Visual Pasts, Material Presents, Archival Futures: Postcolonial Temporalities in the Making

Description

This conference aims to bring together current research on visual, material and archival collections and explore the ways in which their materiality is shaped by time and place. Held in museums and archives, objects, natural specimens, human remains, photographs, films, sounds, drawings, documents and more embody the disruption created by missionaries, militaries, colonial officers, scientists, explorers or humble travellers in territories which endured colonisation. Through the act of collecting, classifying, storing and exhibiting, museums, anthropology and imperial politics shaped an ethnographic present in order to dominate colonised peoples, whose own temporalities had no space to exist.

Period	19 May 2025 → 20 May 2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Norwich, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International