Congratulations to our amazing colleague John Oldfield on the publication of his latest monograph. 'The Ties That Bind Us - Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865' was published by Liverpool University Press this week. Click here to read more➡️ mailchi.mp/liverpool/the-…

Missed our Echoes webinar last week ‘Perspectives from the Inside Out’ discussing international #culturalrelations #BLM #Covid_19? You can watch the recording here gotostage.com/channel/0e07d7… Wilberforce Institute with Walter Zampieri, Damien Helly culture Solutions & Andrew Murray

A new platform making space for the voices of activists, artists and academics, engaged in the discussion on racism and decolonization right now. Find the INTERVENTIONS platform here: keywordsechoes.com/interventions/

The registration for our on-line conference Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe (Oct 21-24) is open. Keynote by Erica Lehrer. Wonderful speakers from the region and around the globe! Echoes decolonizingmuseums.pl

Follow Echoes interventions on BLM and among them an essay by our postdoctoral researcher Laura Pozzi on the Italian activist group 'I Sentinelli'. keywordsechoes.com/laura-pozzi-bl…

If you haven't yet signed up for Professor John Oldfield's lecture this Thursday on 'Rethinking British Anti-Slavery' you still have time - just follow the link below. wilberforceinstitute.uk/2020/10/05/ret…

What would it mean to ‘decolonize’ Eastern Europe and why is there so little discussion about the region’s complex historical relations to global colonialism? kritikaifoldrajz.hu/2020/10/18/dec…

‘My own decolonial framework has been labeled as neocolonial’ says Erica Lehrer during her keynote lecture ‘Decolonial Museology as a Traveling Concept: Notes for a Dialogue with East Central Europe'. The conference decolonizingmuseums.pl just started! Echoes

"#Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe" Great conference starting today. Glad to be part of the final panel discussion on Sat. 6:30-8:00pm on "Decolonizing Museums: A Global Perspective" decolonizingmuseums.pl

Today first roundtable led by Nicholas Boston, Karol Radziszewski, Magdalena Wróblewska, discussed the recent revival of the story and image of the jazz musician and WWII resistance soldier of African descent, Ali, in contemporary Warsaw decolonizingmuseum.pl Echoes

Paper session Reframing Europe Galerija 11/07/95: Towards a Decolonial Memorialisation of the Bosnian genocide and the Holocaust speaker Emily Rose Baker #decolonizingmuseumsECE Echoes Gallery 11/07/95

Alexandra Oancă, PhD is chairing now a session entitled "Critical Curating 1: Acting Locally". Among the speakers are Wojciech Szymański, Patrycja Sikora, Barbara Banasik, Justyna Laskowska-Otwinowska and Dr. Magdalena Moskalewicz #decolonizingmuseumsECE Echoes #museums

'To which extent can postcolonial and postcommunist experiences meet when faced with issues of race and identity?' Paper: "Postcolonial and Postcommunist Convergences in Critical Curating: The case of Halka/Haiti" presented by Dr. Magdalena Moskalewicz zacheta.art.pl/en/kolekcja/ka… Echoes

Carine Ayélé Durand, Quinsy Gario, Léuli Eshrāghi, Rado Ištok, Naomi Recollet and Cynthia Schimming discuss now "Diverse Perspectives from Implicated Communities" during roundtable chaired by Erica Lehrer. See: youtube.com/watch?v=6zUJmM… #decolonizingmuseumsECE Echoes #museums

"The archives have stories to tell. We cannot leave them in boxes. We have to decolonize the museums now" says Cynthia Schimming. #decolonizemuseumsECE Echoes cynthia schimming

Paper session Holocaust and Decoloniality raised discussion should we apply a decolonial approach and postcolonial theory on the Holocaust studies? Presentation of Isabel Swakings, Maria Kobielska, Aleksandra Szczepan #decolonizemuseumsECE Echoes Memory Studies @memorystudies.bsky.social

ACTion to End Modern Slavery is our crowdfunding initiative to establish a Justice Hub at the Wilberforce Institute to fight #ModernSlavery and #HumanTrafficking . For more information and details of how you can help us see wilberforceinstitute.uk/2021/03/15/act…

Happy to announce that our article on 'Duality of Decolonizing: Artists' Memory Activism in Warsaw' has been just published with Heritage and Society journal. Echoes tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Don't miss the 'Echoes of Empire, Contemporary Art and Colonial History' conference 27-28 May. echoesofempire.sciencesconf.org #H2020

Make sure to check out a presentation by our Colleague, @CsillaAriese on 'Practicing Decoloniality: Museum Examples to Inspire Cultural Actors' youtube.com/watch?v=7ldXXP…