National Showing Off and Telling Off: Ethnology, Anthropology and the Humboldt Forum
Friday 1 March 2024, 3.15pm
64 Banbury Road and on Teams
Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt University, Berlin)
This talk focuses on the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, opened fully in 2022, which is widely seen as a highly significant statement about the position and future-orientation of post-unification Germany. Containing, among others, displays from the collections of the Ethnological Museum, the Humboldt Forum also reflects and mobilises certain understandings of ethnology and anthropology – their histories, crimes, capacities and potentials. Through an analysis of these, the talk will also discuss the tensions and dynamics between showing off and telling off that are witnessed in the Humboldt Forum’s making and its resulting displays.
Departmental Seminar Series Hilary Term 2024
3.15pm, Fridays of Weeks 1-8.
In person in the Lecture Room, 64 Banbury Road, and on Teams.
