4:15pm 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUi718ZBH0c
5:45pm Panel discussion: " Diplomacy of Restitution: Issues of knowledge and powers " with panelists:
Angelo DAN, Ambassador of the Republic of Benin in France, Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin;
Didier HOUÉNOUDÉ, professor at the University of Abomey and Deputy Director of the State Ethnographic Collections in Dresden;
Carine Ayélé DURAND, director of the Museum of Ethnography Geneva;
Makenzy ORCEL, novelist and poet;
Patricia SPYER, professor of Anthropology & Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute.
Chaired by Doreen MENDE, 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 CDHM, Geneva Graduate Institute.