This course deals with the Oceania exhibition in the newly opened Berlin
Humboldt Forum. It will have to address some of the institutional
history of Berlin's new mega museum, as well as the more general
challenges of ethnographic 'collections' from a postcolonial
perspective. First and foremost, however, this class seeks to find ways
of telling the complex stories behind select 'objects' on display in
Berlin (and thus to do something that the museum largely fails to do).
After a phase of lectures and collective reading, students in this class
will therefore pursue independent small group research projects on an
'object' of their choice, and present their research toward the end of
the semester.
- Kursleiter*in: Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein