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Diasporic Objects and Persons, Restitution and the Gift
07 November 2019, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Ulrich Tiedau
Location
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IAS Common Ground and IAS Forum005: Wilkins Main BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
You are kindly invited to a public keynote, part of the 13th international conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies ‘Worlding the Low Countries’, organised by UCL Dutch as part of the centenary celebrations of Dutch Studies in the UK:
This presentation takes as its starting point the case of Alexandre Delcommune, one of Leopold II’s best known ‘pioneers’ who at one stage returned home from Congo with a well-known power object (which is now considered one of the Royal Museum for Central Africa’s masterpieces) and the daughter he had with a Congolese woman. It does so in order to analyse how objects and persons were uprooted during the colonial era and transported to Belgium without the permission of their owners and mothers/maternal families respectively and the ways in which diasporic persons have tried to right these wrongs in recent years.
About the Speaker
Bambi Ceuppens
at Africamuseum, Brussels
Bambi Ceuppens is a curator at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Brussels).