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This short film by Aksana Khan reflects on how the seismic events of 2020 have impacted the arts, museum and heritage sectors, and what remains to be done.

Centenary Inaugural Lecture by Corinne Fowler. What is at stake in our contemporary response to sensitive history and Britain's colonial legacy, and what are the implications for academic freedom?

Join historian David Olusoga in conversation with Dr Omar Khan for his personal perspective on how we memorialise, teach and write about racism, and why black British history matters.

For the Collections Trust, Errol Francis, Artistic Director and CEO of Culture&, argues that museums must acknowledge the power dynamics at work in collections databases if they are to meet the challenges set out in Culture&'s Black Lives Matter Charter.

In this talk for TEDxKingLincolnBronzeville, Hannah Mason-Macklin shares a new initiative used to decentre whiteness and western values in a recent exhibition of West African objects from the 19th and 20th centuries.

From the Stuart Hall Foundation and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) with speakers Bridget Bryne, Orsod Malik, Ahdaf Soueif, Mohammed Ali, Sado Jirde and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan.

Given at the opening of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, September 2021.

Confronting Britain’s past, including its heritage of colonialism and slavery, is a necessary but uncomfortable national reckoning that needs to take place. William Dalrymple, Priyamvada Gopal, Nana Oforiatta Ayim and Chao Tayiana consider and confront these questions with chair Renée Landell.

A full-length documentary, part of the Living Cultures project coordinated by InsightShare, Oltoilo la Maa (Voice of the Maasai) and Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford in partnership with MAA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Panellists from cities across the UK discussed their respective approaches to acknowledging and redressing the legacy of slavery and its monuments in our urban spaces.

Exploring case studies of relationships between university museums and source communities who are working on the restitution and repatriation of museum objects.

Examining the origins of the word decolonise, what museums and galleries seem to think it means, and if that holds true with its wider meaning.

Focusing on African collections in UK museums and discussing initiatives focused on relationships rather than primarily on objects.

Three institutions formed during periods of colonial expansion, trade and exploitation reflect on efforts to reframe their collections.

Reviewing different approaches to understanding, sharing and democratising collections and institutions to expose the difficult stories behind our major institutions and collections.

A webinar hosted on 19 January 2021, part of 'A Meeting Place: Online Global Discussions for Museum and Gallery Professionals', by the British Council in partnership with ICOM UK and the Museums Association.