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SUMMARY:Panel discussion: "After Restitution. Museums as Archives for New A
 frican Histories"
DESCRIPTION:The world wide debate on the restitution of collections from co
 lonial contexts has long reached Switzerland. It is now gaining new moment
 um from Bern: the Usakos Railway Workers’ Collection – a collection of
  everyday Namibian artefacts appropriated in the context of colonial viole
 nce – is scheduled to be repatriated to Namibia in 2027.\\r\\nRestitutio
 n concerns us all. At this event\, everyone is invited to join the convers
 ation and engage with experts on the practice of returning cultural herita
 ge. The discussion will focus on what happens to collections after restitu
 tion. What opportunities and challenges does it present for the museums th
 at return objects and for the communities of origin that receive them? And
  how can civil society help shape these processes?\\r\\nModerated by Henri
 -Michel Yéré – the event will feature real-time German transcription u
 sing an AI-based solution.\\r\\nThe panel is held in partnership with the 
 University of Bern as part of the research colloquium of the Chair of Mode
 rn History.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>The world wide debate on the restitution of collections from 
 colonial contexts has long reached Switzerland. It is now gaining new mome
 ntum from Bern: the Usakos Railway Workers’ Collection – a collection 
 of everyday Namibian artefacts appropriated in the context of colonial vio
 lence – is scheduled to be repatriated to Namibia in 2027.</p>\n<p>Resti
 tution concerns us all. At this event\, everyone is invited to join the co
 nversation and engage with experts on the practice of returning cultural h
 eritage. The discussion will focus on what happens to collections after re
 stitution. What opportunities and challenges does it present for the museu
 ms that return objects and for the communities of origin that receive them
 ? And how can civil society help shape these processes?</p>\n<p>Moderated 
 by Henri-Michel Yéré – the event will feature real-time German transcr
 iption using an AI-based solution.</p>\n<p>The panel is held in partnershi
 p with the University of Bern as part of the research colloquium of the Ch
 air of Modern History.</p>
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