900Magdalena Tonia Füllenbach presents her paper "Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der...Photo: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz Mariordo, Creative Commons14 November 2024|Presentation“Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in JohannesburgCarla Guimaraes Hermann presents her paper “Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors: Denilson Baniwa’s Brasil Terra Indígena (2020)...Photo: Wikimedia Commons14 November 2024|Presentation"At Home with Columbus" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in JohannesburgAt the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg...Photo: Developing Room/ Rutgers University8 November 2024|Presentation"Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization" at Ninth Graduate Student ColloquiumWinona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in...Photo: P. Feuerböther / De Gruyter7 October 2024|Announcement„Photomurals“ by Johanna Spanke nominated for the Deutsche FotobuchpreisCongratulations to Dr. Johanna Spanke – her book "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen...Photo: MSA19 July 2024|Presentation“Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” - MSA 8th Annual ConferenceJohanna Spanke presents her paper “Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” at the Memory Studies...Photo: CIHA24 June 2024|Presentation"Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery" - 36th CIHA World CongressCarla Guimarães Hermann presents the paper “Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery: examples from Rio de Janeiro...Photo: CIHA24 June 2024|ConferencePanel “Patrimonializations” - 36th CIHA World CongressYuning Teng from Universität Hamburg, along with Maria Inez Turazzi from Fluminense Federal University and Hélène Sirven from...Photo: CIHA24 June 2024|Presentation"La Joven de Amajac" - 36th CIHA World CongressJohanna Spanke presents the paper "'La Joven de Amajac': The Patrimonialisation of Mexico’s Pre-Hispanic Heritage and Its...Photo: UHH/Dingler20 June 2024|LectureLecture by Margit Kern at Universität TübingenMargit Kern „Visuelle Skepsis und der Glanz Gottes in der Malerei der Frühen Neuzeit“, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Eberhard Karls...Photo: SARChI, University of Johannesburg8 November 2023|Presentation"The ephemeral as a strategy of intervention" - Conference "Monumental Developments" in JohannesburgJohanna Spanke presents her paper "The ephemeral as a strategy of intervention: Aesthetic reframings of the Columbus Monument in...Photo: Hochschule Hannover26 October 2023|LectureSymposium „Kritik als Haltung und Methode“, Hochschule HannoverMargit Kern presents the paper „Bildliche Kritik und visuelle Skepsis. Parallelen und Divergenzen zweier Konzepte“ at the Kurt...Archive of current news
