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Ateliers Retours & Restitutions #7, 11-12 avril 2025, Fondation Paye, CIUP

Retours, Restitutions.

Quelles recherches, quels récits ? Quelles performances, quelles transmissions ? Allemagne, Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Grèce, France, Sénégal, Suisse

Chercheurs, activistes, artistes, protagonistes des musées et des communautés débattent de l’avenir des musées en Afrique et en Europe.

Fondation Lucien Paye et Fondation Hellénique, Cité internationale universitaire
11 avril 14h-18h et 12 avril, 10h-17h30.

 
affiche atelier retours et restitution 11 et 12 avril 2025

Partenaires : Fondation Lucien Paye, Fondation Suisse, Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), Fondation Hellénique, Institut Historique Allemand, laboratoires Sophiapol (Paris Nanterre), IMAF (IRD) et CEMTI (Paris 8), Comité des résidents de la Fondation Lucien Paye, Programmes de recherche “Retours” (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), programme “Rematriations / Matrimoines” (Fonds Franco-allemand Marc Bloch de Recherche de Provenance).

 
Les “Ateliers Retours et Restitutions” invitent universitaires, activistes, artistes, artisans, protagonistes des musées et des communautés à débattre des questions de retours, de restitutions et d’expositions des collections africaines. Le 11 avril est consacré aux recherches de provenances réalisées par / avec les communautés de départ des biens et restes ancestraux – descendants, artisans, autorités traditionnelles, dont certains seront présents. La matinée du 12 avril porte sur les manières de réinventer les musées en Afrique et en Europe : quelle exposition des biens réclamés ou restitués, quels récits et quelles coopérations, notamment panafricaines ?  L’après-midi, une table ronde présentera l’actualité des publications, expositions et programmes sur ces thématiques. Les ateliers se terminent par une performance artistique.
11 April will be dedicated to research into provenances carried out with the communities from which the ancestral objects and remains originated – descendants, craftspeople and traditional authorities, some of whom will be present. The morning of 12 April will focus on ways of reinventing museums in Africa and Europe: how to exhibit claimed or restituted goods, what stories to tell, how to cooperate, particularly on a pan-African level. In the afternoon, a round table will present programmes and publications on these themes, followed by an artistic performance.

Vendredi 11 avril :
Bouleverser les recherches de provenances

Fondation Paye 14h – 18h

14h00 – Introduction

Daniel Abidjo (CY Cergy Paris Université), Saskia Cousin (Université Paris Nanterre), Didier Houénoudé (Université Abomey-Calavi), Julie Peghini (Université Paris 8)

14h30-16h00 –  Recherches de provenance : travailler avec les premiers concernés

modération : Victor Yélognissè Boton (Université catholique de Madagascar) et Saskia Cousin (Université Paris Nanterre) 

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Vox # 6 : Mamarame Seck, U. Cheikh Anta Diop & IFAN – Retours & Restitutions / Muntu Media / Terroirs.

Entretien avec  Mamarame Seck, linguiste à l’université avec Cheikh Anta Diop,  chercheur à l’IFAN, directeur du Musée Historique de Gorée et membre du  programme collaboratif ReTours et les journalistes de Muntu Media  Critical africanities / The Muntu Institute Foundation. 

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Entretien réalisé à l’Institut Goethe, Yaoundé,  lors des ateliers internationaux : Le retour des choses / The return of things : Objects, archives and creation in time of restitution (22-27 mai 2023),

 

Researches on Returns & Restitutions. Charter of Porto-Novo, Xọgbonu, Ájáshé / Charte de Porto-Novo, Xọgbonu, Ájáshé

Researches on Returns & Restitutions

Charter of  Porto-Novo, Xọgbonu, Ájáshé

(en français ci-dessous / French version below) Pour signer, cliquer ici   / to sign, click here 

Liste des premiers signataires en fin de texte

  Preamble

After decades of mobilization of African communities, countries and diaspora, the restitution of African cultural property is finally effective with the return of 27 properties to Benin and Senegal. Researchers gathered in Benin from January 5 to 11, 2022, to participate in the symposium “Restitution and return of Beninese heritage”, we salute the role of the Republic of Benin in this now irreversible movement. As mobilizations intensify and numerous restitutions are announced, the role of research on these properties, in museums, and/or with communities will be profoundly reconfigured. Hosted at the International Festival of Porto-Novo (FIP), in the heart of a living and inspiring culture, we experimented with this reconfiguration through exchanges with more than thirty communicators and one hundred and fifty participants, including one hundred holders of traditional knowledge, artists and leaders of cultural institutions. Our work focused on the knowledge, memories and rituals associated with different cultural properties, but also on the traditional, contemporary or innovative modalities of their preservation, study and transmission. We have crossed methods and results of our research on things that have already returned, on those that have not left their communities, and on those currently preserved in Western museums. We were struck by the strong synergy of the expressions of the traditional communities, the actors of restitution, the artists and the researchers. The capital city with three toponyms – Porto-Novo, Xogbonu, Ajasè – is the ideal city to affirm the need to examine in our research the plurality of points of view, fields of investigation and languages, without being satisfied with colonial denominations, archives and languages. The research programs we are conducting in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, France, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal share common ethical, theoretical, and methodological issues. Together, we call for a renewal of scientific practices in research on restitution and return. This charter aims to share our commitment to the foundation of a multidisciplinary research field of restitution studies. Restitution studies may focus on : repatriated property, exiled property, and property that never left; the communities that created them, the knowledge and rituals associated with them, the museums, temples, and communities that house or housed them; the artists who create or recreate them; diaspora actions ; the rules, laws, norms and conventions relating to illicit or illegitimate trafficking and property transfers; the history of colonial, missionary and scientific collections and spoliations; the markets for so-called 6 African art and the creative industries concerned (tourism, series, comics, digital applications); (post)colonial museologies, mediation, cultural policies and audiences in both the North and the South; diplomatic issues; the devices and narratives generated by (requests for) restitutions. This charter is supported by researchers, and commits their research. It is also addressed to all those who collaborate, interact, and rely on the work: communities holding knowledge, cultural institutions, tourism operators, artists, economic and political worlds.

The objective of this charter is threefold:

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