Congratulations to Pia Wiegmink, whose article "German (post)colonialism: Archiving, collecting, exhibiting and repatriating Pacific cultures, a conversation", jointly written with Imelda Miller, Oliver Lueb and Emma Christopher, has just been published in Atlantic Studies.
In Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (2019) Ariella Azoulay highlights how histories of slavery and colonialism and the acquiring, taking, stealing and looting of artefacts from people and communities around the world by Western imperial actors are often two sides of the same coin. This conversation brings together scholars and curators to address these intricate and entangled histories and their legacies in the context of the German presence in the Pacific. Pia Wiegmink, a scholar of transatlantic slavery, interviews Emma Christopher, an Australian historian currently working on a database project to document “blackbirding” in the Pacific, Oliver Lueb, a German curator of an Oceania collection in a German museum, and Imelda Miller, an Australian South Sea Islander curator working with collections and archaeological sites in Queensland, Australia.
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