The latest CAMOC Review – “Unsettling the City: Decolonial Approaches to Urban Memory and Museums” – is a special theme issue exploring how city museums are engaging with the legacies of colonialism embedded in their collections, narratives, and urban contexts.

Please join us on Thursday, March 26, from 17:00-18:30 CET for an online roundtable highlighting decolonisation and city museums.

Contributors to “Unsettling the City” will discuss how city museums address decolonisation, recommendations for managing colonial legacy collections, and what we can learn from the past.

Speakers include:

Paolo Araiza Bolaños, Museologist, Mexico City, Mexico

Christine Conciatori, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Mabafokeng Hoeane, University of South Africa, Pretoria, SA

Suy Lan Hopmann, Stiftung Stadtmuseum, Berlin, Germany

Prachi Joshi, Narrative and interpretation designer, India

Nguye Flora Mutere, Multimedia design and culture researcher, Nairobi, Kenya

Hanna Pennock, ICOM Working Group on Decolonisation, Netherlands

Louisa Nnenna Onuoha, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Lagos, Nigeria

Nynke van der Wal, Stedelijk Museum Kampen, Netherlands

Kahutoi Te Kanawa, Auckland Museum, New Zealand

Hosts: Catherine C. Cole (Edmonton, Alberta), Elka Weinstein (Toronto, Ontario), and Andrea Delaplace (Paris, France)

Click here to register

Click here to download “Unsettling the City” (PDF)

Programme brought to you by CAMOC, ICOM Canada, and the Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM)