Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Theories of material and visual culture;
- Histories and theories of collecting and display with a focus on ethnographic museums;
- Heritage and Memory (in the Caribbean and in postcolonial Europe);
- Mobility, Migration, displacement;
- Diversity and Social Inclusion,
- Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean
- Race and racism
- Questions of Care
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Trans-Atlantic Platform - Social Innovation (T-AP -SI) Grant - Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation. Together with Dr. Chiara de Cesari (UvA). Other partners include: Prof. Paul Goodwin (University of the Arts London; LPI), Prof. dr. Ming Tiampo (Carleton University), and Prof. dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University).
- Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care - A collaboratice project among ethnographic and world cultures museums across Europe. This project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Project Lead, Weltmuseum Wien.
Teaching
Current Courses:
- Heritage and Public History (BA3 Research Seminar/Seminar)
- Decolonising Europe: History, Memory, Redress
Courses to which I contribute regularly [co-teach]
- MA Curating Arts and Culture
Past Courses
- What Nations Remember: (Difficult) Heritage, Memory and Repair (BA 3)
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Ancillary activities
- Committe Member : Ethnical Code for Museum, Dutch Museums Association
- Member of the Board: Learned Society of the Royal Netherlands Institute for South East Asian and Caribbean Studies
- Editorial Board Member: Small Axe - A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
- Trustee Board Member - The James Henry Green Charitable Trust
Academic qualification
Cultural Studies, PhD, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, Mona Campus, Kingston - 6, Jamaica
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Research output
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Gazing into the Blues: Hope and the archaeology of Black Memory in the work of Iris Kensmil
Modest, W., 2020, Iris kensmil - Blues Before Sunrise. Stel, M. & Huisman, S. (eds.). Bergen: Museum Kranenburgh, (Kranenburgh kunstreeks; vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
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Introduction: Ethnographic Museums and the Double Bind
Modest, W., 2019, Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe. Sidestone PressResearch output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic
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Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe
Modest, W. (ed.), Thomas, N. (ed.), Prlic, D. (ed.) & Augustat, C. (ed.), 2019, Leiden, The Netherlands: Sidestone Press. 226 p.Research output: Book / Report › Book editing › Academic
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A Period of Exhibitions: World’s Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica
Modest, W., Jun 2018, Victorian Jamaica. Duke University Press, p. 523 - 553 30 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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Things are a Changing or Perpetual Return: Horizons of Hope and Justice or Anxiety
Modest, W., Sep 2018, The Art of Being a World Culture Museum: Futures and Lifeways of Ethnographic Museums in Contemporary Europe. Kerber VerslagResearch output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
Activities
- 2 PhD thesis examination
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Sweet Breakaway: An ethnographic study of Aruban calypso music and the narratives of the one happy island.
Wayne Modest (Examiner)
2020Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination
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"Where Randy?" Education, Nationalism, and Playful Imaginations of Belonging on Sint Maarten
Wayne Modest (Examiner)
2019Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination