BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news395@medienwissenschaft.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260709T110846 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260730 SUMMARY:Workshop on Audiovisual Heritage in East Africa (Nafasi Art Space\, Dar es Salaam\, 30–31 July 2026) DESCRIPTION:The workshop positions provenance as a bilateral and dialogic p rocess of engaging with challenging\, transnational histories. Rather than treating provenance research as a purely institutional or technical exerc ise\, the workshop frames it as an ongoing negotiation aimed at reparative justice. We advocate rethinking provenance from an African perspective\, while centering direct engagement with Indigenous community representative s as a condition for meaningful restitution.\\r\\nSpecial attention is giv en to artistic provenance research as a practice that mobilizes audiovisua l\, curatorial\, digital and creative methods to interrogate colonial arch ives and restitution debates. Situated within a collaborative environment that brings together cultural institutions\, audiovisual collectives\, res earchers\, and community actors\, the workshop highlights how cross-sector partnerships can generate alternative forms of knowledge production and s hared authority. It also asks how public historical discourses can benefit from artistic creations\, sources and dialogues.\\r\\nAnother focus lies on designing digital infrastructures for African visual heritage that fore ground community governance and Indigenous data sovereignty. Digital herit age is thus approached as a space for negotiating access and responsibilit ies.\\r\\nOrganisation: Maxmillian Julius Chuhila\, Mario Schulze\, Alma Simba in cooperation with Ajabu Ajabu\; Project: Research Film Provenanc e\, www.researchfilm.net/provenance [http://www.researchfilm.net/provenanc e] \\r\\nFunding and Support: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA Switzerland\; Swiss National Science Foundation\; Department of History\, University of Dar es Salaam\; Department of Science Studies\, University of Lucerne\; Department of Media Studies\, University of Basel\\r\\nRegist ration:To participate\, please register via this form here [https://forms .gle/99anJ8osewnVEr8p9].\\r\\nPreliminary Programm: \\r\\nWorkshop Day On e\, 30th July 2026\\r\\n09:00-10:30: Preliminaries\\r\\n10:30–12.30: Arc hives & Museums\, Chair: Alma Simba \\r\\nNancy Rushohora (University of Dar es Salaam): Repatriating Knowledge\, Not Just Objects: Photographs as Living Heritage\\r\\nPhilip C.M Maligisu (National Museum of Tanzania): Ch allenges along the Restitution Practices of Tangible and Intangible Cultur al Heritages using Western-centric Theories and Models in Tanzania\\r\\nSa rine Waltenspül (University of Lucerne): Owing Digital Audiovisual Herita ge?\\r\\n13.30–15.30: Research Film Provenance\, Chair: Nancy Rushohora\ \r\\nAlma Simba (University of Giessen): Beyond the Blighted Body (poetic reading with film screening)\\r\\nMaxmillian J. Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)\, Mtechura and Mzee Nghonono (Tinde): Tsetse and Sleeping Sick ness as Articulated by the Local People in Tinde\\r\\nMario Schulze (Unive rsity of Basel)\, Moritz Greiner-Petter (Basel Academy of Art and Design): Multimodal and Multivocal Film Provenance Research\\r\\n16.30–18.30: Fi lm Screening in Cooperation with Ajabu Ajabu\\r\\nJesse Mpango (Ajabu Ajab u\, Dar es Salaam): Introduction\\r\\nFilm Screening: Mkwawa (TZ 2011) by Seko Shamte\\r\\nDiscussion\\r\\n\\r\\nWorkshop Day Two\, Friday\, 31st Ju ly 2026\\r\\n09.00–10.00: Keynote Digital Heritage Africa\, Chair: Sarin e Waltenspül\\r\\nMutanu Kyany’a (Digital Heritage Africa\, Nairobi): P ress Play\, Fast Forward: The Politics of Access and Reparative Justice on Audiovisual Heritage in East Africa\\r\\n10.30–12.30: Complexities in P rovenance Research\, Chair: Maxmillian J. Chuhila\\r\\nMusa Sadock (Univer sity of Dar es Salaam): Nangumi: People’s Voices on Provenance of the Te ndaguru Dinosaurs in Southern Tanzania\\r\\nDominicus Makukula (University of Dar es Salaam): Challenges of Conducting Provenance Research on Cultur al Collections from Tanganyika\\r\\nZuhura Mohamedi (Mkwawa Museum): Contr oversies Before and After the Return of Chief Mkwawa’s Skull and Restora tive Justice\\r\\n\\r\\n14.00–15.30: Roundtable: Archival Material & Cre ative Industries\, Chair: Jesse Mpango\\r\\nCece Mlay (filmmaker\, Dar es Salaam): Filmmakers as Mediums to the Past: Restoring Stolen Communal Memo ries \\r\\nNicholas Calvin Makatobe (filmmaker\, Dar es Salaam): Patching Together Fragmented Realities\\r\\nClaudia Lubao (University Dar es Salaa m): From Musician to Researcher and Back Again: Reflections on Heritage Wo rk in Tanzania\\r\\n\\r\\n16.00–17.30: Film & Digital Restitution\, Chai r: Mario Schulze\\r\\nFilm Screening: Rural Aid Centre Ifakara (TZ\, CH 19 61)\\r\\nDiscussion\\r\\nClosing Remarks X-ALT-DESC:

The workshop positions provenance as a bilateral and dialogic process of engaging with challenging\, transnational histories. Rather th an treating provenance research as a purely institutional or technical exe rcise\, the workshop frames it as an ongoing negotiation aimed at reparati ve justice. We advocate rethinking provenance from an African perspective\ , while centering direct engagement with Indigenous community representati ves as a condition for meaningful restitution.

