"This is not simply another colloquium about African photography within the field of visual studies. It is concerned with the the way histories are written or assembled, and the materials used to narrate or analyse the past of the African continent, and the relationships between them. The field of African history is usually dominated by texts and oral-based accounts. When we ask what images (particularly photographs) do to the constitution of pastness and how it is narrated, this opens another kind of discussion. Fundamentally this is about the way photographs sit in uneasy and ambiguous relation to other materials. They organise time and space differently. “Photographs change everything”. What analytical opportunities do these insights open to us? One issue the workshop engages therefore is the disruption of photographs when brought into conversation with other historical materials."
The CHR and the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory invites papers for On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives: International Workshop on Visual History & Theory (Cape Town, 27-28 September 2018). Find out more here: ow.ly/mMQ230l1lGd ... See MoreSee Less
LECTURE: African Centre for Cities, School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics, UCT and CHR Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities are hosting Rahul Mehrotra of RMA Architects on 31 July 2018, at 16:00 for a lecture entitled "Soft Thresholds".
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