The third lecture in our series will feature Professor Wayne Modest in conversation with Professor Laura Van Broekhoven.
Wayne Modest is Director of Content of Wereldmuseum, with locations in Amsterdam, Leiden, and Rotterdam. He is also Professor (by special appointment) of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Laura Van Broekhoven is the Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies, Ethics and Material Culture at the University of Oxford. A fellow of Linacre College, Laura is also associated with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford. Previously, Laura led the curatorial department of the National Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam, Leiden and Berg en Dal) and was a lecturer in archaeology, museum studies and indigenous heritage at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.