Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland 2024-2025/Programme
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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.
Webinars
editWebinars 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.
Visits
editVisit of the exhibition in Geneva
- Musée d'ethnographie de Genève MEG: Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- Landesmuseum Zurich: colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements
- Museum Rietberg: In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution
- ETH Zurich: Colonial Traces - Collections in Context
- Ethnographic museum University of Zurich: Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- Landesmuseum Zurich: colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements
- Museum Rietberg: In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution
- ETH Zurich: Colonial Traces - Collections in Context
- Ethnographic museum University of Zurich: Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures
Edit-a-thons
editEdit-a-thon
Online 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.