Bénédicte Savoy: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2022

Name	Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
Address	Charlotte meisner Clausiusstrasse 59, RZ H 12 Literatur- u. Kulturwiss., Kilche 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Department	Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Relationship	Visiting Professor

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
851-0329-00L	Cultural Extraction. The Transfer of Cultural Heritage from Africa to Europe, 19th-20th Century	3 credits	2V	B. Savoy
Abstract	The seminar offers an insight into the history of the appropriation of Africa's material heritage by European powers between the 1860s and the 1940s.
Learning objective	The seminar pursues two objectives: on the one hand, to inform about the chronology, methods and actors of the vast heritage translocation that took place during the colonial era between the African continent and Europe. On the other hand, in direct contact with archival documents, to analyze the historical sources that allow us to reconstruct this history that has long remained in the shadows.
Content	We will analyze the different stages of the extraction of cultural heritage from Africa for the benefit of European museums, the actors involved, the techniques employed, the nature of the objects moved, but also the use that may have been made of them (or not), in the capitals of Europe. Furthermore, the consequences of these displacements will be discussed, up to the restitution requests of the 1970s-2020s. Part of the seminar will be organized as "investigations" based on real archival documents.