Conversation with Felwine Sarr: “Thinking about Restitution from Within”
Sarr, Felwine
Conversation with Felwine Sarr: “Thinking about Restitution from Within” - 2023.
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Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, having previously taught at the University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His academic work focuses on the ecology of knowledge, contemporary African philosophy, economic policy, epistemology, economic anthropology, and the history of religious ideas. In 2018, he was commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron to produce a report on the issue of the restitution of African heritage with Bénédicte Savoy, entitled Restituer le patrimoine africain (Philippe Rey-Éditions du Seuil, 2018). This interview conducted on May 22, 2021 with Christine Douxami, anthropologist at the Institut des mondes africains attempts to highlight both the issues raised by the Sarr-Savoy report and the various possibilities it has opened up for many countries formerly subject to colonization, for Africa in particular, as well as the artistic and aesthetic questions raised by the return, or non-return, of objects.
Conversation with Felwine Sarr: “Thinking about Restitution from Within” - 2023.
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Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, having previously taught at the University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His academic work focuses on the ecology of knowledge, contemporary African philosophy, economic policy, epistemology, economic anthropology, and the history of religious ideas. In 2018, he was commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron to produce a report on the issue of the restitution of African heritage with Bénédicte Savoy, entitled Restituer le patrimoine africain (Philippe Rey-Éditions du Seuil, 2018). This interview conducted on May 22, 2021 with Christine Douxami, anthropologist at the Institut des mondes africains attempts to highlight both the issues raised by the Sarr-Savoy report and the various possibilities it has opened up for many countries formerly subject to colonization, for Africa in particular, as well as the artistic and aesthetic questions raised by the return, or non-return, of objects.
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