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[PL] Zapraszamy na Międzynarodową Konferencję „Reframing the Museum. Decolonial Practices in the Context of Central and Eastern Europe”.🗓 13–14 listopada 2025 r.
📍 Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie.
🎟️ Wstęp wolny.
Konferencja gromadzi badaczki i badaczy, muzealniczki i muzealników z Polski oraz zagranicy. To przestrzeń do wspólnej refleksji nad dekolonialnymi strategiami i praktykami w muzeach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej – regionu, który dotąd rzadko był obecny w globalnej debacie o dekolonizacji.
W programie znalazły się wystąpienia i dyskusje poświęcone reinterpretacji dziedzictwa, pracy z archiwami i nowym sposobom opowiadania o historii.
Wydarzenie będzie prowadzone w j. angielskim.
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[EN] We are honoured to invite you to the International Conference “Reframing the Museum. Decolonial Practices in the Context of Central and Eastern Europe.”
🗓 13–14 November 2025
📍 The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
🎟️ Free admission
The conference brings together academic researchers and museum professionals from Poland and abroad. It provides a space for collective reflection on decolonial strategies and practices in museums across Central and Eastern Europe – a region that has so far been rarely represented in the global debate on decolonisation.
The programme includes presentations and discussions devoted to the reinterpretation of heritage, work with archives, and new ways of narrating history.
The event will be conducted in English.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝟭𝟯.𝟭𝟭
10:00-11:00 | Registration
11:00-11:30 | Opening Speech Magdalena Wróblewska, PhD
Director of the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
11:30-11:40 | Discussion
➡️ PANEL #1, REFLECTING ON THE COLLECTION
Moderator: Marta Skwirowska, PhD
⚫️ 11:40-12:00 | Piret Koosa, PhD
Estonian National Museum
Heritage, Power, and Advocacy: Finno-Ugric Collections in Shifting Contexts
⚫️ 12:00-12:20 | Matthias Thaden, PhD
Museum Europäischer Kulturen Berlin
Everyday Objects, Extraordinary Contexts: How the Berlin Museum of Ethnology Collected in Occupied Galicia, 1942
⚫️ 12:20–12:40 | Maria Wodzińska, PhD, Joanna Barczuk
The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
On the Borders of the Empires. A Case Study of the Altar of the Hand (Ikegobo) from the Collection of the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
12:40-13:00 | Discussion
➡️ PANEL #2, BEYOND THE MUSEUM
Moderator: Amudena Rutkowska
⚫️ 14:00-14:20 | Piotr Cichocki, PhD
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group, University of Warsaw
Digitalization of Spirits or a Decolonial Paradox: A Case of Cooperation with Marginalized Communities in Northern Malawi
⚫️ 14:20-14:40 | Agnes Dudek
Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw
Toward Ontological Openness: Decolonizing Plant–Human Relations in Iboga Ceremonies
⚫️ 14:40-15:00 | Discussion
➡️ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (13.11)
⚫️ 15:30-16:00 |Keynote Speaker: Matthew Rampley, PhD
Why Is it Still So Difficult to Talk About Colonialism? Museums and Identities in Contemporary East-Central Europe
⚫️ 16:00-16:30 | Keynote Speaker: Sumaya Kassim
Love is the Familiar made Strange... Defamiliarising the Museum as a Doorway to Decolonising
⚫️ 16:30-17:00 Discussion
𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝟭𝟰.𝟭𝟭
⚫️ 09:00-11:30 Guided Tours
➡️ PANEL #3, RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE
Moderator: Katarzyna Flis
⚫️ 12:00-12:20 | Karolina Bukovskytė
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
Reconceptualisation of Collections: A Case Study of the Icon Collection from the Former Museum of Atheism
⚫️ 12:20-12:40 | Yana Hladyr, PhD
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences / Pryazovskyi State Technical University (Mariupol–Dnipro)
Visualization of Museum Decolonization and Museal Cultural Texts in Ukrainian Cultural Media on Instagram as a Manifestation of Catharsis in Ukrainian Art (2022–2025)
⚫️ 12:40-13:00 | Claudia Desile Abraham
Department of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid
Can Museums Be Gardens? Pinacoteca Migrante (2024) as a Case Study
⚫️ 13:00-13:20 | Magda Bodzan, Agnieszka Bułacik, Sara Herczyńska, PhD, and Joanna Roszak, Prof.
Challenging the „Fiedler Gaze”: On Colonialism and the Potential for Change in a Biographical Museum in Small-Town Poland
⚫️ 13:20-13:40 | Discussion
➡️ PANEL #4, RETHINKING THE ARCHIVES
Moderator: Maria Wodzińska, PhD
⚫️ 14:40-15:00 | Agustina Andreoletti
Departments of Art Theory and Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
Reimagining Colonial Archives: The Leaky Archive Project at Cologne’s
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (ONLINE)
⚫️ 15:00-15:20 | Jan Šejbl
National Museum - Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
Changing Role of Photography. The Photographic Collections of the Náprstek Museum in the Context of Decolonization
⚫️ 15:20-15:40 | Michael Falser, PhD Habil.
Institute of European Art History, Heidelberg University
From Swakopmund to Windhoek – or from Krakow to Trieste? Decolonising Imperial Train Infrastructures in Africa and Europe
⚫️ 15:40-16:00 | Discussion
⚫️ 16:00-16:30 | Closing Remarks
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ul. Kredytowa 1, 00-056 Warsaw, Poland, ulica Kredytowa 1, 00-056 Śródmieście, Polska, Warsaw, Poland
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