is a visiting associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, an associate researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and affiliated scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
European museums are full of stolen goods. Impressive exhibitions of prized artefacts behind glass testify to the extent of colonial robbery. They also evidence the spoils of earlier imperialism, often depicting acts of conquest. How can previous empires genuinely atone for their abuses of power and truly recognize compromised biographies?
