ASC Seminar: Seminar: Post-colonial cultural relations and the return of art objects

Seminar on Post-colonial cultural relations and the return of art objects: The Netherlands and Indonesia, Belgium and Zaire, and Europe and Nigeria compared. In the 1970s, Indonesia and the Netherlands, and Belgium and Zaire agreed upon new cultural relations, including the transfer of a number of museum items. Both agreements were lauded at the time for being a model for relations between a former coloniser and colony. At present, Nigeria is in discussion with some Western museums about Benin art treasures seized by British soldiers in 1897. So far, processes like these have scarcely been subject of academic research. Speaker: Jos van Beurden. Please register

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