THEFTS EXPOSE BRITISH MUSEUM’S ‘RIDICULOUS’ STANCE ON RETURN OF ARTEFACTS, SAYS MP by David Batty and Mark Brown

"Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, believes the 1963 law preventing the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes should be changed.

The museum has been at the centre of an escalating storm that on Friday led to the resignation of its director, Hartwig Fischer. It followed the revelation that as many as 2,000 items from the museum collection had been found to be “missing, stolen or damaged” and that police were investigating."

#BritishMuseum #Restitution #TheGuardian #UK #Heritage #CulturalHeritage

@academicchatter
@anthropology
@archaeodons
@histodons
@culturalheritage

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/27/thefts-expose-british-museums-ridiculous-stance-on-return-of-artefacts-says-mp

👉 An interesting point of view from Dan Hicks (curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum): "'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/29/the-last-remaining-argument-against-restitution-has-now-been-lost

#RKelly Forced to Forfeit #Royalties to Pay #Victim’s #Restitution
https://consequence.net/2023/08/r-kelly-royalties-restitution/

#Doku-Empfehlung für alle, die sich für Kunst, #Kolonialismus und (eventuelle) #Restitution interessieren.

Viele der "Kunstschätze" sind unbekannter als die Nofretete, und die Reihe führt durch viele europäische Länder und in entsprechend unterschiedliche Teile der Welt.

https://www.3sat.de/kultur/kulturdoku/geraubte-schaetze-nofretete-102.html

Perhaps the most insidious concept that human beings ever invented is the idea of #punishment, the idea that those who have committed some error or #crime "deserve" to be forcibly subjected to #suffering, as if this can somehow make up for the consequences of their errors or crimes.

I'm not talking about material #restitution, I'm talking about #retribution enacted under the guise of a false sense of moral #righteousness.

Per Jordan Fischer, wusa9:

#SENTENCE: Thomas Sibick, of Buffalo, ordered to #serve 50 months in #prison & pay $7,500.79 in #restitution for robbing DC Police Officer #MikeFanone of his badge & radio while he was being assaulted on #Jan6.

#AmyBermanJackson #Justice #DOJ #Law #legal
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/doj-seeks-6-years-in-prison-for-man-who-robbed-officer-mike-fanone-of-badge-radio-thomas-sibick-kyle-young-abluquerque-head-daniel-rodriguez/65-e615c33b-2286-479e-8dca-15d5158bb97e

Posted with little to no comment other than, "Seriously???"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65905923
#restitution

📰 Hoje o @Publico dá destaque ao encontro internacional #TRANSMAT, com uma entrevista à nossa Elisabete Pereira acerca do evento que hoje se iniciou e do projecto homónimo que lhe dá mote:

“Vamos debater, sobretudo, a importância de documentar as colecções não-europeias”

#histodons #HistoryInThePublicSphere #PublicHistory #Museums #Collections #Restitution #BiographyOfObjects #Colonialism #Colecções #Restituição

https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/21/culturaipsilon/noticia/tres-debates-nacionais-descolonizar-museus-2054194

O livro de resumos do Encontro Internacional #TRANSMAT, com o tema "Documentar Colecções Não-Europeia", já está disponível no nosso website.

O encontro tem como palestrantes convidados Nélia Dias (CRIA ISCTE) e Maarten Couttenier (Africa Museum).

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/documentar-coleccoes-naoeuropeias/

#histodons #Museums #Collections #Colonialism #Restitution #Archaeodons #Archaeology #AfricaMuseum

#CallForPapers #Provenienzforschung #Bibliotheken
#Tagung "NS-Raubgut aus dem östlichen Europa in Bibliotheken. Provenienz – Restitution – Forschungsstand" vom 9. bis 10. November in #Regensburg, organisiert vom Institut Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung mit Unterstützung des Deutschen Zentrums Kulturgutverluste. Bewerbungsschluss: 25. Juni 2023.
@histodons @bookstodon
#Osteuropa #EasternEurope #Libraries #Provenienz #Restitution #histodons #bookstodon

https://leibniz-ios.de/wissen-vermitteln/aktuelles/newsdetail/tagung-ns-raubgut

#CallForPapers #Provenienzforschung #Bibliotheken
#Tagung "NS-Raubgut aus dem östlichen Europa in Bibliotheken. Provenienz – Restitution – Forschungsstand" vom 9. bis 10. November in #Regensburg, organisiert vom Institut Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung mit Unterstützung des Deutschen Zentrums Kulturgutverluste. Bewerbungsschluss: 25. Juni 2023.
@histodons @bookstodon
#Osteuropa #EasternEurope #Libraries #Provenienz #Restitution #histodons #bookstodon

https://leibniz-ios.de/wissen-vermitteln/aktuelles/newsdetail/tagung-ns-raubgut

"Germany’s return of sacred Kogi masks to Colombia may have health risks" by Philip Oltermann and Luke Taylor

"“The Kalguakala [masks] are of total importance to us as they are sacred,” said Arregocés Conchacala Zalabata, a representative of the Kogi. “They are not a historical artefact, they are alive. With the masks we perform ceremonies to connect and work with the spirit of the sun, the waters, the mountains and the world’s many species.”

