VB: Museums, Photographs and the Colonial Past

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Kajsa Hartig

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Hej,

Jag vidarebefordrar här information om ett intressant kommande fotosymposium i England.

 

Vänliga hälsningar
Kajsa Hartig

Nordiska museet

 

 

Dear Colleagues

Attached are the details of our end-of-project symposium on photography, museums and the colonial past.  Please circulate to colleagues and students who might be interested, stick it on your notice boards etc,  and maybe see you there too.

Details of the programme will be available at the end of September.

Best wishes
Elizabeth

Professor Elizabeth Edwards
Director
Photographic History Research Centre
De Montfort University
Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
Portland Building 2.4
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH

e: eedw...@dmu.ac.uk
t: +44 (0)116 257 7670



-----Original Message-----
From: Clare Anderson [mailto:clare.a...@warwick.ac.uk]
Sent: Tue 7/19/2011 6:09 PM
To: Elizabeth Edwards; Viv M. (Dr.) Golding; Sandra Dudley
Subject: Fwd: Researching the Colonial Archive - Second Training Day, 19 September 2011

In case any of your students are interested ..... BW Clare

Begin forwarded message:

> From: kcl - commculture <commc...@kcl.ac.uk>
> Date: 18 July 2011 22:46:39 BST
> To: "Wood, Alison" <aliso...@kcl.ac.uk>
> Subject: Researching the Colonial Archive - Second Training Day, 19 
> September 2011
>
> Dear All,
>
> The second of the Network's Archival Research Training days for PhDs 
> and early career researchers will be held on 19 September at the 
> Natural History Museum, London.
>
> Would you pass this on to students and colleagues you think might be 
> interested?
>
> Very best, Alison
>
> ---
> Researching The Colonial Archive
> Monday 19 September 2011
> Natural History Museum, London
> 10am-5pm
> With Sarah Easterby-Smith (European University Institute), Clare 
> Pettitt (King's College London), Josephine McDonagh (King's College 
> London), Julie Harvey (NHM), Polly Parry (NHM), James Hodgkin (NHM) 
> and Miranda Lowe (NHM)
> (Supported by the Centre for Art and Humanities Research, Natural 
> History Museum, and the Leverhulme Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).
>
> Designed around the excellent collections of the Natural History 
> Museum this event focuses on textual history, visual culture and the 
> methodological issues collection based research might raise: it will 
> also include collection visits and experience with archival 
> materials. We will consider, amongst other things, the material 
> histories of post-colonial texts, reading 'the visual', the idea of 
> the colonial archive and the politics of collecting. Refreshments 
> and lunch will be provided; there will also be a small amount of 
> preparatory reading required. Places will be limited to 15 to enable 
> close access to collection items.
>
> For more information and details on how to apply see:
> http://www.commoditiesandculture.org/events/researching-the-colonial-archive-training-days.html
> (Bursaries are available for travel within the UK)
>
> --
> Alison Wood
> Network Facilitator
> Commodities and Culture Network
> commc...@kcl.ac.uk
> http://www.commoditiesandculture.org/

Dr Clare Anderson
Associate Professor (Reader) & Editor, Journal of Colonialism and 
Colonial History
Department of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 6AL

clare.a...@warwick.ac.uk
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/anderson/

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/

































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