Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland 2024-2025/Programme
Decolonising knowledge organises webinars, training, visits and edit-a-thon, focusing on the research and documentation produced by a series of Swiss museums in 2024-2025 about colonisation, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives. Please note that all events follow the Respectful behavior space policy of Wikimedia CH.
Webinars
editUnless stated otherwise, webinars take place online on the BBB BigBlueButton room Open Science, provided by Wikimedia Italia; they are recorded and released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.
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Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.
"Autobiographie d’une selle métis" at the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History (Lausanne) a presentation of the exhibition (from the series "Collections invisibles") by the co-curator Claire Brizon.
"Roots", KBH.G / Arma Museum Ubud a presentation by curator Michael Schindhelm of the exhibition originally organised in Basel at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, from its new installation at the Arma Museum Ubud in Bali.
Visits
editVisit of the exhibition in Geneva
- 14.00 Musée d'ethnographie de Genève MEG: Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- 10.00 ETH Zurich: Colonial Traces - Collections in Context
- 14.00 Landesmuseum Zurich: colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements (the museum closes at 17.00)
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- 11.00 Ethnographic museum University of Zurich: Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures
- 14.00 Museum Rietberg: In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution (the museum closes at 17.00)
Edit-a-thons
editOnline writing event
Training for GLAMs
editTraining for cultural institutions. How to make content from GLAMs available for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and how to edit Wikipedia.