In Conversation with Naman Ahuja & Concluding Thoughts

In Conversation with Naman Ahuja & Concluding Thoughts
Webinar des Pitt Rivers Museum im Rahmen des EU-Projekts “Taking Care” (in Englisch)

How can ethnographic and world cultures museums use their collections and galleries as spaces which create active discussion around the impact of humans on the planet, while also highlighting what long-term perspectives can tell us about sustainability for developing positive futures? The project TAKING CARE explores the connections between ethnographic collections and questions regarding the climate crisis, the Anthropocene and issues related to the afterlives of colonialism.

In the final week of the Matters of Care: Museum futures in times of planetary precarity conference series, keynote speaker Naman Ahuja will share thoughts on the decolonisation of museums, the globalisation of art history and issues around the showcasing of difference and the inability to translate one culture into the language of another. He will discuss the complexities of taking ideas of a universal museum and global art history to a non-western audience in conversation with Clare Harris.

Naman Ahuja, Professor of Indian Art and Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

*KEYNOTE* ‘From India IN the World to India AND the World’

Discussant: Clare Harris, Professor of Anthropology, Pitt Rivers Museum