However, researchers warn that many objects in western museums should only be restituted with a serious health warning since they are contaminated with hazardous substances. In the late 19th and early 20th-century objects made of organic substances like wood or leather were habitually sprayed with pesticides to protect them against infestations from wood beetles, clothes moths or silverfish".

#CulturalHeritage #Restitution #History #Museum #Germany #Colombia

@academicchatter
@histodons
@anthropology
@ethnography

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/germanys-return-of-sacred-kogi-masks-to-colombia-may-have-health-risks

Germany fails to fully confront colonial legacy in Tanzania

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-fails-to-fully-confront-colonial-legacy-in-tanzania/a-65862738?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Tanzania #colonialism #colonialhistory #MajiMajiwar #reparations #restitution #Namibia #HereroandNama #genocide #diplomacy #dinosaurs

From the article:

'[...] Holmes said that she couldn't even pay her legal bills, adding, "I have to work for the rest of my life to try to pay for it."'

Good god! Let's all clutch our pearls and gasp in unison at the notion that Elizabeth Holmes might have to work for the rest of her life!

https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-says-she-cant-afford-restitution-2023-6

#ElizabethHolmes #Theranos #bills #restitution #PearlClutching #gasp #unison #work #scammer #convicted #jailed #GoodGod

Ainda estão a decorrer as inscrições para o primeiro encontro TRANSMAT-IN2PAST, com o tema "Documentar Colecções Não-Europeia", que vai ter lugar no Museu Nacional de Etnologia nos dias 22 e 23 de Junho.

Será uma oportunidade para conhecer os resultados do projecto #TRANSMAT, o museu e para reflectir sobre o futuro das colecções museológicas não-europeias.

ℹ️ https://bit.ly/3oCUTLs

#histodons #Museums #Collections #Colonialism #Restitution #Europe #Africa

De-colonize our museums!

"Das Museum #Wiesbaden gibt einen konservierten #Māori-Ahnenschädel an Neuseeland zurück. Um der Würde des Verstorbenen gerecht zu werden, soll der tätowierte menschliche Schädel am Mittag bei einer feierlichen Zeremonie an eine neuseeländische Delegation überreicht werden. Der "Toi Moko", wie der Schädel heißt, befand sich in einer naturkundlichen Sammlung des 19. Jahrhunderts."

https://www.hessenschau.de/morgenticker/pedelec-fahrer-auf-b276-schwerst-verletzt--hessen-am-morgen-die-nachrichten-im-ticker,hessen-am-morgen-mittwoch-722.html#a36003a6-7303-4bdc-9e3a-8d5de6e653df

#Kolonialismus #Restitution

Neue Staffel & neue Folge des #Podcast "Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt":
Nina Zellerhoff & Lutz Fiedler (beide MMZ Potsdam) im Gespräch mit Philipp Graf (Dubnow Institut Leipzig) über das Leben des jüdisch-kommunistischen Juristen Leo Zuckermann. Folge 1 der Staffel "Jüdische Geschichte(n) in der #DDR": https://juedischegeschichtekompakt.podigee.io/45-zuckermann

@histodons @jewishstudies @historikerinnen

#Zeitgeschichte #Exil #Remigration #Restitution #JüdischeGeschichte #JewishHistory #GermanHistory #ContemporaryHistory #GDR

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiterin / Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) im Bereich Provenienzfoschung, E13 TV-L, Vollzeit, teilzeitgeeignet, zunächst befristet bis zum 30.11.2024, Kennwort „NS-Raubgut“ Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel | Bewerbungsfrist: 30.06.2023 https://www.hab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hab-ausschreibung-NS-Raubgut.pdf | https://jobs.openbiblio.eu/stellenangebote/89864/ #openbibliojobs #Bibliotheksgeschichte #Provenienzforschung #Buchgeschichte #Restitution #NS-Raubgut

Nos dias 22 e 23 de Junho, no Museu Nacional de Etnologia, promovemos o primeiro encontroo TRANSMAT-IN2PAST, com o tema "Documentar Colecções Não-Europeia", uma oportunidade para conhecer os resultados do projecto #TRANSMAT e reflectir sobre o futuro das colecções museológicas não-europeias.

ℹ️ https://bit.ly/3oCUTLs

#histodons #Museums #Collections #Colonialism #Restitution

Die Ignoranz der Gegenwart rührt auch her von der nicht-Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit. In Kamerun liegen ca 5000 kamerunische Kulturgegenstände in Museen, im Deutschland mehr als 40000. absurd.
Eine Figur, die Ngonnso, immerhin, tritt bald ihre Reise in die alte Heimat an. Vorher stand sie im Berliner Humboldtforum.

#kolonalismus #rassismus #deutschland #kamerun #aufarbeitung #rückgabe #Restitution

As we celebrate the importance of museums, let's also recognize the urgency of returning stolen cultural artifacts to their rightful owners. It's time for colonial powers to right the wrongs of the past. 🏺🔙🌍 #Restitution #Decolonize #CulturalHeritage #museum #museums