Dr. Julia Binter

Function

Research Associate (Zentralarchiv)

Institution

Zentralarchiv

Contact

j.binter[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Focus

• Provenance Research into collections from colonial contexts at the Ethnologische Museum
  Website on provenance research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Lead of the collaborative research and exhibition project "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures" on the collections from Namibia at the Ethnologisches Museum
  "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures"
• Development of a research project on missionary collections at the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art
• Further research interests: postcolonial theory, historical anthropology, critical museology, heritage studies, multimodal research
  Julia Binter auf Academia.edu

Vita

Since 11/2019	Provenance researcher, Zentralarchiv
12/2018 until 10/2019	Research associate in the collaborative research project on collections from Namibia at the Ethnologisches Museum
10/2013 until 01/2020	DPhil Student in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford DPhil Thesis: African Cosmopolitanism and the Atlantic. Trade, Imperial Contact and Relating to the Past in the Niger Delta (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries) Viva Voce passed without corrections
04/2016 until 10/2017	Curatorial Fellow, "International Museum", Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunsthalle Bremen: Researching the history and collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen and its colonial entanglements; curating the exhibition and publishing the edited volume "The Blind Spot. Bremen, Colonialism and Art"
06/2010 until 09/2013	Assistant Curator, Africa Collections, Weltmuseum Wien: Researching African history, material culture and arts, co-curating the new permanent exhibitions on colonialism, migration and history of science, supporting temporary exhibitions, e.g. "African Lace"
04/2013 until 02/2014	Curatorial Advisor, Secession, Vienna, exhibition "The Vanishing Middle Class" by contemporary artist Lisl Ponger, a critical reflection on the traditions of ethnographic displays and the ramifications of neoliberalism on the global middle class
Since 10/2009	External Lecturer, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, courses on visual anthropology, anthropology of globalisation, postcolonial theory, historical anthropology, critical museology
10/2010 until 02/2012	External Lecturer, Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, courses on documentary film, globalisation studies and postcolonial theory
05/2010	Film Jury Member, Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, May 2010. Awarding ethnographic films, Student Award 2010
11/2009 until 05/2010	Film Festival Curator, Ethnocineca - Ethnographic and Documentary Filmfest Vienna, Austria

Membership

• Founding member of the interdisciplinare network Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH), The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
• Member of the German Anthropological Association (GAA)
• Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
• Member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUEAS)
• Member of the International Council of Museum (ICOM)
• Mitglied der African Studies Association of the UK (ASA UK)

Publications

• Julia Binter, Christine Howald, Ilja Labischinski, Birgit Sporleder und Kristin Weber-Sinn (eds.): macht II beziehungen. Ein Begleitheft zur Provenienzforschung in den Dauerausstellungen des Ethnologischen Museums und des Museums für Asiatische Kunst im Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2021.
• Julia Binter und Golda Ha-Eiros: "Man kann die Zukunft nicht ohne Vergangenheit denken. Dialogische Reflexionen über das kooperative Forschungsprojekt ‘Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures’ ", in: Playbook Klimakultur. Strategien für einen nachhaltigen Kulturwandel, Wien, 2021.
• Julia Binter, Jonathan Fine und Larissa Förster: "Historische Forschung und Kreative Praktiken. Ein Kooperationsprojekt zu Objekten aus Namibia im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin“, Provenienz und Forschung 02/2020: 46-51.
• Julia Binter and Jonathan Fine: „Eure Konzepte versus meine Philosophie“ – Cynthia Schimmings künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit den Sammlungen aus Namibia”, Baessler-Archiv, Band 66/2020: 179-188.
• Julia Binter: "Becoming Imperial. The Politicization of the Gift in Atlantic Africa,” in: Material Relations. On Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond, Philipp Schorch and Martin Saxer (eds.), UCL Press, 2020, pp. 53-71.
• „Julia Binter: "Beyond Exhibiting the Experience of Empire? Challenging Chronotopes in the Museum,” Third Text, 2019, 33:4-5, 575-593, DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2019.1651510.
• Julia Binter (ed.): The Blind Spot. Bremen, Colonialism and Art. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2017.
• Julia Binter: „Unruly Voices in the Museum. Multisensory engagement with disquieting histories,” The Senses and Society 9(2), 2014: 342-360. DOI: 10.2752/174589314X14023847039674 (reprinted in Michael Bull und Les Back (eds.) The Auditory Culture Reader, Bloomsbury: New York, 2015)
• Julia Binter: "Vermittler zwischen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Ethnographische Museen im Spannungsfeld von Orten der Repräsentation und 'glokalen”' Kontaktzonen, in: Ethnohistorie. Rekonstruktion und Kulturkritik. Eine Einführung. Werner Zips and Karl Wernhart (eds.), Promedia Verlag, 2013.
• Julia Binter: “"Radioglaz and the Global City. Possibilities and Constraints of Experimental Montage”, in: Transcultural Montage, Rane Willerslev and Christian Suhr (eds.), New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp. 183-197.
• J. Binter u. Arash T. Riahi: "Exile Family Movie (1994-2006). Das Politische im Privaten oder Herstellungsstrategien von Öffentlichkeit im Dokumentarfilm”, in: Produktionen des Politischen in neueren deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilmen, A. Basaran, J. B. Köhne, K. Sabo (eds.), Wien: Mandelbau, 2013.
• Julia Binter: “Globalization, Representation and Postcolonial Critique. Austrian documentary film auteurs”' take on globalism”, in: Global Studies. Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture, Hans Belting, Jacob Birken, Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel (eds.), Ostfildern: Hatje-Cantz, 2011, pp. 96-109.

Related links

• Provenance Research, Zentralarchiv, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Twitter account: Postcolonial Provenance Research Dahlem
• Moments of Unrest. On the Re-activation of Colonial Collections, in the exhibition Transition Exhibition at the Kunsthaus Dahlem, with Agustina Andreoletti (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne) and Julia Binter (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Moderation: A
• Julia Binter über die Namibia-Ausstellung im Humboldt Forum, WDR 3, Mosaik, 2021
• We are not showing original artifacts. How cooperation with partners from Namibia has influenced the exhibition at the Humboldt Forum, an interview with Julia Binter.
• Julia Binter: Biografien der Objekte: "Okadina". Von Frauenfreundschaften und königlichen Geschenken, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Blog "Museum and the City", 2019.
• Colonialism, Art, and Culture: Collaborative Research with Namibian Colleagues at the Ethnologisches Museum, Interview with Hertha Bukassa, Golda Ha-Eiros, Jonathan Fine, and Julia Binter, L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung
• Swantje Karich: Der neue Weg. Als erstes Kunstmuseum seziert die Kunsthalle Bremen ihre Kolonialgeschichte – und schafft damit einen Präzedenzfall, Die Welt, 2017
• Cordula Weißköppel: Blind Spots and Asterisks in the Subtitle Reactions to the Exhibition “Bremen and Art in the Colonial Era," boasblog, 2017.
• Celebrating the History and Cultural Heritage of the Itsekiri Kingdom The Nanna Olomu Centenary at the National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, Museum Blog, 2016.