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International Conference “Histories of Anthropology and Restitutions,” Lisbon 13-15 May 2026
Lisbon hosts, from May 13 to 15, 2026, the international conference Histories of Anthropology and Restitutions,a gathering that examines—through the lens of disciplinary history—a topic that has become unavoidable in the fields of heritage and the humanities: restitution. Far from being limited to the return of objects to their places of origin, the conference proposes to think of restitution as a set of processes that also involves knowledge, words, sounds, and images embedded in ethnographic and anthropological collections and archives—and that may produce unforeseen effects and outcomes, not always reducible to the material act of returning.
