News & Archive9 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 ConferencePhoto: University of York; Mark WoodwardAs part of the panel “More-than-human worlds on the move: Reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in art” Johanna Spanke...28 November 2024|AnnouncementJohanna Spanke receives gold medal at the Deutsche FotobuchpreisPhoto: Johanna SpankeJohanna Spanke has been awarded the gold medal in the category of photo theory at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize) for her...15 November 2024|PresentationKritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900Photo: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / CC-BY-SA 4.0Magdalena Tonia Füllenbach presents her paper "Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900"...14 November 2024|Presentation"At Home with Columbus" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in JohannesburgPhoto: Wikimedia CommonsAt the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg (14-16 November...14 November 2024|Presentation“Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in JohannesburgPhoto: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz Mariordo, Creative CommonsCarla Guimaraes Hermann presents her paper “Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors: Denilson Baniwa’s Brasil Terra Indígena (2020) in São Paulo...8 November 2024|Presentation"Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization" at Ninth Graduate Student ColloquiumPhoto: Winona PawelzikWinona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in Emeka Ogboh’s Work 'At...7 November 2024|AnnouncementField Trip to "Sachsenhain“ and Bergen-Belsen MemorialPhoto: Margit KernTogether with Prof. Dr. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn from Leibniz University Hannover, several team members visited the “Sachsenhain”, a meeting place...7 October 2024|Announcement„Photomurals“ by Johanna Spanke nominated for the Deutsche FotobuchpreisPhoto: P. Feuerböther / De GruyterCongratulations to Dr. Johanna Spanke – her book "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen zwischen Mexiko und...21 September 2024|ConferenceEnd of Conference: "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature'"Photo: UHHOur conference "Difficult Heritage and 'Nature': Greening as Forgetting - Greening as Healing?" took place from 19 to 21 September 2024 at the...19 July 2024|Presentation“Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” - MSA 8th Annual ConferencePhoto: MSAJohanna Spanke presents her paper “Monuments in Motion: Decolonising memory in the exhibition space” at the Memory Studies Association 8th Annual...18 July 2024|AnnouncementGuest Scholar joining in SeptemberPhoto: Pablo Carrera Oser/ UNSAMFellow at the ERC-project in September 2024: Prof. Dr. Carolina Vanegas CarrascoUniversidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires24 June 2024|ConferencePanel “Patrimonializations” - 36th CIHA World CongressPhoto: CIHAYuning Teng from Universität Hamburg, along with Maria Inez Turazzi from Fluminense Federal University and Hélène Sirven from Paris 1 Panthéon...24 June 2024|Presentation"La Joven de Amajac" - 36th CIHA World CongressPhoto: CIHAJohanna Spanke presents the paper "'La Joven de Amajac': The Patrimonialisation of Mexico’s Pre-Hispanic Heritage and Its Monumentalisation in the...24 June 2024|Presentation"Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery" - 36th CIHA World CongressPhoto: CIHACarla Guimarães Hermann presents the paper “Monumentalization of transatlantic memories of slavery: examples from Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon” at the...20 June 2024|LectureLecture by Margit Kern at Universität TübingenPhoto: UHH/DinglerMargit Kern „Visuelle Skepsis und der Glanz Gottes in der Malerei der Frühen Neuzeit“, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen...Show all news