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Methods

WikiAfrica Hour about Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia

Organiser Donia ElDomiaty, Guest Host Achal Prabhala, with Iolanda Pensa, Sandra Soster, Chantel Edie, Luther King.

WikiAfrica Hour (online), 26 February 2025, English Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.

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Roundtable Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia at Wikimania

Iolanda Pensa, Florence Devouard, Isla Haddow-Flood, Donia ElDomiaty, Achal Prabhala, Sandra Soster, Chantel Edie, Luther King.

Wikimania Nairobi, 8 August 2025, 14:45 - 15.25.

Interrogating our practices, structures, and sources and critically highlighting power dynamics. This roundtable involves current Wikimedia projects and initiatives already focusing on decolonising knowledge, it triggers a broader discussion and collects experiences, examples and recommendations to expand and scale those practices.

Presentation of Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia at Wikimania 2025

Report of the discussion

Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia

Iolanda Pensa, Jonas Lendenmann and roundtable discussion.

January 2025, English Documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives. Presentation of the project Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland.

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Exhibitions

Museum session "Chimney sweeps and child labour" at the Museum Val Verzasca

30 Aprile 2025, English

"Chimney sweeps and child labour" at the Museum Val Verzasca, a presentation of the museum section by the museum curator Veronica Carmine.

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"Autobiographie d’une selle métis" at the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History (Lausanne)

Claire Brizon, co-curator.

May 2025, French Presentation of the exhibition (from the series "Collections invisibles") by the co-curator Claire Brizon.

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"Roots", KBH.G / Arma Museum Ubud

Curator Michael Schindhelm in collaboration with curator Yudha Bantono and artists Made Bayak and Gus Dark.

May 2025, English Presentation of the exhibition originally organised in Basel at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, from its new installation at the Arma Museum Ubud in Bali.

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Background

Open access to cultural heritage: ethical issues

Brigitte Vézina, Creative Commons

June 2023

A recorded webinar presenting the ethical issues faced by cultural institutions when opening cultural heritage.

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Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Cultural Authority in Collections and Data

Jane Anderson and Corrie Roe, Local Contexts; moderator Floriane Morin, Ethnographical museum of Geneva

September 2023, English
A recorded webinar presenting the work of Local Contexts and the issues of indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority in collections and data.

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