​​​​​The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a discussion on:

“The restitution of African knowledge and objects"

Dr Laura van Broekhoven (Director, Pitt Rivers Museum)

Dr Van Broekhoven is the director of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. She holds a professorial fellowship at Linacre College, and is associated with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Previously she led the curatorial department of the National Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam, Leiden and Berg en Dal) and was a lecturer in archaeology, museum studies and indigenous heritage at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.

Dr Olusegun Morakinyo (Research associate, Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies, University of Fort Hare)

Dr Morakinyo is a research associate at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies. Previously he was a senior researcher at the Mzala Nxumalo Centre for the Study of South African Society and the Academic coordinator of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies offered by the Robben Island Museum/University of the Western Cape. From 2016 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA) at the University of Fort Hare, and later at the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University (SU), during which time he was awarded a National Research Foundation (NRF) scarce skills postdoctoral fellowship.

Date:                          Tuesday 25 May 2021

Time:                          15:00 SAST

Virtual platform:        MS Teams

Presenters:

Dr Laura van Broekhoven (Director, Pitt Rivers Museum)

Dr Olusegun Morakinyo (Research associate, Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies, University of Fort Hare)

Moderator:

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar (Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice, University Museum)

​Click on the following link to join the dsicussion on 25 May at 15h00 SAST

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