Podcast about museum collections and colonial narratives
On September 19, 2023, a well-attended panel discussion on colonial cultural heritage in Western collections was held at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. The conversation built on heritage researcher Christine Hansen's ground-breaking work that focuses perspectives from Australia's Aboriginal people with digital technology and museum work. Now the conversation is released as the Remaking of Knowledge podcast series.
In this series, six international scholars delve into the difficult questions surrounding ethnographic collections and their role in contemporary life. The episodes were recorded live at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg as a round table event where six researchers discussed issues such as how historical collections can shed light on environmental issues and the complexity of the work of decolonizing museum archives and narratives.
- The interest in this has been great and we want to be able to reach a broad international audience with our research results. Releasing this as a podcast will be a way to have an impact in society and reach out with research that deals with colonial narratives and ways to break the colonial barriers in museum collections, says Christine Hansen, cultural heritage researcher at the Department of Historical Studies and the Center for Critical Cultural Heritage Studies (CCHS), University of Gothenburg.
- There is so much knowledge and information encapsulated in the collections that risk being lost unless new questions are put to them, says Anna Bohlin, anthropologist and cultural heritage researcher at the Department of Global Studies and CCHS, University of Gothenburg. What these researchers show is how this can be done, and what happens when we do it.
Listen to the Remaking of Knowledge on the pod catcher of your choice.
Listen to the Remaking of Knowledge on the pod catcher of your choice.
More information on the podcasts website: https://www.gu.se/en/critical-heritage-studies/remaking-of-knowledge-podcast
Participating researchers
- Dr Christine Hansen is the principal investigator of the project Objects of Culture and Science, based at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.
- Dr Mandy Quadrio, artist and Palawa woman connected to her clan Country of Tebrakunna on the far north-east coast of Tasmania.
- Asst Professor Tiffany Shellam, historian at Deakin University.
- Shona Coyne is a Menang/Nyungar woman with cultural connections to Yamatji Country in Western Australia and the Scottish Highlands. Head of the First Nations Collections and Community Engagement team at the National Museum of Australia.
- Susannah Montgomery, Deputy Director and Researcher at the Sustainable Media Lab, Inholland University of Applied Sciences.
- Dr Adriana Muñoz, Curator for the Americas at the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden.
- Dr Anna Bohlin, Associate Professor in Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg and host of the podcast.
