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Dialogues is a discussion series led by the CHASE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership to highlight how the arts and humanities can work alongside STEM fields in addressing some today’s big questions, such as climate justice, migration, and contested pasts.

This event will explore emerging collaborative methods to address key questions about colonial legacies, curatorial practices and the complexities of restitution, asking: 

• What roles have colonial regimes of power and epistemology played in the acquisition and display of artefacts and discourses about their cultures?

• What are the implications of framing restitution as a circulation of objects?

• Can A.I. tools be developed to reveal and analyse structural biases within museum collections?

• How can the impact of restitution be measured?

• How can research help create more inclusive, diverse, and ethically responsible restitution processes that reflect a broad range of perspectives and experiences?

Join the discussion with the panellists:

1. Garance Nyssen, anthropologist and CHASE-funded doctoral researcher at University of East Anglia

2. Luisa Karman, art historian, anthropologist, and CHASE-funded doctoral researcher at SOAS University of London

3. Kristin Hausler, cultural heritage specialist and Dorset Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

4. Mick Grierson, co-investigator for Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage, and research leader at UAL Creative Computing Institute

The panel is moderated by Amy Shakespeare, founder of Routes to Return and AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter.

This is the final event in the CHASE Dialogues series. By providing thought-provoking dialogues on current challenges faced by society, the series showcases the value of the arts and humanities working shoulder to shoulder with other disciplines, fosters collaboration and knowledge exchange in research. These discussions highlight the mutual benefits of conversations beyond conventional arts and humanities research and into collaboration with STEM-related fields, broadening perspectives and considering innovative approaches to a better future. In doing so, the series celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CHASE consortium – for the past decade, CHASE institutions have been making interventions informed by pressing questions and challenges through their ambitious doctoral training.

Previous Dialogues events 

Watch the recordings for CHASE Dialogues on Climate Justice and the Arts (30 October 2024) and Culture and Migration (6 December 2024) on CHASE Knowledge Exchange Hub.