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03/06 10am-4pm: Working with Publishers Workshop

webadmin Resource — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:55:00 GMT

When: 10:00 - 16:00, Wed, 03 Jun '26

Where: Scarman House

25/06 9am-26/06 5pm: GHCC Workshop: Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History

webadmin Resource — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:31:15 GMT

When: 09:00, Thu, 25 Jun '26 - 17:00, Fri, 26 Jun '26

25/06-26/06: GHCC Workshop: Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History

webadmin Resource — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:51:06 GMT

When: Thu, 25 Jun - Fri, 26 Jun '26

19/05 10am-12pm: Caribbean Centre, Work in progress workshop for post graduate students

webadmin Resource — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:16:15 GMT

When: 10:00 - 12:00, Tue, 19 May '26

Where: Room FAB 5.01

05/05 10:30am-5pm: GHCC workshop, 'Does the History of China Need to be Decolonized?'

webadmin Resource — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:45:15 GMT

When: 10:30 - 17:00, Tue, 05 May '26

Where: R0.03/0.04 Ramphal Building

10.30: welcome and coffee

11.00 - 12.00 Professor Chen Hao (Department of History, SJTU), ‘Does the History of China need to be decolonized? An Inquiry into Methodology’

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch for speakers and invited guests

13.30 to 17.00: round-table discussion on decolonizing Chinese History

13.30 – 15.00: short (5-10 min) introductions about ongoing research from participants:

o Jeremy Goh (History, Warwick)

o Chen Fei’er (Warwick & Southeastern University)

o Cheng Huirong (Edinburgh)

o Shi Jingwen (LSE)

o Huang Shengzhe (Law, Warwick)

15.00 – 15.30: tea and cakes

15.30 – 17.00 round-table discussion: ‘Does the History of China need to be decolonized?

o Rachel Silberstein (SOAS)

o Chen Song-Chuan (Warwick)

o Anne Gerritsen (Warwick)

o Stephen McDowall (Edinburgh)

5.30- 6.30 drinks at Scarman

7.00 dinner at Scarman

06/05 4pm-5:30pm: Whose Stories are told by Ethnographic Museums with African collections from Colonial contexts?

webadmin Resource — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:37 GMT

When: 16:00 - 17:30, Wed, 06 May '26

Where: OC1.04

Please join us for the first of our occasional series in Critical Museum Studies on Wednesday 6^th May | 16.00-17.30 | OC 1.04

Whose Stories are told by Ethnographic Museums with African collections from Colonial contexts?

Njabulo Chipangura (Maynooth University, Ireland)

The Manchester Museum which is a part of the University of Manchester holds approximately 35,000 ethnographic collections mostly dispossessed from local communities and ordered and categorized according to geographical regions of Africa, the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. The African collection is the largest with over 15 000 provenanced objects and an estimate of 1500 unprovenanced objects. In this paper – I will look at what it means to relationally care for African collections from colonial context in view of collaborating with and giving access to diaspora African communities as part of decolonisation. An empirical practice of decolonisation informed by notions of relational care and the disobedient museum will be presented drawn from my own practice and positionality having been the curator of this collection between 2022 – 2025.I argue that curating with care is not only a way of work but is a theoretical perspective that challenges structural discrimination, sexism, racism, systematic injustices and colonial legacies in museums. Care is also extended in this discussion to look at what it means to care for each other’s pluriversality of epistemologies and ontologies by subverting epistemicides that are still embedded in museums. I will use examples drawn from an object handling workshop that I hosted at Manchester Museum as part of Africa Day Celebrations in May 2024. The aim of this workshop was to collaborate with communities in Greater Manchester of African heritage to gather new information about objects of African origin in the collection of Manchester Museum. Thereafter, new stories and new meanings were reimagined transcending usual anthropological discourses that traditionally treat African objects as timeless representations of cultures of the “other”. Using this workshop as a contact zone of engagement - I present curating as a space of social care that facilitated dialogue and building of active relationships with diaspora communities.

Respondent: Chao Maina (University of Warwick)

We hope to see you there! The event is open to all, but please email jamie.larkin@warwick.ac.uk if you would like a calendar invite.