Rising from the Ashes — A Convening on Rematriations, Reparations, and Restitutions is a project by the Goethe-Institut London, developed in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin.
It offers an opportunity to recognise the resilience of Indigenous communities that, throughout history, have faced attempts to distort narratives through various forms of epistemicide. In an effort to counter the ramifications of such attempts, the two-day congress at HKW fosters reflections and dialogues that consider the body and its creative manifestations as sites and vehicles of knowledge, and further aims to stimulate critical approaches to protect Indigenous sovereignty. The programme proposes a format that seeks to reunite the sensorial, the affective, the relational, and the discursive, while centring the act of rematriation as a methodology for reframing objecthood as subjecthood in regard to the restitution of cultural heritage. Rematriation, reparation, and restitution constitute the key notions that converge during the convening to address historical injustices.
