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Museums memorialising the slave trade and racial violence in the diaspora
Start: 23/06/2022, 15:00
End: 23/06/2022, 16:00
Contact:Dr Frieslaar - 021 808 2002
Location: MS Teams

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The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a discussion on:

“Museums memorialising the slave trade and racial violence in the diaspora"

Presenters

Prof Anny-Dominique Curtius

Anny-Dominique Curtius is an Associate Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Iowa where she also serves as co-director of the working group “Museum Futures" at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Her interdisciplinary research lies at the crossroads of cultural theory, and the cinematic, visual and performing arts of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa; comparative postcolonial museum studies; and Black Atlantic Ecocriticism. Her work also focuses on the defacement and toppling of the iconography of slavery in the public space. She is the author of two books, Suzanne Césaire. Archéologie littéraire et artistique d'une mémoire empêchée (2020) (Suzanne Césaire. Literary and Artistic Archeology of a Hindered Memory) and Symbioses d'une mémoireManifestations religieuses et littératures de la Caraïbe (2006) (Symbiosis of a Memory: Caribbean Religions and Literatures) as well as numerous articles and book chapters in the aforementioned fields of study. 

Ms Connie Bell

Connie Bell is one of the founding members of Decolonising the Archive (DTA) and the University of Repair. As a consultant, memory worker and cultural producer she explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives through her work. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of London addressing cultural memory and reparations and she is leading the overarching project of building a digital Pan-African Archive via DTA LIVE RADIO.

Moderator:

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar (Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice, Stellenbosch University Museum)

 

Date: Thursday 23 June 2022

Time: 15:00 – 16:00 SAST

Webinar: TEAMS


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IINCOKO EZIVULELEKILEYO

IMyuziyam yeYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch iyakumema kwingxoxo eya kube imalunga nomxholo othi:

“Iimyuziyam ezikhumbula urhwebo ngamakhoboka nogonyamelo ngokobuhlanga kwelimiweyo"

Izithethi

UNjing. Anny-Dominique Curtius

UAnny-Dominique Curtius nguNjingalwazi oliQabane weZifundo ngesiFrentshi kwiYunivesithi yaseIowa apho ekwangumlawuli olihlakani kwiqela elisebenzayo i-“Museum Futures" kwiCenter for Advanced Studies. Uphando lwakhe ngamacandelo awahlukeneyo luphakathi kwengcamango yenkcubeko, nesinema, ubugcisa bemiboniso nemidlalo yeleCaribbean, uLwandlekazi i-Indiya neAfrika eSezantsi kweSahara Esebenzisa isiFrentshi, izifundo zemyuziyazm zokuthelekisa zasemva kobukoloniyali, noHlalutyo lweMekobume noKuwela iAtlaniki kwaBantsundu. Kanti umsebenzi wakhe ukwajolise ekususweni nasekutshatyalalisweni kwemifanekiso yobukhoboka kwiindawo zikawonkewonke. Ungumbhali weencwadi ezimbini, enye ethi Suzanne Césaire. Archéologie littéraire et artistique d'une mémoire empêchée (2020) (Suzanne Césaire. Literary and Artistic Archeology of a Hindered Memory) nethi Symbioses d'une mémoireManifestations religieuses et littératures de la Caraïbe (2006) (Symbiosis of a Memory: Caribbean Religions and Literatures) kwakunye namanqaku aliqela nezahluko zencwadi kweli candelo lophononongo lichazwe ngasentla. 

 

UNkszn Connie Bell

UConnie Bell uphakathi kwabaseki beDecolonising the Archive (DTA) neUniversity of Repair. Njengomnxibelelanisi, umsebenzi ngenkumbulo nomvelisi wezenkcubeko wakhel' umkhanya iindlela zokupheliswa kobukoloniyali nenkumbulo njengobugcisa kwinkumbulo ngomsebenzi wakhe. Sithetha-nje, ungumgqatswa wePhD kwiYunivesithi yaseLondon yaye ujongene nenkumbulo yezenkcubeko nokulungiswa yaye uyakhokela kwiprojekti eyintloko yokwakhiwa kwePan-African Archive yedijithali ngeDTA LIVE RADIO.

 

Umnxibelelanisi:

Gqr Geraldine Frieslaar (UMgcini wezoPhando, iiNgxoxo noBulungisa kwezeNtlalo, kwiMyuziyam yeYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch)

 

Umhla: NgoLwesibini 23 Juni 2022

Ixesha: 15:00 – 16:00 SAST

Iqonga lonxibelelwano nge-intanethi: ngeTEAMS


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