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A report on two conservation workshops Michaelle Biddle conducted in Djenne, Mali. The workshop in 2015 was about making lightweight all-in-one conservation boxes. The one in 2017 was a course on how to separate stuck manuscript pages using various humidification techniques. A syllabus for the latter workshop is included.

Traduction "Conservation of sub-Saharan African Manuscripts", The Annual Review of Islam in Africa 2013-2014, 12/2, 61-68

Using some of the concepts from Heidegger's 'The origin of a work of art'

as a foundation, I will argue that every work is a unique and original entity, not

capable of being simulated or repeated by artificial means. A work is bound by the

temporal nature of its own material, as in all forms of matter. The product of

restoration work is ultimately a copy of the original, destroying a work's original

essence of time, material and space. Museums often present works as absolutes

within seemingly timeless walls of illusion. An environment of immortality is often

conveyed, where age …