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The third WeberWorldCafé, “Museum, Power, and Identity” took place on June 11, 2015 at the Museen Dahlem in Berlin. It was organized by the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland and&#160;Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, a research program at the&#160;Forum Transregionale Studien&#160;in cooperation with the&#160;Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.&#160;It was curated by&#160;Hannah Baader (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence) and Stefanie Rentsch (Forum Transregionale Studien).&#160;Art historians, curators and artists discussed the implications of exhibiting non-European art and the question what stories the objects in museum collections can tell today.Final Presentation of the table hosts: Identity, Language and Museum: Dr. des. Britta Hochkirchen (Universität Bielefeld), Dr. Nabila Oulebsir (University of Poitiers) Cultural Heritage, Belonging and Ownership: Dr. Sophie Engelhardt (Mitarbeiterin der Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien), Prof. Dr. Kavita Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Decolonizing Knowledge – Decolonizing Aesthetics: PD Dr. Paola Ivanov (Ethnological Museum Berlin), Prof. Dr. Wendy Shaw (Freie Universität Berlin) The Practice of Curating: Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck (Universität Leipzig), Menno Fitski (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) Object Biographies and Theory of Things: Dr. des. Verena Rodatus (Ethnological Museum Berlin), Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) Ritual and Performance: Prof. Dr. Mathias Alubafi (Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria), Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels (Universität Heidelberg) Artistic Intervention: Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne (Kunsthochschule Kassel), Prof. Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann (Kunsthochschule Kassel) The Archive and the Unconscious: Dr. Mirjam Brusius (Oxford University), Monika Pessler (Sigmund Freud Museum Wien)For more information visit the WWC Blog