Netherlands | Conversations on arts from Global Asias in museums
In collaboration with Asia Forum (Annie Jael Kwan, Hammad Nasar, John Tain and Ming Tiampo), the Research Centre for Material Culture is organising the conference De-Imperialising Histories and Blazing Forms 25–26 June 2025 at Balzaal, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
This conference will be the second in a series of gatherings aimed at rethinking global art histories through the expansive intellectual space of the ‘world museum’, which challenges the structures and assumptions of both art history and anthropology through new approaches to material culture.
Building on the 2024 edition, the upcoming conference, tentatively titled ‘De-imperial Histories and Blazing Forms’, seeks to extend Danner’s concept to rethink the writing of (art) histories in, of, and through Global Asias.
The conference will be divided in two days, which will bring focus to the following themes: Connectivities, Making, Value and Spirituality.