Deadline: 17 March 2025
The Moving Objects, Mobilising Culture Fellowship Programme enables researchers and heritage practitioners from formerly colonised countries to access and conduct research on (collections of) objects – whether defined as cultural, historical, ancestral, art or otherwise – which are currently (lost) in the Netherlands, as well as on related archives and documentation.
This fellowship is intended for researchers from formerly colonised countries – including heritage practitioners, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, artists, journalists, and/or cultural activists – with an interest in (lost) collections or objects from those countries or regions that are kept in the Netherlands.
The fellows are invited to actively use, reflect on and engage with these collections, but are also encouraged to explore and (re-)establish connections with related communities, collections and sites in the country of origin or other countries. Fellows are encouraged to follow queries regarding the social histories and valuation of objects, in relation to or beyond questions of restitution, and to seek for the signification of objects and their trajectories in space and time, beyond the framings of heritage institutions or national histories.
The Fellowship is designed to enable selected candidates to use their stay in the Netherlands to prepare, develop or realise autonomous research agendas, that may or may not lead to restitution requests by countries of origin, and to explore opportunities for innovative and societally relevant research on the social life of moving objects in the context of broader debates about the history, nature, and future of heritage.
Duration
- The duration of the fellowships is five months each.
Eligibility Criteria
- The fellowships will be awarded to researchers (selected amongst historians, archaeologists, social scientists, heritage experts, artists, journalists, and/or cultural activists) based in formerly colonised countries with collections in the Netherlands.
Application Requirements
- An application consists of:
- Curriculum Vitae and list of publications, works or products.
- Plan of activities to be carried out during the fellowship, max 500 words.
- An outline of objects or collections in the Netherlands (and possibly abroad) to be researched, max 500 words.
- Reflections on how this research relates to agenda’s, needs and questions in the country of origin, max 500 words.
- Reflections on how this research may help in finding new local or supra-local histories that go beyond dominant frames of heritage institutions or states, max 500 words.
For more information, visit NIAS.
