CH8 IP and Restitution

Sunoikisis Digital Cultural Heritage, Spring 2021

Session 8. Intellectual Property and heritage restitution

Thursday Mar 11, 16:00 UK = 17:00 CET

Convenors: Douglas McCarthy (Europeana), Mathilde Pavis (Exeter)

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Session outline

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Seminar readings

For discussion in this thread

• (Two open access titles will be chosen from the list below. Please add suggestions below, not here.)

Further Reading

• Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy (2018). "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics." Available: https://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf (Sarr-Savoy Report)
• Mathilde Pavis & Andrea Wallace (2019). "Response to the 2018 Sarr-Savoy Report: Statement on Intellectual Property Rights and Open Access relevant to the digitization and restitution of African Cultural Heritage and associated materials." Available: https://zenodo.org/record/2620597
• Exell, K., & Rico, T. (2013). "There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other problematic histories." World Archaeology, 45(4), 670-685. Available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2013.852069
• Usama Gad (2019). "Decolonizing the Troubled Archive of Egyptian Papyri" in Everyday in Orientalism. Available: https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/decolonizing-papyrology/
• Indigitization: http://www.indigitization.ca/
• Mark, D. M., & Turk, A. G. (2003, September). Landscape categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, environment, and language. In International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (pp. 28-45). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Available: https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/116/801/landscape_categories_in_yindjibarndi_ontology_environment_and_language.pdf
• MCA Chicago’s Coyote initiative https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/using-coyote-to-describe-the-world/
• Puawai Cairns (2018). "Decolonisation: We aren’t going to save you." Center for the Future Of Museums Dec 17, 2018. Available: https://www.aam-us.org/2018/12/17/decolonisation-we-arent-going-to-save-you/
• Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012). “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1.1 (2012), 1–40. Available: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/staff-profiles/data/docs/fjcollins.pdf

Other resources

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Exercise

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