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Re-creating certitude. The aesthetics of history in art and photography collections in a transoceanic perspective

Workshop November 19 2018 on the aesthetics of history in art and photography collections in a transoceanic perspective hosted by Uses of the Past & Global Studies Research Programmes.

Info about event

Time

Monday 19 November 2018,  at 10:00 - 16:00

Location

Nobelparken 1467-316?

10:00: Dr. Natasha Eaton, University College London (UCL): "The vagrant image: Photography and labour in Mauritius"

11:00: Sarojini Lewis, Aarhus University: "Refiguring identity: Traces of Bhojpuri migrants through archival photography in the Tropenmuseum and the Herrnhut Missionary Archive"

12:00: Lunch break

13:00: Dr. Marco Musillo, KunsthistorischesInstitut-Florence: "From the jadeite cabbage to the global colonial museum: Arts in-between cultures"

14:00: Prof. Manuela Ciotti, Aarhus University: "Why do you fall in love? Why do you worship Vishnu and Shiva? How collecting narratives from India challenge western understandings of the material world"

15:00: Prof. Atul Bhalla, Shiv Nadar University (SNU): "The lowest depths: Partition through objects of fictitious togetherness/Fictitious objects of togetherness"

16:00 Reception