News & Activities

Here you can find current news about events and activities from our project “KOSTIMA – Counter-hegemonic Voices in Music Archives”.

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From November 12-14, 2025, a workshop organized by the KOSTIMA project entitled “Shared Heritage and Digital Repatriation” took place at JGU Mainz. The workshop focused…

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On September 18/19, 2025, the status conference of the funding guideline “Networking – Development – Research. Alliance for University Collections II” of the Federal Ministry…

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On June 12, 2025, all three subprojects were given an inspiring insight into a central element of the joint project work: the planned virtual exhibition…

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From May 30 to June 1, 2025, the 37th Swahili Colloquium (Kongamano la Kiswahili la 37, Uhuru na Ubunifu) took place at the University of…

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In March and April 2025, Hauke Dorsch, Antonia Fendt and Nico Nassenstein undertook a four-week research trip to Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda and Kenya. The trip originally…

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On February 17, 2025, the Mainz subproject visited the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. Together with Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator at the Weltkulturen Museum) and Prof….

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From 21-23 November 2024, an internal project workshop took place at the Archive for African Music (AMA) at JGU Mainz. Following the largely completed digitization…

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From November 23-24, 2023, the kick-off meeting of the joint project KOSTIMA took place in Hildesheim and Hanover. On the first day, colleagues from all…