Museum Decolonisation and the Restitution of Cultural Heritage, Race and Resistance Presents Dan Hicks
Friday 14 May 2021, 2.15pm
Online
Dan Hicks will speak in conversation about the ongoing debate surrounding the decolonisation of the 'Western' museum and the restitution of African cultural heritage. The conversation would seek to examine the progress of these conversations.
Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Dan works on the material and visual culture of the human past, up to and including the modern, colonial, contemporary and digital world, and on the history of Archaeology, Anthropology, Art and Architecture. He recently published a book in 2020 called 'The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution'.
