Please find below some video extracts from our Biannual Consortium Meeting event which took place on Friday the 26th of June 2024. It is divided into 5 sections found below. All videos can be found in this Youtube playlist.

Part 1 – introduction by Wayne Modest

Part 2 – Reflections on the Theme by Amber Aranui and Wonu Veys

Part 3 – Case Studies

Part 4 – Plenary Discussion on the Roundtable Sessions

Part 5 – Keynote lecture by Ciraj Rassool

On the 23rd of April, Professor Bernadette Atuahene from the USC Gould School of Law had a conversation with Pressing Matter’s Elsbeth Dekker on Dignity Taking, Dignity Restoration and the Future of Colonial Collections within the framework of Otherwise Property Conversations. The recording of this conversation is available now on youtube and here on this website.

The workshop organized by our PI Birgitte Meyer and Postdoc researcher Ana Rita De Amaral with the Koninkrijk Nederlands Instituut Rome, entitled Missionary Material Assemblages and the Mission of Museums was inspiring and successful. Ana Rita wrote a report on the event here

On Friday the 26^th of April, Dr Laurens de Rooy and Dr Paul Wolf Mitchell gave a talk at Gewina (Belgisch-Nederlands genootschap voor wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis) on human remains in museums. See more information about the event here

On Wednesday, the 24^th of April our second Pressing Matter Quarterly Meeting took place. Many subjects were discussed, such as the key concepts of Pressing Matter and the preparation of the Biannual Consortium. The minutes of the meeting has been sent to all the PI

On Monday, the 15th of April Pressing Matter co-organized a seminar on human/ancestral remains at Pakhuis De Zwijger Amsterdam. Our PI Laurens de Rooy spoke on collections in Museum Vrolik. More information can be found here.

Dr Paul Wolf Mitchell participated in a symposium with scholars concerning museums, race, and reparative justice, particularly around human remains, organized by the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), on Friday, the 12^th of April 2024. See more information about the event here.

Within the context of the exhibition Remix at Museum de Fundatie (20^th of February – 2^nd of June) in which she participates, our artist in residence Aram Lee gave a talk together with 2 other artists of the exhibition on Friday, the 5^th of April at Museum de Fundatie. See more information about the event here.

On Thursday, the 4^th of April the PM team organized a visit to the exhibition Colonialism and Rotterdam at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam. Our senior provenance researcher François Janse van Rensburg contributed to the exhibition by lending some objects from his personal collections. The exhibition is scheduled until the 30^th of November 2024.