DHC Lecture by Bénédicte Savoy

Art historian from Technische Universität Berlin to speak on January 10 at Freie Universität on "Out of Africa. Wie afrikanische Objekte in unsere Museen kamen" No 005/2019 from Jan 08, 2019 On January 10, 2019, art historian Bénédicte Savoy will give a lecture at Freie Universität on the issue of how various items from Africa reached museums of the Western world during European colonialization. A researcher at Technische Universität Berlin and the Collège de France in Paris, Savoy will give a DHC Lecture organized by the Dahlem Humanities Center of Freie Universität. The event is public, and admission free. Registration is not required. When the great European colonization began in Africa in the last third of the 19th century, the era of universal museums also began in Europe. At the same time, new technologies (railways, steamboats) were developed that enabled the mass transportation of goods and, at the same time, cultural goods.