[Kunst Afrikas] Einladung in das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas | Felicity Bodenstein: Returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria: History and Contemporary Strategies (8.11. 18 Uhr c.t., A 320)

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Liebe Studierende, liebe Kolleg*innen, liebe Freund*innen der Abteilung Kunst Afrikas,

im Rahmen des Kolloquiums zur Kunst Afrikas wird am kommenden Dienstag die an der Sorbonne lehrende Kunsthistorikerin Felicity Bodenstein zu Gast sein. Wir laden Sie wieder sehr herzlich zur Teilnahme an Vortrag und anschließender Diskussion ein. Interessierte Gäste sind sehr herzlich willkommen.

Felicity Bodenstein:
Returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria: History and Contemporary Strategies

Zeit: 8. November 2022, 18 Uhr c.t.
Ort: Raum A 320, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

This talk considers the long history of requests for return, restitution, lending and buying back of the so-called Benin bronzes, infamously pillaged in 1897 by the British admiralty and Protectorate forces. It places initial requests made by the Oba of Benin, Akenzua II in the 1930s into relation with the initiative undertaken by the first Nigerian director of antiquities, the British-born Kenneth C. Murray, to buy back some of the most important Benin artworks that came on to the international art market in the 1950s. This long history of return will be used to help better understand the post-colonial efforts for the restitution of the Benin objects which have culminated in Germany's recent promise to return its collections. To close the talk I will also present a project related to the "return" of data related to these collections: https://digital-benin.org/ which will be made public on the 5th of November, 2022.

Bio: https://digital-benin.org/Dr-Felicity-Bodenstein

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The Earl of Plymouth (right) visiting the oba of Benin, Oba Akenzua II Benin City, Nigeria c. 1938
Modern print from glass plate negative Chief S.O. Alonge Collection EEPA 2009-007-0038

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Celia Schmidt
im Namen der Abteilung Kunst Afrikas

Freie Universität Berlin
FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Abteilung Kunst Afrikas
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