How do ethnographic museums deal with temporal categories such as past, present and future? What role does history and memory play within these museums and how do they address their now contested histories of representation. Both in scholarly and popular debates ethnographic museums in the West have been accused of representing “others” as out of time, or as cultures of the past, or lacking contemporaneity. This conference looks critically at this relationship between time and the museum from multiple perspectives. Read more at materialculture.nl

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