The Podcast Mourning the dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

The podcast brings together different histories connected to the mortal remains of people and their violent dislocation during or in the aftermath of colonial rule; their meaning for the remembrance of slavery; their role in anticolonial and postcolonial struggles, memory politics, the undoing of scientific racism and the work of restitution. The podcast focuses on histories connected to the African continent. This collection of histories intends to present them as part of the work of mourning – a mourning that can initiate and strengthen transformation in the present.  

All episodes are available in English and French, and most of them in a third language. You can find the podcast, which was produced in the framework of the exhibition 'Branching Streams - Sketches of Kinship' as 'Mourning the dead' or 'Porter le deuil des morts' on Spotify and Apple podcasts. 

Sophie Schasiepen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of the Western Cape and a curator at the House of Austrian History in Vienna.