REFRAMING THE MUSEUM | Public Lectures: Sumaya Kassim, Matthew Rampley

Name: REFRAMING THE MUSEUM | Public Lectures: Sumaya Kassim, Matthew Rampley
Start: 2025-11-13T15:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-13T17:00:00+01:00
Location: ul. Kredytowa 1, 00-056 Warsaw, Poland

Schedule

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

ul. Kredytowa 1, 00-056 Warsaw, Poland | Warsaw, MZ

➡️ Join us for two lectures accompanying the International Conference “Reframing the Museum. Decolonial Practices in the Context of Central and Eastern Europe”!
🗓 13 November 2025, 15:30-17:00
📍 The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw (Kredytowa 1)
🎟️ Free admission

𝗞𝗲𝘆-𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘆 | 15:30-16:00
⚫️ Why is it still so difficult to talk about colonialism? Museums and identities in contemporary east-central Europe.
Matthew Rampley is a researcher and specialist in the art and architecture of Central Europe from 1800 to 2000. He is based in the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Previously, he was Chair of Art History at the University of Birmingham.
His principal research interests focus on Central European art and visual culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as on art theory and criticism. His main publications include Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity (2000), The Remembrance of Things Past: On Aby M. Warburg (2000), The Vienna School of Art History (2013), The Seductions of Darwin (2017), and Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts (2020).

𝗞𝗲𝘆-𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗺 | 16:00-16:30
⚫️ Love is the Familiar made Strange... Defamiliarising the Museum as a Doorway to Decolonising
Sumaya Kassim is a writer, curator, and editor. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including Dardishi Zine, Rusted Radishes, Middleground, The Good Journal and The Happy Hypocrite. Her nonfiction include the essays ‘Museums are Temples of Whiteness’ (Routledge’s Companion to Decolonizing Art History, 2023) and the widely cited ‘The museum will not be decolonised’ (Media Diversified, 2017). She speaks internationally on heritage, cultural memory, institutions and power, the history of secularism, and art history. She has written for the Sandberg Institute and Art History. Her essay ‘Write, Riot, Rest’ appears in the anthology Cut From the Same Cloth? (Unbound, ed. Sabeena Akhtar, 2021). She is prose editor of Middleground Magazine. She is currently writing two novels and other assorted writing projects.
She is also a songwriter, has produced multiple podcasts, organised literary festivals, has had work exhibited in galleries across the world, and has had many, many day jobs to make it all happen. Her heroes include Talal Asad, Claudia Jones and anyone running an indie bookshop.

After the lectures, participants are invited to join the discussion.
The event will be conducted in English.

🔗 More information about the conference: https://ethnomuseum.pl/blog/international-conference-reframing-the-museum/