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• 29 nov 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Promised memory

  Mémoire promise, tourné en 2012, entre les villes de Ouidah, ancien comptoir et port négrier, et Abomey, ancienne capitale du royaume esclavagiste du Danhomé, se veut la chronique de la quête de deux mémoires qui se cherchent, se croisent, font corps et se séparent sans cesse : celle de la traite transatlantique et celle des cultes dits vodun.

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• 17 jan 2013	18 jan 2013	19 jan 2013
  20 jan 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Black Portraiture(s)

  The Black Body in the West

  The city of Paris, as an international cultural hub and a Western metropolis wielding considerable influence over the notions of art and modernity, was deemed the perfect setting for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in a series of conferences that have been hosted by Harvard University and NYU since 2004. Black Portraiture[s] aims to explore the various means of manufacturing and promoting self-representation, as well as the notion of exchange, from the 19th century to the present day in fashion, film, art, and archives.   How are these - positive and negative - images displayed, and how do they define, replicate, and transform representations of the Black body? How and why did the black body become a tradable commodity in the global marketplace and what gives it its legitimacy? And just as importantly, what are the responses given and their implications? Can the representation of the Black body be truly liberating both for those who are identified with its image and for its beholders? Could a deracialisation of the black body take place, thus promoting cultural reunification and fostering reappropriation as well as various forms of expression beyond the limits of race? The Black body, as imagined by the West, has always been fertile ground for observation and debate. Yet the representation and depiction of Black people has often been predicated upon prevailing attitudes on race and sexuality. The conference draws on the ideas and works of both leading and emerging writers, photographers, scholars, artists, curators and filmmakers of our time, and will address the broader issue of Africa in the popular imagination. It is also significant that this project has benefitted from the widest possible collaboration.  

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• 30 avr 2009	07 mai 2009	14 mai 2009
  20 mai 2009	28 mai 2009	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Representation

  En marge. L'histoire de l'art en France

  Interrompu au cours du mois de mars en raison des grèves, notre séminaire de recherche se prolonge aux mois de mai et de juin. Après avoir abordé la question des "gender studies", s'ouvre une deuxième session consacrée aux problèmes épistémologiques posés par les « postcolonial studies ».

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• 31 jan 2008

  01 fév 2008

  Brussels

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Belgique-Congo. Enjeux d'histoire - Enjeux de mémoire

  Des historiens, anthropologues et psychosociologues belges, canadiens, congolais, français, italiens et martiniquais participeront au colloque. Ils vont se pencher sur le rapport fascinant et souvent passionnant entre l’histoire coloniale et la mémoire coloniale.

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