Jules Rijssen
Jules Rijssen has been working at Imagine IC for 12 years. In his work as a heritage professional, he deals with issues surrounding the methods and ethics of participatory collecting, but also with ideas about intangible heritage and its multiple layers, multiple voices in meaning and collecting practices, the biography and migration history of colonial objects, rituals and traditions, language and, processes of sense of belonging. His work slogan is: ’ I don’t collect stories but people!’
He is also a guest researcher at NL-Lab. Here he conducts research into traces of slavery and colonial history in the Surinamese language Sranan.
He studied Andragogy (with specializations in Adult Education & Public Information) and a very extensive specialization in Cultural Anthropology in particular Demographic Anthropology(Non-Western Demography, Demography of Latin America and the Caribbean) Caribbean Studies; and Philosophy of Language/Argumentation Theory). He studied at the University of Leiden and the University of Amsterdam.
Websites: https://imagineic.nl / https://nl-lab.net/over-nl-lab/wat-is-nl-lab
Panel: DINGE UND SINNE – Von sorgenden Objekten
Foto: Les Adu
