Conference Alert: Voiceless Odysseys
Voiceless Odysseys: excavating the unspeakable in enslavement
Thursday 27 September 14.00 – 19.00
2007 offers an opportunity to re-examine how the history of enslavement is both represented and remembered. What is voiced and what is left unspoken in our collective consciousness of enslavement? How do our cultural translations of the past constitute historical legitimacy in the present? This symposium draws together artists and academics to recover hidden histories.
Papers:
Problematic Histories: the slave trade, slavery and emancipation
Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History,
University College London
The Mask. Remembering Slavery, Understanding Trauma
Grada Kilomba, Writer from the West African Islands São Tomé e Príncìpe and
lecturer at the Free University, Berlin
Blighty, Guinea, Dixie
Mary Evans, London-based Nigerian artist working primarily in installation and
intervention and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins
Hawkins and Co.
Kimathi Donkor, London-based artist concerned with the cultural
representation of oppression and resistance
Chaired by Colin Prescod, Chair of the Institute of Race Relations and
Dr David Dibosa, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, University of the Arts,
London
With poetry readings by John Agard
Tickets: £15/£10 Bookings: 020 8312 8560 or bookings@nmm.ac.uk
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, SE10 9NF
Cutty Sark Zone 2 Greenwich Zone 2 Greenwich Pier
Thursday 27 September 14.00 – 19.00
2007 offers an opportunity to re-examine how the history of enslavement is both represented and remembered. What is voiced and what is left unspoken in our collective consciousness of enslavement? How do our cultural translations of the past constitute historical legitimacy in the present? This symposium draws together artists and academics to recover hidden histories.
Papers:
Problematic Histories: the slave trade, slavery and emancipation
Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History,
University College London
The Mask. Remembering Slavery, Understanding Trauma
Grada Kilomba, Writer from the West African Islands São Tomé e Príncìpe and
lecturer at the Free University, Berlin
Blighty, Guinea, Dixie
Mary Evans, London-based Nigerian artist working primarily in installation and
intervention and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins
Hawkins and Co.
Kimathi Donkor, London-based artist concerned with the cultural
representation of oppression and resistance
Chaired by Colin Prescod, Chair of the Institute of Race Relations and
Dr David Dibosa, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, University of the Arts,
London
With poetry readings by John Agard
Tickets: £15/£10 Bookings: 020 8312 8560 or bookings@nmm.ac.uk
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, SE10 9NF
Cutty Sark Zone 2 Greenwich Zone 2 Greenwich Pier
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