HART0084 Repatriation in the Age of Global Dispossession - indicative weekly topics

HART0084: Repatriation in the Age of Global Dispossession

UCL History of Art, Year 2 BA Advanced Lecture, Autumn 2020; Wednesdays 11am-1pm

Suggested Reading:

• Felwine Sarr and Bénédict Savoy, “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics,” Nov. 2018, pp. 1-60.
• Ariella Azoulay, “Understanding the Migrant Caravan in the Context of Imperial Plunder and Dispossession,” Hyperallergic (2018).
• Podcast: “Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation,” History Talk, Episode 27 Jan 2019.
• Alternate Version (YouTube)
• Transcript of Podcast Discussion

Indictive Weekly Topics:

1. Imperialism, Dispossession, Art, and Repatriation
2. The Universal Survey Museum and Contemporary Contestations
3. The Museum and the Colony
4. Colonial Theft or Cultural Dispossession?
5. Repatriation, Anthropology, and Human Remains
6. Repatriation and Postcolonial Nation-Building
7. Repatriation and the Crisis of Partition
8. Codifying Repatriation and World Heritage
9. The Politics of Repatriation in Times of War and Terror
10. Repatriation, Activism, and Global Contemporary Art
11. Towards a New Relational Ethics? – The Sarr-Savoy Report