Decolonising knowledge in Switzerland 2024-2025/Programme
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. Please note that all events follow the Respectful behavior space policy of Wikimedia CH.
Webinars
[edit]Unless stated otherwise, 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.
Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.
Learn more about the webinar. Watch the unedited recording.
Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia: documenting colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.
"Chimney sweeps and child labour" at the Museum Val Verzasca, a presentation of the museum section by the museum curator Veronica Carmine.
Learn more about the webinar. Watch the unedited recording.
"Autobiographie d’une selle métis" at the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History (Lausanne) a presentation of the exhibition (from the series "Collections invisibles") by the co-curator Claire Brizon.
"Roots", KBH.G / Arma Museum Ubud a presentation by curator Michael Schindhelm in collaboration with curator Yudha Bantono and artists Made Bayak and Gus Dark of the exhibition originally organised in Basel at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, from its new installation at the Arma Museum Ubud in Bali.
Visits
[edit]Visit of the exhibition in Geneva
- 14.00 Musée d'ethnographie de Genève MEG: Remembering. Geneva in the Colonial World
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- 10.00 ETH Zurich: Colonial Traces - Collections in Context
- 14.00 Landesmuseum Zurich: colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements (the museum closes at 17.00)
Visit of the exhibitions in Zurich
- 11.00 Ethnographic museum University of Zurich: Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures
- 14.00 Museum Rietberg: In Dialogue with Benin. Art, Colonialism and Restitution (the museum closes at 17.00)
Edit-a-thons
[edit]Online writing event
Training for GLAMs
[edit]Training for cultural institutions by Diego Haettenschwiler. How to make content from GLAMs available for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and how to edit Wikipedia.