- 16:15 Screening of "Dahomey" by Mati Diop, 2024, 68min, with English subtitles.
Synopsis:
In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?
You can check the trailer here.
- 18:00 Panel discussion: "Diplomacy of Restitution: Issues of knowledge and powers " with panelists:
- Angelo DAN, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations in Geneva
- Didier HOUÉNOUDÉ, professor at the University of Abomey and Acting Deputy Director of the State Ethnographic Collections in Dresden
- Carine Ayélé DURAND, director of the Museum of Ethnography Geneva
- Makenzy ORCEL, novelist and poet, Paris
- Patricia SPYER, professor of Anthropology & Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute
Chaired by Doreen MENDE, professor HEAD Geneva and Director of the Research of the State Art Collections in Dresden, and Grégoire MALLARD professor of Anthropology & Sociology and co-director of the Center for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism, Geneva Graduate Institute.