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

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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.

Wednesday 15 January 2025
Online webinar, 17.30 CET, English

Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.


Visits

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Friday 28 December 2024
Geneva

Visit of the exhibition in Geneva

  • Musée d'ethnographie de Genève MEG: Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World
Friday 17 January 2025
Zurich

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
Saturday 18 January 2025
Zurich

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

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Saturday 18 January 2025
Zurich

Edit-a-thon

February 2025
Online

Online writing event

Training for GLAMs

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TBD 2025
Zurich

Training for cultural institutions. How to make content from GLAMs available for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and how to edit Wikipedia.