Conference Report: "100 Histories of 100 Worlds in one Object", University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

Title: 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in one Object
Author: Mirjam Brusius, Deutsches Historisches Institut London
Media Outlet: ArtHist.net
Publish Date: March 26, 2020

“By shifting the geographical focus to a former colony and choosing Kingston as a venue my hope as the organizer was to find new pathways and avenues to these troubled histories in both a metaphorical but also a physical and material sense. Where are the stories of museums objects presented as seen by people who once used them? Where is indigenous knowledge presented; who is at the centre of museum narratives, and who on their margins? How is knowledge about museum objects informed by colonial collecting practices; and how is this context presented in museums today?”

(See the conference programme here)