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Special attention i s given to artistic provenance research as a practice that mobilizes audio visual\, curatorial\, digital and creative methods to interrogate colonial archives and restitution debates. Situated within a collaborative environ ment that brings together cultural institutions\, audiovisual collectives\ , researchers\, and community actors\, the workshop highlights how cross-s ector partnerships can generate alternative forms of knowledge production and shared authority. It also asks how public historical discourses can be nefit from artistic creations\, sources and dialogues.

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Another foc us lies on designing digital infrastructures for African visual heritage t hat foreground community governance and Indigenous data sovereignty. Digit al heritage is thus approached as a space for negotiating access and respo nsibilities.

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Organisation: \;
Maxmillian Julius Chuhila\, Mario Schulze\, Alma Simba in cooperation with Ajabu Aja bu\; \;

Project: \;
Research Film Provenance\, www.researchfilm.net/provenance \;

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Funding and Support: \;
Federal Department of Foreign A ffairs FDFA Switzerland\; Swiss National Science Foundation\; Department o f History\, University of Dar es Salaam\; Department of Science Studies\, University of Lucerne\; Department of Media Studies\, University of Basel< /p>\n

Registration:
To participate\, please regist er via this form \;here.

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Pre liminary Programm: \;

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Workshop Day One\, 30th July 20 26

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09:00-10:30: Preliminaries

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10:30–12.30: Archives & \; Museums\, Chair: Alma Simba \;

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Nancy Rushohora (University of Dar es Salaam): Repatriating Knowledge\, Not Just Objects: Photographs as Living Heritage

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Philip C.M Maligisu (National Museum of Tanzani a): Challenges along the Restitution Practices of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritages using Western-centric Theories and Models in Tanzania\n

Sarine Waltenspül (University of Lucerne): Owing Digital Audiovisu al Heritage?

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13.30–15.30: Research Film Provenance\, Chair : Nancy Rushohora

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Alma Simba (University of Giessen): Beyond the B lighted Body (poetic reading with film screening)

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Maxmillian J. Ch uhila (University of Dar es Salaam)\, Mtechura and Mzee Nghonono (Tinde): Tsetse and Sleeping Sickness as Articulated by the Local People in Tinde\n

Mario Schulze (University of Basel)\, Moritz Greiner-Petter (Basel Academy of Art and Design): Multimodal and Multivocal Film Provenance Rese arch

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16.30–18.30: Film Screening in Cooperation with Ajabu Ajabu

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Jesse Mpango (Ajabu Ajabu\, Dar es Salaam): Introduction

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Film Screening: Mkwawa (TZ 2011) by Seko Shamte

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Discussion\n\n

Workshop Day Two\, Friday\, 31st July 2026

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09.00–10.00: Keynote Digital Heritage Africa\, Chair: Sarine Waltenspül

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Mutan u Kyany’a (Digital Heritage Africa\, Nairobi): Press Play\, Fast Forward : The Politics of Access and Reparative Justice on Audiovisual Heritage in East Africa

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10.30–12.30: Complexities in Provenance Research\, Chair: Maxmillian J. Chuhila

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Musa Sadock (University of Dar es Sal aam): Nangumi: People’s Voices on Provenance of the Tendaguru Dinosaurs in Southern Tanzania

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Dominicus Makukula (University of Dar es Sala am): Challenges of Conducting Provenance Research on Cultural Collections from Tanganyika

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Zuhura Mohamedi (Mkwawa Museum): Controversies Bef ore and After the Return of Chief Mkwawa’s Skull and Restorative Justice

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14.00–15.30: Roundtable: Archival Material &\; Creative In dustries\, Chair: Jesse Mpango

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Cece Mlay (filmmaker\, Dar es Salaa m): Filmmakers as Mediums to the Past: Restoring Stolen Communal Memories& nbsp\;

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Nicholas Calvin Makatobe (filmmaker\, Dar es Salaam): Patch ing Together Fragmented Realities

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Claudia Lubao (University Dar es Salaam): From Musician to Researcher and Back Again: Reflections on Herit age Work in Tanzania

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16.00–17.30: Film &\; Digital Restitut ion\, Chair: Mario Schulze

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Film Screening: Rural Aid Centre Ifakar a (TZ\, CH 1961)

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Discussion

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Closing Remarks

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