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title: "Too much stuff?"
date: 2019-10-22
author: "Susanne Witzgall"
categories:
  - name: "Lecture series 2019/20/21"
    url: "https://www.adbk.de/lecture-series-2019-20-21.md"
---

# Too much stuff?

**Sharon Macdonald** | 03.12.2019

  

 **Sharon Macdonald** is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she founded and directs CARMAH – the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage. A principal investigator on the Excellence cluster *Matters of Activity*, she also directs the project *Making Differences* – a multi-researcher ethnography of museum developments in Berlin. Her fascination with questions of excess can be seen in her book *Memorylands* (Routledge, 2014), which explores the implications of the turn to such extensive cultural remembering in Europe, as well as the simultaneous forgetting that this memory phenomenon may hide or even encourage. How both museums and people in their homes decide what to keep from the excessive number of things that might be retained for the future is the focus of the *Profusion* theme that Macdonald directed in the recently completed *Heritage Futures* project, from which a book is forthcoming.


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