Who is IN and Who is OUT? brings together Alma Hunnik, Benjamin Caton, Richard Sandell and Cesare Cuzzola to explore how culture can hold difference, care and justice.
It is an invitation to rethink culture as a space for inclusion, repair and transformation but held with responsibility, creativity and courage.
Culture as a site for dialogue, care and change.
Who is IN and Who is OUT? takes place in the framework of CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues
We warmly invite you to save the date for the public event “Who is IN and who is OUT?” on Thursday, 29 January, 19:00, Herengracht 470, Amsterdam. This onsite event is open to all and will explore themes of social inclusion, – exclusion, and belonging in contemporary Europe.
Meet our speakers:
Prof. Richard Sandell and Dr. Cesare Cuzzola – Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), University of Leicester:
Richard Sandell is Professor in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries. His research and practice, carried out in collaboration with museums, galleries and heritage organisations, explores the potential that museums might play in supporting human rights, social justice and equality. 
Cesare Cuzzola is a Research Associate at RCMG. His research explores the role of material culture in the context of museum projects that seek to address contemporary social inequalities.
Through their collaborative research practice as part of RCMG, Richard and Cesare address a suite of live challenges that wide-ranging cultural institutions in the UK and internationally are grappling with, including: in the context of increasing polarisation, (how) can museums, galleries, archives and heritage be spaces for everyone? What unique roles can culture play in fostering the conditions for equity and inclusion? How might the work of cultural practitioners be understood and advanced as a form of human rights practice?
Alma Hunnik – IHLIA LGBTI Heritage Archive
Alma Hunnik (she/her) works at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, the biggest queer archive of Europe situated in Amsterdam, as an archivist and organiser of public events. She has a bachelor’s degree in gender and postcolonial studies from the University of Utrecht. Specialising in contemporary cultural objects, she did her research master’s in cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her academic work mainly focuses on (queer) representation, affect theory, popular media, and the performing arts. 
Benjamin Caton –Dekoloniale Indonesië Nederland Herdenking
Benjamin Caton (he/him/them) is the initiator and organiser of the Decolonial Indonesian Dutch Commemoration. Furthermore, he is the JEDIS officer (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Safety) at GREENPEACE NL, where he leads both the intersection between social justice & climate justice as the organisation’s DE&I work. He built a non-capitalistic co-housing of 40 houses (for refugees, among others). His work sits at the intersection of grassroots activism, societal reform and decolonial practice.
This event takes place in the framework of the fourth Capacity Building Workshop of CDCD, Amsterdam, January 29th and Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, January 30th.
