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KUNST AUF LAGERBei der Tagung vom 11.-12. September in Hannover trafen Museumsverantwortliche mit Förderern, Wissenschaftler(inne)n und der Öffentlichkeit für einen Diskurs über die Herausforderungen des Kulturguterhalts zusammen.Was wäre ein Museum ohne seine Sammlung? KUNST AUF LAGER, das Bündnis zur Erschließung und Sicherung von Museumsdepots, …

Paul Thompson (University of Stirling, United Kingdom) held this talk at the symposium "Workers of the World - Exploring global perspectives on labour from the 1950s to the present" as the keynote speaker of session 2, "Labour at the Site of Production: Labour Process, Control, Quality of Work", chaired by Martin Krzywdzinski (Berlin Social Science…

Helen Margetts, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK, held her talk as one of the keynote speakers at the Herrenhausen Conference "Society through the Lens of the Digital" which took place from May 31 till June 2, 2017, in Hanover. At the conference, the experts discussed how the humanities and social sciences deal w…

Der Vortrag von Yasemin Karaka?o?lu wurde auf dem Herrenhäuser Symposium "Umbruch durch Migration? Ein Neustart für die Selbstreflexion in Wissenschaft und Demokratie" gehalten, das vom 16.bis 17. März 2017 im Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover stattfand.Bericht zur VeranstaltungPROGRAMMSektion I: Flucht - Asyl - Zuwanderung: Eine hist…

Der Vortrag von Susanne Baer wurde auf dem Herrenhäuser Symposium "Umbruch durch Migration? Ein Neustart für die Selbstreflexion in Wissenschaft und Demokratie" gehalten, das vom 16.bis 17. März 2017 im Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover stattfand.Bericht zur VeranstaltungPROGRAMMSektion I: Flucht - Asyl - Zuwanderung: Eine historische…

Der Vortrag von Moshe Zimmermann wurde auf dem Herrenhäuser Symposium "Umbruch durch Migration? Ein Neustart für die Selbstreflexion in Wissenschaft und Demokratie" gehalten, das vom 16.bis 17. März 2017 im Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover stattfand.Weitere Informationen und ein Bericht zur Veranstaltung: https://www.volkswagenstiftu…

Der Vortrag von Naika Foroutan wurde auf dem Herrenhäuser Symposium "Umbruch durch Migration? Ein Neustart für die Selbstreflexion in Wissenschaft und Demokratie" gehalten, das vom 16.bis 17. März 2017 im Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover stattfand.Weitere Informationen und ein Bericht zur Veranstaltung: https://www.volkswagenstiftung…

Volkhard Krech is Professor of Religious Studies at Bochum University in Germany and Director of the International Research Consortium on "Dynamics in the History of Religions" as well as of the Center for Religious Studies. He held his talk at the Herrenhausen Conference "Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies" on October 4-6, …

Matthias Koenig is a sociologist of law, professor at the University of Göttingen and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He held his talk at the Herrenhausen Conference "Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies" on October 4-6, 2016, where the challenges of religious pluralization a…

Abdulhamit Kirmizi, Istanbul ?ehir UniversityThe examination of the connections between the Russian Revolution and the “Anatolian Revolution” (as the Turkish war of independence is sometimes called) is exciting, yet understudied. My paper will deal with the intriguing question of how (post-) Ottoman actors responded to and navigated within a new wo…

Klaus Weinhauer, Universität BielefeldGlobally the years roughly between 1910 and the mid 1920s saw multiple and overlapping upheavals. Labor historians, mostly focusing on nation states, have studied strikes and social movements, while others have discussed the revolutionary, social and consumer protests of this phase. What we still need, however,…

David Hopkins, University of GlasgowThe Dada movement (1916-1923) is normally seen as linked to specific locations: Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, Paris and New York. Whilst common anti-war and anti-art sentiments are understood as uniting these centers, Dada activity in each location is customarily defined in terms of distinguishing characteris…

Jie-Hyun Lim, Sogang University, SeoulAsianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transposition of Marxian ideas to non-European countries. When revolution came to East, events contradicted the ideology. The Bolshevik revolution seemed to deny Marx’s famous dictum of ‘the country that is more developed…

Adam Tooze, Columbia UniversityThe violent politics of counter-revolution in the aftermath of World War I are eye-catching. But focusing on them can lead us to underestimate a larger and more broad-based phenomenon of unsettlement and restabilization that operated in the more abstract arena of macroeconomic forces. Between 1919 and the mid-1920s a …

Jörn Leonhard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgWhen the American President Woodrow Wilson developed his vision of a new world order in 1917, his focus on the right of national self-determination, particularly that of small nations, played an almost fundamental role. Against the background of the First World War and the hitherto unknown number of…

Ethnological museums in the 21st century have to embrace their influence on society not only thanks to a thoroughly knowledge of their collection but also by amplifying the civic discourse, accelerating the cultural and social change and contributing to contextual intelligence”. In his talk at the Herrenhausen Symposium "Positioning Ethnological Mu…

Völkerschauen, or human ethnological displays, promised to take visitors “around the world for fifty pennies”, providing a form of popular entertainment in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany while also satisfying deepening European curiosities about exotic peoples and places. For the Samoans – many of high social status – who trave…

Michael Kraus talks at the Herrenhausen Symposium "Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century". He presents a project between indigenous and scientific partners: in 2014, several anthropologists from Germany have invited four guests from Mitú to the ethnological museum in Berlin. The meeting consisted of two parts: a closed workshop and a…

In her talk “From Curiosa to World Culture: what comes next” at the Herrenhausen Symposium "Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century", Adriana Muñoz describes how the Swedish Värlskulturmuseet in Göteborg defines its new role in the Swedish society. She points out that “museums with wholly or partially ethnographical direction must, eve…

Barbara Plankensteiner talks at the Herrenhausen Symposium "Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century" about her experience regarding the restitution of human remains from the Weltmuseum Wien to the Maori community through the official representatives. She contrasts this experience to an initiative called “the Benin Dialogue” that deals …