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Pressing Matter Winter School

When: 13-24 January 2025


Where: Wereldmuseum Leiden, the Netherlands
Open to: Indigenous early career professionals
Covered by Pressing Matter: Round-trip travel to Leiden, accommodation in Leiden, and a
modest per diem

The Management Team and Consortium partners of Pressing Matter are pleased to announce
the upcoming Winter School in January 2025 on restitution research and practices open to
Indigenous early career professionals working in museums, art institutions, or universities in
countries outside of Europe. The aim of the Winter School is twofold: to have Indigenous people
help shape the future of restitution and to facilitate to the building of global networks of
Indigenous scholars, curators and community practitioners around questions of restitution. The
small-scale winter school, limited to 12 participants from different continents, will take place at
the Wereldmuseum and other relevant sites in the Netherlands, and will run for two weeks.
Participants have access to the multiple (museum) collections of partners in the Pressing
Matter consortium.* The program will consist of sessions on key concepts within restitution
work, collection visits, lectures by specialists in the field, and research on specific objects. The
Winter School is discussion-oriented and encourages active involvement from all participants.
Before coming to the Netherlands, some preparatory work will be required.

How to apply?
Send a short motivation letter (max. 500 words) or video (max. 3 minutes) why you would like to
participate in the Winter School and what you hope to gain from the experience as well as a
track-record of previous experiences (this might take the form of a CV but does not have to).

Please send your application before 15 July 2024 to winterschool@wereldmuseum.nl

Questions?
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have:
winterschool@wereldmuseum.nl

About Pressing Matter


Pressing Matter is a four-year international research program about colonial legacies in
museums, financed by the Dutch National Science Agenda (NWA) and coordinated from the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. One of the main partners is Wereldmuseum (National Museum of
World Cultures). Pressing Matter investigates the potentialities of ‘colonial objects’ to support
societal reconciliation with the colonial past and its afterlives, and to deal with conflicting
claims by different stakeholders for these objects within museums. The project will connect
fundamental theories of valuation and property to postcolonial debates on heritage to these
societal debates and aims to develop and test, first, new theoretical models of value and
ownership and, second, new forms of return that address but move beyond current approaches
to heritage restitution, while developing a theory of object potentialities grounded in the
entangled, multipolar histories in which colonial objects were collected, kept and made
meaningful.

* The Pressing Matter partners are Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Wereldmuseum, Museum Bronbeek, Museum Vrolik,
Rijksmuseum, Utrecht University Museum, University Museum Groningen, Foundation Academic Heritage, and NIOD
Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Societal partners are Imagine IC, The Black Archives, HAPIN Papua
Support Foundation, the Rijksakademie, Framer Framed, the Peace Palace Library, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the
Netherlands, and DutchCulture.

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