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Larissa Schmid interviewed by SPK-Magazin
IN_CONTEXT project lead Larissa Schmid gave an interview to the magazine of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation about the plans and activities related to the topic of colonial contexts in libraries. Schmid discussed the challenges inherent in digitizing collections from colonial contexts, the role of communities from the global south as well as the successfull […]
Book Presentation – Worlds of Slavery
On Friday, 23 February 2024, the book launch of „Worlds of Slavery“, edited by Paulin Ismard, took place at the Stabi, organised by the Friends of the Berlin State Library. An international team of 70 specialised historians traced the history of slavery for this book: its beginnings in prehistory, its establishment in the ancient civilisations, […]
Digital Information Meeting: Research and Funding Opportunities in Germany
IN_CONTEXT supports the digital meeting of the Network Colonial Contexts in Germany with a presentation about researching information in libraries. The aim of the meeting is to introduce the diverse and heterogeneous structural contexts in Germany, i. e. federalism, private and public funding organizations as well as individual programs that enable project participation or application by […]