Subhadra Das, Writer of Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024), considers how museums are dealing with the challenge to honestly interpret object provenance linked to empire. She questions if museums lie by omission.

#Empire #Eugenics #Genocide #Loot  #Racism #NaturalHistory  #Restitution #Decolonisation #Universities

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Critiquing eugenics

• Nullius In Verba (take no one’s word for it)

• Do museums lie?

• Subhadra’s hopes and fears

• Decolonising museums

• Advice for the next generation of curators

Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @Sub_das (Insta)/ @littlegaudy (X). 

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CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio).

SPONSORS: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation

Recommended resources

Muse-Zine: a playbook for truth-telling in museums (2024), Edited by Yasmin Khan

Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024) by Subhadra Das, Hodder & Stoughton 

‘Nature Read in Black and White: Decolonial Approaches to Natural History Collections’ (2018) by Miranda Lowe and Subhadra Das, NatSCA Journal https://natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/JoNSC-Vol6-DasandLowe2018.pdf