From 2023, CRIA's research group "Practices and Politics of Culture”, and particularly its Working Group on Restitution and Reparation, holds monthly seminars on the theme of restitution, including various related topics such as: reparation, decolonisation, the history of anthropology, museology, resignification, collaborative methodologies, healing practices, knowledge transfer, new historical narratives, and regimes and praxis of access, ownership, data management and digitisation of collections and archives. The workshops also address the plurality of issues associated with the diversity of cultural, national and transnational contexts. 

The workshops consist of discussion meetings with experts and other agents with experience in these areas, preceded by debate sessions, open to the CRIA and IN2PAST community, on scientific articles or other texts related to the topics covered. Unlike the more conventional format practiced in the academic context, the Workshops on Restitution and Reparation have an intimate nature, with a view to building an internal work of learning, knowledge and affectation based on the materials discussed. Therefore, we request a prior notification to the coordinators of the research group “Practices and Politics of Culture” from anyone wishing to participate in the sessions.

Sessions
Open Restitution Africa ORA - Apresentação pública de Molemo Moiloa
Whose heritage is it? When socio-politics undermine the legal prescripts: The case of South Africa’s fossil heritage
Restituição de documentos e políticas para instituições de memória: alguns pontos a partir do Arquivo Kamayurá
Retrieving Ethnographic Archives in Australia and Beyond: A Conversation with Jessica De Largy Healy